It's been a number of years since I had the noise in my rear wheel. When you get things torn apart (assuming you are doing it yourself), note the condition of the cush drive rubber. Also take note to see if the inner bearing still has a interference fit in the rim. I previously posted that reducing the 81 ft lbs torque helped elliminate the clicking noise I had, but I also noticed that the inner bearing (outer race) started to spin in the rim after I did this, ruining the bearing bore. I finally replaced the cheap All Balls bearings with Nachi ones from vxb.com. I installed the Nachi bearings fitting the problematic inner bearing with Loctite 638 wicking compound for loose fitting bearings to lock in place. This was a couple of years ago. Still running. No noise.
These prices are not current and have tripled!!! Go figure??? You only need 1 of each. The problematic bearing I had was replaced by Kit 10108. This was the one that spun in the rim bore probably because of being under torqued, but that's just my best guess. Others have had success with reducing the torque on the rear axle. I now take back what I recommended in my previous post #12 stating that reducing the rear axle torque can be good.
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