Looking after your hub bearings

[pro4nut]

Having built the x2c and the x4 recently, it reminded me of people posting about bearing failures in the hubs.
There is too much of a gap between the drive pins and teh bearings an i would advise fitting shims to take up the slack and ensure that when the wheels are fitted that they don't bind up the bearings by placing the load on the outer race rather than on the inner race.

The rear of the x2c required 0.9mm of shims as a guide

HTH

Wayne