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Stooz
Thanks for that. What is the tension plate? Is that that block pushing the wheel back? Also is there any potential damage to bearings I need to worry about?
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The tension plate is what you called the aluminium adjuster plate. Like Pepsi said, I wouldn't worry too much about the bolt digging into it. Mine has the same indentations from the nut. I generally try and make sure that there is a flat side of both the bolt and nut against the adjuster rather than a pointy bit.
The rear axle torque should be around 110Nm (If I remember correctly) which is pretty tight if you are trying to undo with a short handle socket, so it might be that the axle was correctly torqued. I use a 12" breaker bar to crack the nut on my axle and have to put a fair bit of effort to do that.
I would have thought the bearings are sound unless its been torqued to some ridiculous rate!, but worth checking if you have the wheel off. I tend to check mine each time the wheel is off.