Check out my axle!

[MtnEX]

Yesterday I was standing behind my EX and for some reason this spot of sunlight on the ground under it caught my eye.... As I began to focus in on it, something on my axle caught my eye....
THREADS SHOWING....

WTF????.... how do I go about fixing this and how'd it happen?

[bean2080]

i hope thats normal because mines the same way :huh

[leasureryan]

lol.....seriously???

you will see alot of guys wraping the axle in electical tape...this way the threads don't get goofed up....otherwise...it's normal. Haven't you ever change carrier bearing, or anything?

[MtnEX]

Nah... surely that should be snug against the brake rotor... no?

[justin1022]

o no! mine to.. ha there supost to be like that.. i cant really explain how it owrks it just gets snuged up agaenst it but those are left hadn threads so the nut goes the oposite way i think? then revealing the threads. and they have to be left hand because the axle rotaed the other way so this way it cant really come loose.

[MtnEX]

Well, I'm new to the bike so I wouldn't know...

I was down there inspecting once I saw that... does your rotor have a little bit of play too? (left/right)

[justin1022]

left right no. thats loose so pull out the pipe wreanches and tighten that lock nut up just remeber it is left hand threaded. mine goes back andforth a bit though. not left to right though.

[lilyamaharacer4]

your rotor should only have a little bit of slop and it should only be forwards and backwards

[MtnEX]

Funny... it doesn't look this way in the pictures in the factory service manual. You can't see threads... looks like it's against the rotor.

Best I can tell from the manual there is a locking ring to the right of the nuts?... towards the right tire? So I would tighten it in that direction?

I guess it's hard to understand how it works until you take it apart and put it together once.

[bean2080]

just to be sure that is normal for threads to be showing like that correct?

[blaaze416]

threads are supposed to show....

[wykyd450R]

100% normal. The big locknut is suppose to be out towards the wheel. There is a "c ring" under that large nut. When you tighten it out towards the wheel, the nut gets against the c ring, and pushes the threaded collar inwards towards the rotor hub, which inturns presses the whole unit together, making everything tight.

Originally posted by wykyd450R
100% normal. The big locknut is suppose to be out towards the wheel. There is a "c ring" under that large nut. When you tighten it out towards the wheel, the nut gets against the c ring, and pushes the threaded collar inwards towards the rotor hub, which inturns presses the whole unit together, making everything tight.

pm'd you. let me know what you wanted to do.

[MtnEX]

Originally posted by wykyd450R
100% normal. The big locknut is suppose to be out towards the wheel. There is a "c ring" under that large nut. When you tighten it out towards the wheel, the nut gets against the c ring, and pushes the threaded collar inwards towards the rotor hub, which inturns presses the whole unit together, making everything tight.

Excellent explaination... THANKS... I can see how that works... makes sense.


My largest wrenches are too small to deal with it though...

[blaaze416]

i went to harbour freight tools and got an 18 inch adjustable crescent style wrench for 10 bucks. works great to bust 'em nuts!!

uhh..huh-huh, 'bust nuts'.....huh-huh....

[krt400ex]

Originally posted by MtnEX
Nah... surely that should be snug against the brake rotor... no?


no. it is right where it is supposed to be.

[MtnEX]

Originally posted by blaaze416
i went to harbour freight tools and got an 18 inch adjustable crescent style wrench for 10 bucks. works great to bust 'em nuts!!

uhh..huh-huh, 'bust nuts'.....huh-huh....


huh-huh... huh-huh.... ummmm kool