Thanks Joe, appreciate the link as well!
Those rings you linked seem nice since I don't think they'd rely on having to have the screw sit down inside the divot on the axle which may or may not be milled in the proper place for the axle to be even.
I removed the old rings, got lucky and found 2 rings out of the 4 they sent me that actually had the threads tapped properly.
Reinstalled, no more crooked ring, so it must've been due to poorly tapped thread on the old ring.
The rings still aren't perfectly pressed up against the bearings but are quite close within a mil or so.
Everything seems to rotate pretty good now, will finally try to start assembling the trike. Fingers crossed.
Will update
p.s. I feel bad for the people who buy this and have a bike shop/department store assemble it
Last edited by trikeBoomer; 10-08-21 at 01:26 PM.