Reply With QuoteYes, a new axle should be an easy remedy, re-intall with the right torque procedure thats in the manual and you should be fine.
Please, don't scare meOriginally Posted by TPEHAK
First of all i will buy new axle and we will see what will be the effect...
Yes, a new axle should be an easy remedy, re-intall with the right torque procedure thats in the manual and you should be fine.
Lukasz do yourself a favor and don't listen to TEABAG he is an idiot.
Guys,
Today once again i disassembled wheel and checked everything. Frankly speaking i'm little confused because axle don't look on stretched. When i putting axle into swingarm without wheel, dimension of the axle looks ok. Both side of the axle are inside of the swingarm. Please look on following video:
https://youtu.be/N4d1IQkRkTw
Issue is starting when i'm tryting to install wheel. When i set the axle centered in swingarm like in first video then i have a little gap between left bearing and swingarm. When i try to tight axle to the first resistance then left side of the axle is coming out from the swingarm. Please look on the next video:
https://youtu.be/pwYKe-bEeW0
Once again i checked wheel. Bearings rotating without any resist and everything looks fine:
https://youtu.be/mytKokGRqZw
What do You think about it? Any another ideas? Still the first thing that You suggest is to change axle?
Look at this....
The axle tip goes out not too much for me. I would ignore it.
@34nineteen, to be honest from this angle i'm not sure for 100% but for me it looks like You don't have this issue. Am i right?
your axle is clearly bent. all the questions in the world and continuation of this thread won't straighten it. do you even realize what an important role it plays? apparently not. it centers the wheel assembly....it pre-loads the left and right inner races to the hub spacer...it acts as a fixture for the hub to rotate around....it centers the caliper in relationship to the rotor.
do as you wish. ride at your own peril.
Last edited by user_deleted; 05-24-2018 at 02:55 AM.
Maybe not bent, maybe stretched? Put ruler on the axle and see if it bent or straight. It might be bent if the spacer was not perfectly centered and collapsed on one side so when you tightened the axle it was pushed on one side of the flange and bent.
Does the wheel presented on the videos have new bearings and new spacer? If so the spacing between the bearings should be correct. So there are two possible situations causing this: stretched axle or squished swingarm bushing. Or both. Or the parts (the swingarm and the axle) were slightly different initially. I feel the axle should be OK, because of this is steel axle. But the swingarm bushing might be squished under load because of this is aluminum. I'm actually surprised you did not strip the swingarm threads.
But if the axle is bent or stretched it means it passed point of yield and the axle strength likely will be significantly lower (in very few cases such plastic deformation can increase strength, so I would assume it reduced axle strength) and it may fail after some cycles during riding.
Squished swingarm bushing is not such dangerous as damaged axle. If axle is deformed you have to replace it because of it can crack during riding or set some misalignment on bearings and cause accelerated wear on them. If the swingarm bushing is squished or even cracked it will likely stay safe because of the the axle still has support and it is pinched and will not rotate or shift.
Last edited by TPEHAK; 05-24-2018 at 03:25 AM.
Heres a whole list of them for under $20....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/C0290-1AK-G....c100005.m1851
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