new drive shaft axle?

[cannondale27]

Mine has also never run so smooth since welding and turning.

 

[Sevey]

How? Well, its a bit like chucking a narrow piece up in a three jaw chuck in the lathe. You need to rotate the shaft while tightening up the wedge bolt on to the bearing a bit at a time, so the bearing does not end up cocked on the shaft. This will allow the shaft to expand where its supposed to while letting the bearing true itself up onto the shaft as it goes around. You want to make the wedge the last thing you do after everything else is bolted down in the suspension and circlips on the shafts on both ends as well, so all the tension and side force is not causing bind in the bearings. This will allow it to run true and with no side force on the bearings and such.

Knapp,
With the skid out, and track hanging, how do you manage to rotate the shaft to help the bearing find its sweet spot before tightening the wedge.
MS

 

[swampcat]

Push track up in tunnel, prop with a board, bungi cords, anything. Have a couple buds over, give them beer and have them hold it outta the way for you.. Wont take that long once youre to the point of tightening.

 

[KnappAttack]

Knapp,
With the skid out, and track hanging, how do you manage to rotate the shaft to help the bearing find its sweet spot before tightening the wedge.
MS

You don’t and you shouldn’t. Like I said earlier, the suspension should be bolted in and everything tight so it is normalized prior to torquing down the wedge. This has always been the last thing you Doo even on the old eccentric bearing lock bearings. Suspension bolted in and buttoned up.

The wedge is the last thing you do!

 

[Sevey]

How? Well, its a bit like chucking a narrow piece up in a three jaw chuck in the lathe. You need to rotate the shaft while tightening up the wedge bolt on to the bearing a bit at a time, so the bearing does not end up cocked on the shaft. This will allow the shaft to expand where its supposed to while letting the bearing true itself up onto the shaft as it goes around. You want to make the wedge the last thing you do after everything else is bolted down in the suspension and circlips on the shafts on both ends as well, so all the tension and side force is not causing bind in the bearings. This will allow it to run true and with no side force on the bearings and such.

Knapp,
With the skid out, and track hanging, how do you manage to rotate the shaft to help the bearing find its sweet spot before tightening the wedge.
MS

 

[Sevey]

Thanks
Appreciate the sequence
Ms