Rear bearing question

[Peer Lovell]

On the CR, there is a bearing lock ring on the disc side of the hub.
When the bike comes from the factory the lock ring is staked to the hub...there is a small dimple put in the metal between the hub and the ring to prevent it from winding its way out.
Each time I have replaced bearings I have put a new stake in the hub. But now the threads are getting messed up.
Does everyone else re stake the hub, or would red locktite work instead?

 

[Ol'89r]

Peer.

The trick is to drill the dimpled area out before removing the lock ring. Take a drill bit a little larger than the dimpled area and drill down until you have drilled the dimple out. When you dimple a thread, it mashes the thread down and if you try to remove it without drilling it out it will drag the mashed area across the good thread and damage it.

Red Lock-tite would probably work, but you will have to heat the Lock-tite to remove the ring. Red is for threads that you don't want to take off. I would just re-stake it in a competly different area.

Just my $ .02 (Considering the exchange rate between Kalifornia and the rest of the U.S., you just got about a 1/2 a cent worth of info.) :)