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Originally Posted by JustMississippi
I just went outside to try and give this another go and realized the rear wheel doesn't have a cotter pin in it. The cotter nut (  ) is so over torqued it is covering the hole where the cotter pin should have went. I don't want to come off as a pyromaniac but is the only option left to torch it? |
A notch in the nut not lining up with a hole in the axle has nothing to do with whether or not it's overtightened. It just means whoever put it on didn't line up a notch with one of the two cross drilled holes.