Here's How To Fix Your Front Wheel

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 20

Here's How To Fix Your Front Wheel

WATCH a mechanic work on the job of replacing a front wheel and " you will note that he tightens up the wheel nut until it won't turn, then backs it off slowly until the wheel spins freely. There's a reason fi^r this. i Unless the work is dorfe m this way you are apt to start off with the wheel loose. It is important to set the wheel as far m on the axle as it will go, and the only way to do this is to force it m by turning the nut up tight. > • ' The nut, m turning, pushes the wheel m on the axle with considerable force. You could press on the wheel with all your might and perhaps fail to^set it in' as tight as. by turning up the nut with a wrench. . ... If the wheel does not spin easily after the nut is backed off a little the indications are that the brakes drag.