<VV> Front Wheel Bearing Adjustment

[Ron]

The shop manual clearly says 100 lbs-IN!  You did 12 times that so I'd 
assume that the bearing and hub need to be replaced at the least.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NICK GIER" <gier.1 at osu.edu>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 2:36 PM
Subject: <VV> Front Wheel Bearing Adjustment


>
> So I was looking through the shop manual for my 65 Monza in the suspension 
> section and I came across the adjustment of the Front Wheel Bearing 
> section on page 3-2. It said to tighten the adjusting nut to 100 lbs. and 
> that improperly adjusted bearings can cause the car to shimmy and wander 
> which mine does real bad. So I popped the dust cover off the left wheel 
> and took off the retaining ring and apparently the adjustment nut was only 
> on finger tight. So I started to tighten the nut with my torque wrench but 
> the brake drum got real hard to turn before I even came close to 100 ft. 
> lbs. So what is the proper way to tighten the adjusting nut?? I'm going to 
> adjust the steering box next because there is a lot of play in the 
> steering wheel. Thanks for any help.
>
> Nick
> 65 Monza
> 63 Spyder
>
>


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