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Originally Posted by Old Henry
Squeak is gone. Lapping that axle and hub smoothed both right out for a nice tight fit. Another problem was that the threads on the axle were bunged where the nut really needed to tighten so even when it was tight the hub wasn't. An extra washer fixed that up.
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Not sure that I can wrap my head around how that works. First you say that lapping gave you "a nice tight fit". Then you indicate that when the nut was "tight" on the "bunged" threads, "the hub wasn't".
So, you're essentially saying that you tightened the nut to around 200 ft. lbs. on the bunged threads portion and the hub was loose? Then, you loosened the nut, slipped an extra washer on, tightened the nut BACK to 200-ish and all was well? What REALLY happened, Craig? Did you really torque to 200? Quite frankly, those threads on that axle don't look very healthy. DD