Wheel Bearing Adusting Nut Size

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Anyone know the size of the wheel bearing adjusting nut on the front hub for a 69 Dart? I am getting my wheel back together and the largest socket I have is a 1", which was not big enough. I want to make sure I torque it correctly with my torque wrench instead of just "going by feel" since I am not the most experienced guy with this part of my vehicle maintenance. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Sorry, have never used anything other than a large pair of slip joint pliers, and yes I go by feel, have been doing it for over 40 years, Snug the nut until the wheel no longer turns easily, then half a turn back. (Old school method)
 
Sorry, that should have been rotor or drum, not wheel.
Senility creeping in, or maybe it's from too many brain cells lost to leaded gas...........ahh the good old days, or maybe all the alcohol over the decades......nope, must have been the leaded gas.
 
It's definitely 1 1/16" I have a old wrench cut in half to tighten them up with, tighten them up tight with a short wrench then back off till loose just till the cotter pin fits in the hole.
 
missing linc said:
Sorry, have never used anything other than a large pair of slip joint pliers, and yes I go by feel, have been doing it for over 40 years, Snug the nut until the wheel no longer turns easily, then half a turn back. (Old school method)
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All I ever used, too. Our auto shop instructor in high school (1980) who was retirement age then taught us a tad different. He said do the same as you describe, but then said to tighten it to the next lined up slot. He said backing off was like an "old man" and not to do it that way. LOL It's always worked for me. Point is, I am sure there is more than one way to git r done.
 
it's like 12in lbs, or 1lb on a 12in lever, which is almost nothing. I tighten it with some channelocks a little tight to align the rollers in the bearings, then back off slightly, while turning the drum/disk and also stopping to check the wobble by trying to rock the drum/disk by pushing & pulling while grasping the top and bottom of drum/disk. I try to just tighten it back up until i eliminate the wobble when I put on the castelated lock nut to line up with the cotter pin hole in the spindle. I hope that makes sense.
 
Service manual says to tighten the adjusting nut to 90 in/lbs and then back off one notch on the cover and insert the cotter pin. So I used my torque wrench with 1 1/16" socket (good call) and tightened it per the manual and just barely cracked it back after. Guess we will see what happens.
 
It is more than interesting that there is such a difference in the general Timken procedure and the Dodge-Plymouth procedure.
I think the idea of preseating them at something more than 90 in-lbs. makes sense. My own experience has been that following the FSM with disk brakes, I'm often retightening the bearings after a few thousand miles. I don't know that the threads on the spindles of eaither the K-H or the Bendix brakes can take 50 ftlbs without damage, so I'm not suggesting that.
 
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