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CooLJoE
11-27-2003, 03:12 AM
SHIM THOSE AXLES!

If you haven't noticed already, your rear wheels/axles have a bit of side-to-side play in them. A quick removal of the wheel will show you this:

http://specialed.dynu.com/mini-t/minit-rearaxle-beforeshim.jpg

To fix this, you'll need a washer with a center diameter of about 5mm and atleast 1mm thick. I don't think anything thicker will work well, but I could be wrong. The outer diameter of the washer I used was 12mm. I wouldn't exceed that size. The outcome (for mine atleast) looks like this:

http://specialed.dynu.com/mini-t/minit-rearaxle-aftershim.jpg


If anyone has done this and found a better sized washer, please post it for others to know about. This is just what I had lying around in one of my small tool boxes (my parts container is in the garage...didn't care to walk down there). Hope this helps others.

troll
11-27-2003, 12:15 PM
I was hoping proper bearing might fix that. But that's a good temp fix. I just didn't bother.

Troll