novicebuilder
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| posted on 3/5/14 at 05:55 PM |
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Rear drive assembly on Haynes roadster - advice please
I am assembling my (donor sierra) rear drive on my Haynes roadster and I wonder if the sequence I have done things in will matter?
I fitted the differential and the rear wishbones, upright and shocks. I then fitted the (push in) drive shafts and gently slid the drive flange over
the end and bolted it through the drum brake back-plate to the upright. I had replaced all the bearings and it all slid together easily.
Now I am fitting the rear hub carrier and I just noticed in the Sierra book it says to tap the drive flange over the drive shaft with the hub carrier
first, 'to centralise the bearings', before installing the drive shafts. Eeeek! my drive flange is bolted and lock-tighted into place.
I have tapped on the hub carrier almost all the way and then used the Hub nut to push it home. I notice there is still a 1mm gap between the hub
carrier and drive flag and it hasn't settled into the recessed out edge of the drive flange. The hub nut is pretty tight but not fully torqued
up and there are three threads visible beyond the hub nut. My concern is that maybe what I have done has not pushed the assembly together
completely?
I could take it all apart again, if essential; but have now used the locking hub nut once so can't use again(?). Or am I over reacting.
Grateful for advice from those who know better.
Thanks
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avagolen
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| posted on 3/5/14 at 08:45 PM |
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When you say the nut is pretty tight, how tight is that?
The nut should be 'Very tight' (over 200 ft/lbs if I remember correctly) when completely tight not much will get in its way.
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ashg
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| posted on 4/5/14 at 07:41 AM |
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it will be fine. as long as you pressed the bearing races in to the carrier correctly then you have nothing to worry about as they are taper bearing
and will centralise themselves.
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novicebuilder
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| posted on 4/5/14 at 08:58 AM |
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Thanks Ash. Thats a relief. I am happy the bearings were pressed in well. The hub assembly rotates smoothly and it all feels right.
I have torqued it about halfway but my pry bar is bending so I can't fully torque up to 250nm. I thought I would finally tighten the hub nuts
when the car is on the ground with wheels on. Is that OK?
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