One of my wheel hubs has a very tiny "wobble" noticeable with turf tires spinning in the air on the jack stands. Veeeerrrry tiny amount. But upon inspection the splines on axle and hub look pretty good. Hub came straight off with a bit of a tug.
What I notice is that when I push the hub back on, it seems to fit nice and snug on the axle- but it will go in about 1/8" past the point where it would be flush with the end of the axle. So with retaining nut and plate tight, the hub can actually move 1/8" in/out along the axle. The interesting part is that if I push it in tight by hand, the wobble disappears, with that slight gap showing between the hub and retaining plate. If I pull it back against the retaining plate / nut, the wobble comes back. I had a washer cut to fit around the axle spline between the hub and retaining plate and fill in that 1/8" gap, so washer is flush with end of axle and retaining bolt pulls / holds it all tight. No gap/slide, No wobble.
Before I get all proud of myself - does anyone see a problem doing this? Not sure a slightly worn hub would result in this "in and out" slack, or if I should be looking for another hub, or maybe the machine was built that way (the early 80 s 205 was apparently designed to be " easy" for owner to work on with basic tools so maybe hubs were built to be able to move a bit along axle shaft?). I have no idea. Maybe this is nothing, or maybe the tractor is sending me an early warning about the hub.
Should I grease this spline / hub and bolt it in and call it a day? I have never-seize as well as all purpose grease here.
Any thoughts are always appreciated. Thanks
This post was edited by rtoni on 11/25/2022 at 12:31 pm.
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