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Slider Installation Question

rocko

rocko

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I bought a set of SME sliders for my front axle and put them on last night. I didn't see a torque spec in the instructions so I just figured I'd tighten it up good and hope they stay on. Used blue loctite.

I kept tightening the sliders using a wrench and it never got to the point where it was too hard for me to tighten it any more. I don't think the other side was just spinning around but maybe it was.

When I got to work and made sure they were still there I thought, "Maybe I put them on too tight and tightened them so much that I bent the fork tubes inward or crushed a bearing or something?"

I didn't notice anything different on the ride into work but I've never taken this type of front wheel off so I don't know if it's possible to squeeze the bottom ends of the fork tubes together by overtightening.

Any thoughts?
 
You probably just stretched the threaded rod a bit or deformed the delrin, or the nut is spinning in the delrin. Snug is all it needs, maybe loctite. Konging it on there won't make it any stronger.

You won't collapse the forks together as long as the clamp bolts on your axle are still tight. You would have to collapse a bearing for that to happen, and if you can do that with a 1/4" threaded rod, you wouldn't be riding around on them.
 
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