Wheal Bearing Free Play, Drive Axle

2007 780, can anyone tell me what the correct amount of free play is. I am having the bearings re-torqued and I want to be sure the shop does them correctly. Thanks.

 

Jetsr6, interesting you mention the spun bearing. Last week we had a wheel seal blow, TA in North Bend WA did the repair. Tech said that the outer bearing looked as if it had spun and there was a slight ridge on the underside of the spindle. I felt the ridge and it didn't feel that bad. Didn't replace the bearings, just cleaned everything up and put it back together with the new seal. Done about 4000 miles since and all seems so far ok. I check for leaks and accessive hub temperature at each stop, as yet nothing out of the normal. Had a bit oif water contamination in the axle oil so I got a box service at Speedco and had some Lucas added, not sure if that was a good idea or not. To add the Lucas i mean. The axle temperature reading is a touch higher since the oil change but I think that is the Lucas. Before it was just pure synthetic, now it's 2.5 gallons of synthetic plus 0.5 gallons of Lucas.

 

We have the spacer, i saw it. When I watched the TA tech reassemble the hub I'm pretty sure he torqued the inner nut to 250 ftlbs, then rotated the hub 90 degrees, torqued again and then repeated one more time. He then backed the nut off 1/8 of a turn. Not sure what he did with the outer. Or maybe I got that round the wrong way, can't remember it was the end of a very long day.