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#14202

How 0.o?
There is plastic preventing the bearings to come to close to eachother. Are you dead sure?
These are 97mm abec clones

#14203

yes, i have skateboarded for a while

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#14204

I know you use these for standard size wheels, but the 97mm ones have spacers out of plastic in their design…
So I’m confused how they should fit there

#14205

put one bearing in then the spacer and then the other bearing

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#14206

Always a spacer.

Unless you use these:

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#14207

I feel dumb not knowing how to put this spacer in, since the bearings are separated by pitch of the plastic…
How do I fit the spacer in there?
It would just fly around if I put it in there :frowning:

#14208

Bearing–spacer–bearing…turn board on side, put wheel on and spin it, will settle down onto axle.

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#14209

That’s what I learned too, but I struggle with how to do that bearing-speacer-bearing.
How do you get bearings out? Raw power with a screwdriver? Maybe I can post some pictures so that you can help me? ^^

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#14210

well first of course you have to take one bearing out, then just put the spacer in the wheel so the hole is in the same direction as the bearing hole. Then you put the other bearing in

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#14211

How am I supposed to get a spacer in there that won’t move around?

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#14212

it moves around, that’s normal xd
when putting the wheel on your axle you’ll have to align it with the bearing holes

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#14213

How am I supposed to align it with the bearing holes :((((((

#14214

Stick small Allen key through bearings + spacer, slide wheel into axle while removing the Allen key at the same time. Boom, you got yourself a mounted wheel.

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#14215

also this ↑

i just put the wheel on the axle and spun it until it dropped down. But since i exclusively use zealous bearings I don’t need to anymore

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#14216

that’s a different type of wheel, on normal wheels you can’t do that

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#14217

The wheel is different obviously. But the way to install it is the same and thats what matters.

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#14219

What did I do wrong?

#14220

ow never mind, i thought he put that whole stack in the wheel in 1 push, xd i didn’t watch the whole vid

#14221

perfect, that’s how it’s supposed to be

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#14222

As I assumed, the spacer is now freely doing its thing in there :frowning:

Thats why I thought I don’t need it, since it doesn’t fit in any hole or something