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Maybe after I finish this

Effii gets rebuilt

Needed to adjust the wheel bearings before we head of to Flinders Ranges end of next month, so thought I'd do this at the same time.



No...

YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Don't blame me if your wheel falls off, your bearing seizes, etc.

I have not included torques etc as you should have a workshop manual to look up the correct...

I cleaned and regreased the freewheeling hub whilst doing this.

Used aviation form a gasket when reinstalling the freewheeling hub outer.

You could replace/repack the bearings whilst doing...

Replace the freewheeling hub outer.
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Replace the circlip


I found this really frustrating on the first one as well. The axle would keep moving inwards when I tried to put the circlip over it. So pin punch in the center hole and...

Replace the freewheeling hub inner.
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Put the freewheeling hub locator in.
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Put the two screws in.
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I put low strength thread locker on these as probably not a good idea for them to come loose. The...

Put the lock washer on.
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You need to have it so that holes in the washer line up with the two threaded holes in the locknut. ...

Time to put it all back together.


Put the GU locknut on.
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This is a hand tight initally but then I used a pin punch and...

Remove the inner nut.


Once again I used the socket but really not necessary.

Remove the lock washer.
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I found this the most frustrating as it kept getting jammed on the thread and there's really not a lot...

Remove the outer nut.
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I had bought the 54mm hub socket so used that but it was not really necessary as the nut was only hand...

Straighten out the lockwasher tab for the outer locknut.
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You can see the tab on the left of the nut. I used a pin punch and...

Remove the inner part of the freewheeling hub.
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Remove the circlip
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Use external circlip pliers.

Remove the hub locating ring (don't know if this is what it's really called but it stayed in the hub when I removed the freewheeling hub....

Remove the freewheeling hub.

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Nothing difficult here just undo the six bolts with an 8mm hex bit and ratchet. There is also...

Change GQ (possibly MQ/MK as well) double nut and lock washer to GU single locknut and washer.

The parts.
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Top the GQ double...

I've see lot's of references to this but nothing that actually shows what is done.

So here it is.