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Originally Posted by Gregor
If you were to use proper length spacers with the bolts, couldn't you tighten the bolt too?
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In my past experience, if the bolts were tightened (to the point of them trying to act as a stiffener) with spacers, the spacers would interfere with the bearings and lock them up, making the dead axle wheel hard to rotate.
Ideally in this configuration, you would use standoffs around the axle to provide stiffness. That adds more parts, more weight, etc. Not hard to do, but you are limited to using the mounting holes provided by the DIAD, chain routing, etc.
Anyone have thoughts on using 3/8" steel rod as dead axles? Tap both ends of the axle and it'd be close to using tube axle/bolt. I wouldn't think a 1/4"-20 bolt would work...not enough thickness left in the rod. Something smaller like a #10 or #8...at which point you would have to drill all 4 holes in the DIAD sideplate, rather than using the pre-punched 1/4" hole for the outer wheels (of the 8wd)...but it could work.