:wave:first and for most, thanks for adding me to group.:big-grin I'm a new member looking for some help and i am getting no where trying to search it. My 7 year old girl and i went riding through some muddy swamp terrain and got stuck which is normal for us. but being a good dad and wanting to teach her how to ride my 570sp hunters edition :angel so i decided to try and have her get us out. she released the winch and i walked with it to wrap a tree and had her pull and throttle her way out. well she ended up snapping the front axle...
:wtf: well me thinking like a fix it all for free or cheap guy i took the wheel pulled the axle out of wheel and grinded the axle off and reinstalled it back into the hud knuckle( i think thats what its called). took it for a test ride and seemed fine. then like 3000 feet from house front wheel locked up. i wasn't able to put cotter pin back in cause it wouldn't sit in far enough to put cotter pin and nut on hub. couldn't figure out why. seems like hub has a lot of play. so new axle cam in which is a caiman xhd axle. luckily i was able to pop off old one with two flat heads cause it was so short from snapping at pivot point. so now i was getting excited thinking i got this.... i installed the new one(thanks to youtube) and sure as shit it wont come out for enough into the hub to get washer, cotter pin and nut. i'm only able to screw on the nut a 1/4 of the way. hub and i guess knuckle still have alot of play. when i look inside where axle sides into wheel i see big ball bearing... am i suppose to see that or should it be sealed? is my wheel hub not lining into bearing properlly?:headache: i'm in need of some :duh:(your should know better) comments and some real help.
thanks for taking time reading this. i hope you guys can help my little one and I back into the woods and swamps.
:wtf: well me thinking like a fix it all for free or cheap guy i took the wheel pulled the axle out of wheel and grinded the axle off and reinstalled it back into the hud knuckle( i think thats what its called). took it for a test ride and seemed fine. then like 3000 feet from house front wheel locked up. i wasn't able to put cotter pin back in cause it wouldn't sit in far enough to put cotter pin and nut on hub. couldn't figure out why. seems like hub has a lot of play. so new axle cam in which is a caiman xhd axle. luckily i was able to pop off old one with two flat heads cause it was so short from snapping at pivot point. so now i was getting excited thinking i got this.... i installed the new one(thanks to youtube) and sure as shit it wont come out for enough into the hub to get washer, cotter pin and nut. i'm only able to screw on the nut a 1/4 of the way. hub and i guess knuckle still have alot of play. when i look inside where axle sides into wheel i see big ball bearing... am i suppose to see that or should it be sealed? is my wheel hub not lining into bearing properlly?:headache: i'm in need of some :duh:(your should know better) comments and some real help.
thanks for taking time reading this. i hope you guys can help my little one and I back into the woods and swamps.