Hope someone can help with this...

Got a new rear wheel for a bike I'm building...it came with races installed but the Timken style bearings and seals that were not ..I know to pack the bearings with grease and then install the seals....Is there anything else I need to do....do I have to set the endplay or is this done after mounting the wheel? If so how do you set the endplay? I'm assuming its by the torgue on the axle?? Anyone one know what the axle nut should be torqued to? Its a Carolina Ciustom Sportster rigid frame...

Thanks for the help..

 

End play is very important. There needs to be a center spacer, a stepped washer,and then a shim or three. Put everything together dry, without seals, install axle with enough wheel spacers to be able to torque axle nut to 50 ft-lbs. Set up a dial indicator on the end of the axle. End play should be .002"-.006". To little the wheel will bind up and burn up the bearings, to much the bearings and races will pound each other into powder. Put the thinnest shims between the thick ones and the stepped washer and put them on the side opposite the brakes.