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Old 12-17-09, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by operator
100% wrong

Play in the hub means exactly that. Play. It could be a loose cone adjustment. Your routine experience with crap wheels has biased you. Even a wheel with a bent axle will have a tight/loose spot unless is just utterly destroyed in there. Even if the cones are pitted, they'd have to be extremely pitted to affect the final hub adjustment in an overhaul. It is not an ideal situation but telling the OP that it's extremely likely he'll have to replace nearly all his parts on a hub based one *one* symptom is just bad advice and at best ignorant.
Ok, since you weren't listening, operator, a loose cone adjustment can produce pitted cones because it greatly accelerates wear. If you don't know that, then you shouldn't be calling other people ignorant.

Whether the cones are loose because the axle bent, or because someone like you assembled or serviced the bike and left them loose, it doesn't bode well for the cones.

How about that, everyone. The guy doesn't know you gotta take the play out of a cup and cone ball bearing to keep it from wearing out, and he goes around calling other people ignorant.

Last edited by garage sale GT; 12-17-09 at 02:08 PM.
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