3,500 pound Dexter axle bearing pre-load?
I'm putting a new drum-brake system on a single-axle cargo trailer. It has a torsion suspension. I have the components ready to go and one of the old, non-brake assemblies removed. It occurred to me, ...
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RJsfishin wrote:
I'll buy that. I never directly read the instructions myself.
Tightening to 50ft lbs, then back off to the 1st notch, would be WRONG.
Like was more or less said, the ONLY reason to ever torque to 50 lbs, would be to seat a race that had not seated correctly during installation.
That could very well be true. Dexter even says in the same paragraph you can hand tighten with Channel Locks and then back off. I've done it both ways and end up with the cotter pin in the same hole so I think the result is the same. Like you said, if not replacing races, the torque wrench is probably not necessary.
