I didn’t loctite my first set of fixed axles either, haven’t moved in 300 miles
Shoulder bolts left a terrible taste in my mouth after 3 got stuck. Never again.
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He said he ran shoulder bolts, not the fixed axles. The axles are so much more reliable from my experience.
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They really are haha
I wouldn’t have loctited shoulder bolts either, they’re basically impossible to get out as it is
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Two miles and a shoulder bolt comes loose on my surf rods lol
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not too hard for you to add yeah!
see this also
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I have a drill press, shouldn’t be hard to get a nice M4 tap somewhere…I will need to splurge on a nice clamp though, my current ones don’t do much
Do I try to get the screw on the inside or the outside face of the clamps?
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I would think near the end would have the least effect on strength and easier to access once wheel is off
That’s a good point, I guess the top will be the lowest stress right?
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Interested… kingpins are 3/8-24?
Yes they are. They ship with 4 kingpin nuts
Okay. This typo threw me off, would be a different sized nut if that was the case.
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Both in a 177mm TKP hanger, and in a 127mm TKP hanger, and in an RKP 200mm hanger – the exposed 10mm part of the axle is actually 33mm in length. (Complete exposed axle 10mm + 8mm is 71mm)
Shouldn’t be an issue for most people, means you can run longer motors, but I was surprised why the 8mm part wasn’t aligning with my fixed axle front truck, when I had done the math before ordering. 
Edit: maybe I’m not threading it in far enough? Or there are 2 versions, and I somehow got the longer one…
Edit 2: apparently I have the BN axles for BN trucks, which also fit Surf Rodz, so now I’m confused why there are 2 versions 
Thank you @janpom
Edit 3: Or not. I’m probably not installing them deep enough. But how do I get a grip on them to try futher? 
Edit 4: compared with a standard surf rodz axle: that I can thread to 12mm deep, but these I can only get 5mm in…
Final edit:
With an old bike innertube and some large pliers I can get it in so that only 25mm of the 10mm part are exposed. That’s probably good enough…
TL;DR: I’m an idiot; these axles are just hard to insert.
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Yes they are tricky to install sometimes. The new version coming will see a slight price reduction + a 5mm hex drive to make assembly a breeze.
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I think I only glued two of them in…
the other two I might want to swap for them.
At launch will the AT drive have adapters for the BN trucks?
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legit info, is this changed the the newer 270 axles?
Fuck stepped axles.
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I was also wondering this. Also thinking if the 270 is too long for a haya with gbomb brackets. May go 220
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@Boardnamics what bearings do I use for the BN270 trucks and MBS rockstar hubs? bearings are confusing. I assume the bn270 have 10mm axles which is tripping me up
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