trouble with front hubs

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- September 7, 2015 at 6:44 pm #53952
  
  James O’Brien
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  Do you have the plastic outer rings still on?
- September 7, 2015 at 7:26 pm #53953
  
  Bill Schmidt
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  I haven’t seen any plastic rings. Where would they be if I had them?
  - September 7, 2015 at 9:05 pm #53957
    
    James O’Brien
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    Yeah the end of your inner hub, like a plastic spacer, they are usually red on the Intrepids. But that doesn’t sound like it. What line on your inner hub are you trying to get to?
- September 8, 2015 at 10:07 am #53972
  
  Bill Schmidt
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  There are 9 lines on the hub. I am trying to get to the last one. Need about 3/4″ more movement to get there. The outer hub will go all the way to where I want it to go, but not when the wheel is bolted to it.
- September 8, 2015 at 4:38 pm #54012
  
  James O’Brien
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  Anyone remember guys cutting off the ends of their hubs about that much to narrow the front?
- September 9, 2015 at 7:01 pm #54065
  
  Bill Schmidt
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  Well, it turns out that my friend Alan Sheidler looked at the kart today and he said the hubs are 40mm and the wheels are 35mm, or close to it. So basically someone before me bought the wrong wheels. I am the 3rd owner of the kart.
  - September 9, 2015 at 8:23 pm #54067
    
    William Martin
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    Sounds like you need to find “normal” 40mm wheels, what you have sounds like some CRG thing. At any rate, the wheel registers on the center hole, not the bolt holes, so it will not be happy even if you had the adjustment range you want. Running out of true is as bad as out of balance…only maybe worse!
    
    Bill M.
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