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Old 05-28-2008, 08:51 PM   #1
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Original. I lended a guy a spacer at the track and I think I put the left side's spacer on the right side (I had extra ones from my ebay specials). They appear to be different. I tightened the axle down and it pressed the spacer through the inner bearing ring jones and cracked it. It was proly a combo of me using the wrong spacer and over-tightening my axle nut, I don't know. I'm gonna look up the torque requirements on that bitch. Lesson learned.
reminds me to check ebay for a torque wrench...
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Old 05-28-2008, 08:55 PM   #2
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reminds me to check ebay for a torque wrench...
I saw one at Autozone for 30 bucks. Proly not the best but it's 30 fucking bucks and it'll get me close to the correct setting.

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you just gonna replace that one or do them both since you'll have the wheel off anyways?
Only one's broken. If it aint broke...
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Old 05-28-2008, 08:57 PM   #3
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just wonder'n... not sure how often you'd replace a wheel bearing anyhow under normal conditions...
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Old 05-28-2008, 09:02 PM   #4
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just wonder'n... not sure how often you'd replace a wheel bearing anyhow under normal conditions...
A long time. I'm only replacing mine because I fucked up putting the wheel on. I had 19.5k miles on my 04 and it was no problem.
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glad it was something simple!
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Old 05-28-2008, 10:23 PM   #6
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glad it was something simple!
Me too, man. Thought something was royaly fucked up.

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turned out the stealer that put my m3 on put the spacers on the wrong side and i had been running it for about 5k like that, wheeler ftw
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Old 05-28-2008, 08:58 PM   #8
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I saw one at Autozone for 30 bucks. Proly not the best but it's 30 fucking bucks and it'll get me close to the correct setting.
gotta be better than my "one turn two turn three turn..." method. prolly get one even cheaper on ewhorebay.
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