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Old 03-10-2013, 09:22 PM
Skippy Skippy is offline
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The special nut was locked in accordance with the procedure. The loosening happened because I didn't get one of the bearing races seated all the way. Initially I was using a 24" pry bar to tighten the bearings, but bent it. On the third try I found a 4 foot length of 2x4 that I used to finally get the thing in spec and presumably fully seated.

The procedure I used:

PeachPartsWiki: Replacing the Rear Wheel Bearings
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