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The next step, is applying your wheels to your trucks. Factory trucks normally come
a little bit tighter, so you should have your skate tool handy, to start it off a little
bit. Just undo your bolt. On each axle of each truck, there's two washers. You need
your washers for your wheels. They'll help your board spin a little bit more properly,
and make your wheels a little bit better. You always want to find the first washer,
and put your wheel on top of that one. Then, the second one, and then add the bolt on top.
I normally just hand screw it a little bit. Then, get the tool, line it up, and you don't
want to push too hard, because you can mess the bearing up, and you tighten it until it
starts to feel a little bit tight, and then you might want to go one half spin back. When
it's too tight, I'll show you when it's too tight. If you put your bolt on your truck
too tight, it will cause your wheel not to spin correctly, so you want it a little bit
less than tight, which causes it to spin perfectly, and that's the way you want your trucks and
your wheels to correspond, so here I've taken the bolt off the axle again. I'm removing
one washer, finding the wheel with the bearing inside, sliding it on the axle, topping off
with the washer, finding the bolt. Hand screw it, finding your tool, fully tightening it,
until it feels a little bit of stress on it. Then, you want to go about one half spin back,
so you want about this much room. It's all preference, but this is the way I skate my
trucks, like this, so it spins really well, like that.