Yes. That trick can take out the play and prevent the inner race from spinning on the spindle. A professional method would be to knurl the shaft. Dennis. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Neil N Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2016 2:22 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: {front} wheel bearings on an '88 Westy I think you mentioned this before Dennis, but would making 3 equal spaced punch marks at spindle where bearing inner race seats help? Or have I misunderstood what is meant here? Neil. On 5/27/16, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> More concerning is that most of these spindles now have enough wear on > them that the outer bearing is not a tight fit.
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