My festy is trying to lose a limb !

[georgeb]

How did you know to cut it to #13 size? Is there a mark in the hub? Preload not that important?

[Bert]

Some of you guys are pretty inventive!
I've grown to loathe unnecessarily playing with front hubs and am very thankful to have switched to Aspire-derived 'floating and vented' rotors so as to be able to leave hubs alone whenever playing with brakes. I could never get any decent life out of Festy rotors before they warped, rusted or scored badly.

[Festiva_Fred]

Where in Missouri are you?

[georgeb]

I thought that you had a quality way to make spacers but the way you describe sounds sketchy. The cut must be perfectly perpendicular and uniform or the bearing(s) will be cocked or unevenly loaded. I am also sceptical of this "ruler".

[Fester's Quest]

I thought that you had a quality way to make spacers but the way you describe sounds sketchy. The cut must be perfectly perpendicular and uniform or the bearing(s) will be cocked or unevenly loaded. I am also sceptical of this "ruler".

If my brother hadn't been so smooth with a cutting wheel and a grinder, it never would've worked. It measured exactly .2666 all the way around when he was done with it. Digital rulers are incredibly handy !

An 02 rio has the same wheel bearing design that our festys have.

[georgeb]

I still don't know how you chose .2666 as the thickness without the old spacer. Is the # stamped on the hub? Also is the digital ruler a micrometer?

[Fester's Quest]

I still don't know how you chose .2666 as the thickness without the old spacer. Is the # stamped on the hub? Also is the digital ruler a micrometer?

I had read a thread on here about someone who had success with a 12 and a 13 . Then i read another thread that stated that 11 through 15 would work, so i chose 13 as my median size.

Micrometer, thats it ! I'm a bit of a redneck :toothy9:

[georgeb]

I had read a thread on here about someone who had success with a 12 and a 13 . Then i read another thread that stated that 11 through 15 would work, so i chose 13 as my median size.

Micrometer, thats it ! I'm a bit of a redneck :toothy9:

So you guessed? Well maybe you got lucky!

[Fester's Quest]

So you guessed? Well maybe you got lucky!

It seems great so far, but i guess i'll know when 8k miles rolls around, lol. You wouldn't happen to know how good these things are in the mud would you ? i'm moving very far out in the country and i've heard from youtube videos that these things do wonderful in the mud. Anybody with some first hand experience ?