Hi Again, Guys
Working on reassembling a star hub, which I haven't done in many years, so something has me stumped.
After reassembling the left side (only) I find that the hub inner sleeve is completely bound up tight and will not spin. My rollers and bearing cage are liberally greased, and everything is in the correct sequence.
The inner sleeve turns freely until I insert the cork grease seal. Once the cork is in there, the sleeve will neither turn nor move from side to side.
I use the word "insert" loosely here, as in fact it takes about ten minutes of hand forcing, cursing, and finally considerable pressure from the side of a screwdriver blade to get that cork seal seated, and it seems like it's way too big. At that point, even before putting in the outer washer and snap ring, the hub inner sleeve will no longer move at all. No rotation, and no side to side movement.
That doesn't seem correct to me, but maybe I'm mistaken and forgetting something. I think, however, that I just have a bum set of cork seals (aftermarket stuff, of course).
With everything disassembled, I can slide the cork seal over the end of the hub inner sleeve and it's tight, but not to the point of preventing turning it, so I'm thinking the problem is that the outside diameter of the cork seal is oversize and needs to be shaved down.
Can somebody help me out here?
John
Working on reassembling a star hub, which I haven't done in many years, so something has me stumped.
After reassembling the left side (only) I find that the hub inner sleeve is completely bound up tight and will not spin. My rollers and bearing cage are liberally greased, and everything is in the correct sequence.
The inner sleeve turns freely until I insert the cork grease seal. Once the cork is in there, the sleeve will neither turn nor move from side to side.
I use the word "insert" loosely here, as in fact it takes about ten minutes of hand forcing, cursing, and finally considerable pressure from the side of a screwdriver blade to get that cork seal seated, and it seems like it's way too big. At that point, even before putting in the outer washer and snap ring, the hub inner sleeve will no longer move at all. No rotation, and no side to side movement.
That doesn't seem correct to me, but maybe I'm mistaken and forgetting something. I think, however, that I just have a bum set of cork seals (aftermarket stuff, of course).
With everything disassembled, I can slide the cork seal over the end of the hub inner sleeve and it's tight, but not to the point of preventing turning it, so I'm thinking the problem is that the outside diameter of the cork seal is oversize and needs to be shaved down.
Can somebody help me out here?
John
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