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PART 3
(F) Nutted or Bolt-On Type
8. Install Front Wheel
GT Bicycle Owner’s Manual
Pick up the front wheel and look at the axle. The axle nuts will be threaded onto the hub axle. Inside each
of the axle nuts is a tabbed washer. To ease installation, turn both nuts counterclockwise and push the
tabbed washers out to create some space on the axle so that the axle fits onto the dropouts.
Be sure that the axle at both ends of the hub is fully engaged with the dropouts on the fork. Push down
on the front of the bike and hold the bike upright. When fully and properly engaged you will see that the
wheel is centered in the fork, that there is the same amount of space between the tire and the inside of
the fork on both sides.
Carefully fit the tab of each tabbed washer into the mating holes in the dropout above the axle. Then
hand tighten both axle nuts, being sure that each of the tabbed washers stay in their respective holes.
Use a 15mm or large adjustable wrench to tighten both axle nuts.
Turn clockwise, “Righty-Tighty”.
Make the nuts very tight.
