From: Jim Stead (Gadget@easypath.com)
Date: Sun May 28 2006 - 16:22:59 PDT
I have a couple of Selectro locking hubs I thought I'd put on my deuce but I
The guts of the locking mechanism are retained on the inside by a snap ring.
Maybe there's some sort of wedge action happening between the snap ring, the
I probably never would have even noticed it, but one of the rings came loose
Anyone ever use these hubs? Anyone ever heard of a manufacturing defect
noticed something with them I don't like.
It's nothing more than a curved round wire, and it doesn't even fit
completely into the groove of the hub housing. The groove is smaller than
the ring. It looks like a good vibration could shake these things apart...
groove in the hub, and the guts being retained by the ring? Is that how a
wire type retainer normally works?
in shipping. Finding the ring loose in the box made me wonder if I want to
put these hubs on my truck!
recall by Selectro? I'm very surprised by the cheap ring, I can't believe
they would even consider building them this way. I mean, what's an internal
C-ring cost gonna cost them?
Thanks,
Jim
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