Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...the White Industries bottom bracket requires a lock ring ? I've never seen a sealed unit BB that needs a lockring on the non drive side. I guess maybe I don't know what we're talking about any more. The whole deal with using a spacer under the drive side lip on a sealed unit is pretty much based on the idea that the non drive side cup that holds the sealed unit in place just threads on into the BB until the tapered lip butts up against the cartridge and holds the thing in place.
Unfortunately, @
tomtomtom123 is right. But I was thinking that the cheapest/easiest way to fix that problem is to put a 2.5mm thick washer in between the fixed cup and the pressed-in bearing.
BTW, I took this thing off of my other bike because I got sick of the NDS spontaneously tightening itself up. The lock-ring doesn't work very well. (Maybe I should chuck my $130 boutique BB and its new ceramic bearings into the trash and get the $13 Shimano special.)