Replacement of the rear axle hub bolt

On this day I was busy with home tasks so it was difficult to find the time for the repair, but I could manage to find a little time in the late evening.

Regarding the hub bolts of the left rear axle currently repairing, the thread (left handed thread) of one of the hub bolts was damaged in the past.

I thought I should order it to replace, but I found it while I was checking my stock parts a few days before. Thinking about it, it might have been ordered when I had ordered many parts a few years ago. Recently I often forget the parts or tools I purchased in the past…that is bad!

I had little time on this day, so I just prepared for the replacement. Since the tip of the new bolt was very edgy as it was cut, I refined it with a file.

The other work I did on this day was the replacement of the O rings at the accelerator pump jet plug of the WEBER carburetor.

I found that the O rings at the accelerator pump jet plug were melted by gasoline. Probably the quality the O rings included in the WEBER overhaul kit I used before was not good. Therefore, I replaced the O rings with new ones which had better anti-gasoline durability.

But the size of the new O rings seemed to be little bit too big…

I would replace them with smaller ones in next time.

It was fun for me to do this kind of things while listening to FM radio at night. ☺︎

(My original blog was written on 9th Feb. 2009)

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