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      10-16-2019, 10:06 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by armiii View Post
can you simply explain this to me?
Not without being face to face (or me drawing a pretty picture). However maybe try a little experiment. Take a bolt (preferably of a bigish diameter) and stack a bunch of flat washers on it, then tighten them all using a nut (barely tight, just enough so the washers do not move). Now spin/move the washers without spinnig the nut (this might be hard to do but the more washers you have the easier it should be to do the middle ones), eventually you should be able to get the nut to come off without needing tools.

Essentially this is what is happening with the crank hub.

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Originally Posted by F87source View Post
TBH the vtt spline lock solution sounds promising too, plus you don't have to pull the motor apart to the same extent for drilling the crank.
Spline lock has been proven not to work. Great idea but the crank is forged and hardened you are never going to "bite" into the material by screwing something on.

Aside from that it seems their machinist might not be of the highest quality, see here:

https://www.litchfieldmotors.com/blo...ank-hub-issue/
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