loose bearing race - K/H disc hub

Jim Lusk said
My only comment on this is that the problem with the bad hub may not have been a spun race. My first Dart lost a wheel bearing about a month after I bought it (mechanic who replaced them for the previous owner did not grease them...). New race on the inner was loose because the hub was cracked from the heat. I have one K-H hub here that the inner was loose going in. I never looked to see why, I just grabbed another that I had and used it. That hub is still around here somewhere...

A very valid point. But that goes back to making sure that you inspect the hub and determine what repairs are appropriate.

It's a 50+ year old part, so it's best not to assume what the problem is and do a thorough inspection. Just because one method of repair might be "better" doesn't mean it will work best in a particular case.

67Dart273 said
Loctite was NEVER made to fill gaps in machined surfaces especially under load. When you have a BEARING RACE (which is quite brittle and can fracture) and you are trying to support it with an elastic material in a cavity that is loose and likely not round, you are "engineering yourself" into an outer space of unknowns. WHAT HAPPENS if that race breaks, or cracks, and it screws up a needle in that bearing? What happens at 70+? 90+? What happens on a highway in the middle of the AZ desert? Or even "up here" on a hot summer day?

Clearly you didn't bother to look up Loctite 660 or follow the link I posted to its data sheets. It was literally designed to fill gaps for bearing races, that's the reason it exists. This is not blue or red Loctite thread locker.

Hell even in the scenario where the hub gets a sleeve there are plenty of machinists out there that would use a locking compound on the sleeve to hub interface, there are compounds out there for various different classes of fit.