Today I did the rear brakes in the BII, decided to check the fronts since I just got the thing a few weeks ago. Took off the passenger front tire, set it aside.
Removed the locking hub/cover thing there and of course its packed with about 3 metric tons of grease. Nothing death defying just yet.
I was cleaning out some of the grease and when I grabbed the splined end of the axle (the part that goes in the locking hub) it moves...up and down....about an inch and a half or more.
Seems like a lot of play, but I dont know the first thing about the d28 (or any other really) axle. So is this normal or is the axle bearing (or some other bearing) in need of replacement? Thanks for any suggestions, I'm off tomorrow so depending on what you guys say is wrong here, I may be spending the day replacing bearings and other random whatnottery
Thanks, Ron
Removed the locking hub/cover thing there and of course its packed with about 3 metric tons of grease. Nothing death defying just yet.
I was cleaning out some of the grease and when I grabbed the splined end of the axle (the part that goes in the locking hub) it moves...up and down....about an inch and a half or more.
Seems like a lot of play, but I dont know the first thing about the d28 (or any other really) axle. So is this normal or is the axle bearing (or some other bearing) in need of replacement? Thanks for any suggestions, I'm off tomorrow so depending on what you guys say is wrong here, I may be spending the day replacing bearings and other random whatnottery
Thanks, Ron