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Old December 8th 2004, 04:10
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I have just made the 2 5mm spacers and inserted them behind the bearing seats. Whne tightened up there is still play, as if the bearings are loose. It appears that the spacers need to be a bit bigger then 5mm, I am going to check today, so will beable to report back.
You are right John.I made them 0,5mm higher en the problem was gone!!
I masured it up and the Hub had to go 11mm up.

Then you can make a bracet for the brakes of 6mm. and bold it on to your spindle!!

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but which material usinf for space the bearing ??? aluminium?
I used Iron because of the size of the spacers, There not that big. My meaning was that Aluminuim is too weak for those sizes!!
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Old December 10th 2004, 08:24
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1mm!

Any update on these conversions?
Sorry if I got it wrong with the bearing spacing difference... whats 1mm between friends

Seriously though... good work..


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Old December 10th 2004, 09:23
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Any update on these conversions?
Sorry if I got it wrong with the bearing spacing difference... whats 1mm between friends

Seriously though... good work..


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It could be a difference between the wheel on properly or lossing the wheel on the highway
Hope to post pictures next week on how i dit it.
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