Is is just me, or is there a fair amount of forwad/backward slop between the stock Raptor hubs and the splines on the Lonestar axle? I put the hubs back on the stock axle just for comparison sake, and there is no slop. The problem is that I can't keep the nuts that hold the hubs on tight for more than one ride, and as soon as they loosen up, the *** end turns into a wiggling mess.

 

Use a lot of locktight and tork the bolts good.

 

I tried the LocTite thing the last time I tightened up the hubs. I used a full coating of the Blue formula, and that didn't seem to do a thing. I'm a little worried about using the Red formula since I've heard it's pretty much permanent.

 

I also went through this problem when I put on my lonestar axle. I tried torquing the hub nuts to over 100 lbs/ft and using loctite but the nuts would still come loose. Finally, I put JB weld on the hub splines. I was afraid that I might not be able to get the hubs back off if I did this,but I have taken one hub off since then and it came off with a tap of a hammer. I did this a few months ago and everything is still tight.

 

I also torqued mine to the point where I was afraid I was going to do some damage, and the bolts still loosened. Riding with the nuts loose also puts me in fear of eventually wearing out either the hubs or the splines on the axle. I'm going to give the JB Weld a try. Thanks for the help.

 

I guess I never considered that the nuts were loosening because the spacers were compressing while I was riding. The problem as I see it is that the hubs don't fit snug onto the axle splines on the LSR like they do with the stock axle, so there is some front to back slop that only goes away when the nut it really tight.

 

OK, I just got off the phone with one of the guys at Lonestar Racing. He said that due to the chroming and heat treating processes which don't produce identical results on all axles, some axles will have some slop in the hubs and some will not. He said that I can send the axle and my hubs to them to have the axle splines re-chromed to help fill in the gap (for a price, I assume). Or I can buy a pair of their billet aluminum hubs for $158 which eliminate the problem. I would think that the axle shouldn't have gone out the door and ended up on my quad if the stock hubs weren't going to fit properly onto it. I had no slop at all between my stock axle and hubs, so does this mean that I just got lucky or that maybe Yamaha "matched" my axle and hubs before shipping my quad out the door? I doubt that. I would think that the stock hubs are all within a very tight tolerance of one another, meaning that Lonestar Racing should be able to check each axle they produce against a pair of stock hubs to be sure that the splines are right. If not, do the chroming there or whatever it takes to bring the axle into spec. Don't make me buy another $158 worth of product or pull the axle back out of my quad and pay to ship it back to where it came from so that I can pay more to have something done that should have been done in the first place.

I know, Durablue and other axles probably have the same problem so I shouldn't be picking on Lonestar Racing.

And it all stemmed from me bending the useless, soft stock Raptor axle....