My thoughts would be: it could've been damaged or it could have been incorrectly installed and now it is damaged. No way of proving either way now since you've probably repeatedly under-torque it and the tapers are probably fucked.
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My thoughts would be: it could've been damaged or it could have been incorrectly installed and now it is damaged. No way of proving either way now since you've probably repeatedly under-torque it and the tapers are probably fucked.