Hi ya’ll, first time DIYer here. It’s taken me a while to try to solve this problem on my own but I cannot figure out a solution.
I put on my bearings and spacer in my motor wheel correctly (I hope?). But when I am trying to put the motor wheel onto the truck, it takes a lot of force. I can slide the belt on pretty easily by turning the wheel pulleys a few times and it latches on. My problem comes from trying to push the wheel in further onto the truck.
In the picture, you can see the point where I can put the wheel on the truck fine up until the truck bolt reaches halfway through the wheel. Right about there is where lots of force needs to be used to squeeze the wheel onto the truck. (This could be the problem - why do I need so much force onto the wheel?) You can see that I took off the wheel halfway through the installation and the bearing is already out.
Previous times, I’ve put the wheel and belt 100% on and installed and after about 10-50 full turns of the wheel, the bearing clicks again (I’m assuming it’s the bearing since when I disassemble it and turn the motor alone, it is fine).
I’m thinking I am doing something wrong with (1) applying so much force to install the wheel on the truck or (2) the 280mm belt is really f**king tight when fully installed. Maybe it is pulling back on the wheel and popping the bearing out?
I get clicking when my belt is too tight. Does the wheel go all the way in without the belt? If it’s not that, have you tried putting just a single bearing onto the truck? Possibly a bad fit?
If you put the wheel without the belt on the axle and spin it does the pulley seem to wobble? Maybe unbalanced pulley with tight belt makes that sound?
@Tamatoa@Fromualdez Wow thanks for the responses. I just tried putting it out without the belt and it slid on easily. Maybe I was just forgetting about the belt being in the way when I put the wheel on.
And yeah tamatoa, it does wobble a little bit. Let me post a video in a second. The uneven-ness is very small, so I can understand some increased friction, but I still don’t see how this would pop the inner bearing out each time. Give me a min. Thanks!
it does wobble a bit but I would try to loosen the belt a bit first.
maybe if you overtighten a bit too much some of those 6 screws it compresses the area where the bearing seat is and could be an issue but I am not an expert either. I would try to re install the pulley tightening the screws firmly but not so much that it would wobble like that. and use loctite which needs to cure 24 hrs (or was it 48? never remember)
the mounting holes on the motor mounts are elongated so you can slide the motor and set the distance between the motor and the truck. This will allow you to shorten the distance between the wheel pulley and the motor pulley
Im not sure how to fix it. Ive tried to minimize it and thats as best as I could do. Do you think that will give major problems?