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jjmaine · June 11th, 2022, 02:15 PM

Yeah could be. I’m having a hell of a time getting this adjusted so I have 0 wallowing and 0 wobble. I can either tighten it up a little and I get low speed wallowing or loosen it a little and I get high speed wobble when decelerating. I think I may have the answer. The top all balls seal gets squished down onto the outer cage of the bearing when you snug the nut down to tension everythinng. I have it back apart now and with the seal on there is about one full turn of the nit feom the time it touches the seal to the time it gets pushed down onto the bearing. I think it is giving me a sort of “false” tension. This may be why there was no seal from oem, just the cap. I’m going to leave the seal out and give it a try tomorroq. It shouldn’t be this hard lol. I did read about a couple others having the same problem on the Ninja300 forum….

June 11th, 2022, 02:15 PM	#7
jjmaine ninjette.org member Name: Justin Location: Maine Join Date: Jul 2016 Motorcycle(s): '05 Ninja 250, '16 Ninja 300 Posts: 113	Yeah could be. I’m having a hell of a time getting this adjusted so I have 0 wallowing and 0 wobble. I can either tighten it up a little and I get low speed wallowing or loosen it a little and I get high speed wobble when decelerating. I think I may have the answer. The top all balls seal gets squished down onto the outer cage of the bearing when you snug the nut down to tension everythinng. I have it back apart now and with the seal on there is about one full turn of the nit feom the time it touches the seal to the time it gets pushed down onto the bearing. I think it is giving me a sort of “false” tension. This may be why there was no seal from oem, just the cap. I’m going to leave the seal out and give it a try tomorroq. It shouldn’t be this hard lol. I did read about a couple others having the same problem on the Ninja300 forum….