It was said earlier that you just put a washer in there and you're good to go. Well technically yes if you can find a washer that both fits inside the area, and has an inner diameter WIDER than the entire spline of the axle. Not just large enough to get past the threads, it must be larger than the whole spline itself, and since without custom making some (drilling out a huge hole into a washer) there aren't any readily available, I have a much much easier solution.
The interferance that's being caused is only about a .5mm interferance if that. Simply file down the chamfer (the angled inner lip) of the bottom of the axle nut a bit, so that the interfering surface no longer touches (you can tell where the nut is toushing the axle shaft from the 'bare' metal ring at the outer edge of the chamfer). That's it.
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Trident, if you put the washer (after files down) to the back of your axle nut, is the hole larger than the entire chamfer of the nut? If not then you didn't accomplish a single thing. At first glance it seems like it would fix the problem but it does nothing. If the hole you filed was only as big as (or slightly bigger than) the hole in the nut, take it off and try again man.
Brady, I'd show you but I already returned the 36mm socket so I can't take off the nut.
Prelude styl: I see your point, and I understand it. The washer that I used was large enough to fit over the recess that the axle nut goes in to. This is about an 1/8". If the washer that I used fit into that indentation, then you would be absolutely right... I would not have solved anything. Does that make sense?
ohh, I gotcha. Yeah I was thinking about using a washer large enough to do that, but I decided against it being that it pushes the nut out pretty far from where it originally sits, ya know? Did you have any problems tightening the nut back on and dimpling it?
No, I was still able to dimple the axle nut. It basically fits like it did when it was stock. My axle CV boot is torn though, so I am going to replace it with a 5th gen axle. I hope it fits (especially since it's cheaper than a 4th gen axle) That would eliminate all of these spacing problems.
if any of you could take a picture of the filling area, that would be great.
thanks for the help. i am nearing completion on my parts, and will looking to do this swap in the next few weeks.
thanks again.
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