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I was kinda doin' ok up til now. Life handed me lemons, I made lemonade. Then life came back & did Very Unpleasant Things with my fresh bowl of lemonade....
I went down to the garage today to try to be productive. It did not start well. There were no lifts available, & I had forgotten a few bits. So I swapped out my worn-out peg rubbers, tapped M8 threads into the TLS top clamp where I needed 'em, & drained my oil while waiting.
The lift became available, so I put the bike up, changed the filter, & noticed something wrong: 8000 miles has taken a major toll on the center portion of my 11-month-old Conti Road Attack. As in time for a new one. When I'm very, very broke.
Well, nothing to be done about that. Too much time lost to get into swapping in the shock, but probably just enough time to clean the chain & finally ditch the 19-tooth sprocket that came with this motor....
Washer successfully unbent, mechanic on duty kind enough to lend his air wrench, sprocket unscrewed easy-peasy! So, loosen up chain... Won't come much looser, but I manage to pull the old sprocket out & swap in the new. Bike in sixth, enough tightening happens with each revolution of the motor that I eventually feel the torque wrench click out its 132 Newton-meter warning. Out come the Vice Grips & the new washer is bent up on 2 sides. Let's just tighten this chain up and....
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? The eccentric seems to be siezed. After bending my spanner & gaining no ground at all with the brutish screwdriver-&-hammer method, I think I actually said "bugger all!" out loud. (Odd only because I usually curse in the President's English.)
So I try to figure it out. There is play side to side when the clamp is loose, but not when it's tightened. Looking at the exploded views, it seems like the eccentric should certainly be able to rotate if it's free to move laterally, but apparently that's not the case....
Eventually, I decide that despair is the better part of valor & resolve to waste money that I don't have on a car service back to my 'hood. So, I go to button everything up. Torque wrench at 55Nm for the eccentric pinch bolt, start turning, and....
****! ****ing ****er's ****ing well ****ed!!!
Somewhere around what felt like 10Nm, the bolt went loose again. Having replaced the bolt about a month ago, I was pretty sure it wasn't the stainless bolt that went....
****!!!! ***************************!!!!!!!!
And that's about where I am. Wondering vaguely whether I need to replace my rear wheel bearings as my mind refuses to think about the likely need for a new swingarm.
Anybody know if a T509 swingarm will fit? Will a Helicoil fix it? Should I just give up & pack it in?
I went down to the garage today to try to be productive. It did not start well. There were no lifts available, & I had forgotten a few bits. So I swapped out my worn-out peg rubbers, tapped M8 threads into the TLS top clamp where I needed 'em, & drained my oil while waiting.
The lift became available, so I put the bike up, changed the filter, & noticed something wrong: 8000 miles has taken a major toll on the center portion of my 11-month-old Conti Road Attack. As in time for a new one. When I'm very, very broke.
Well, nothing to be done about that. Too much time lost to get into swapping in the shock, but probably just enough time to clean the chain & finally ditch the 19-tooth sprocket that came with this motor....
Washer successfully unbent, mechanic on duty kind enough to lend his air wrench, sprocket unscrewed easy-peasy! So, loosen up chain... Won't come much looser, but I manage to pull the old sprocket out & swap in the new. Bike in sixth, enough tightening happens with each revolution of the motor that I eventually feel the torque wrench click out its 132 Newton-meter warning. Out come the Vice Grips & the new washer is bent up on 2 sides. Let's just tighten this chain up and....
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? The eccentric seems to be siezed. After bending my spanner & gaining no ground at all with the brutish screwdriver-&-hammer method, I think I actually said "bugger all!" out loud. (Odd only because I usually curse in the President's English.)
So I try to figure it out. There is play side to side when the clamp is loose, but not when it's tightened. Looking at the exploded views, it seems like the eccentric should certainly be able to rotate if it's free to move laterally, but apparently that's not the case....
Eventually, I decide that despair is the better part of valor & resolve to waste money that I don't have on a car service back to my 'hood. So, I go to button everything up. Torque wrench at 55Nm for the eccentric pinch bolt, start turning, and....
****! ****ing ****er's ****ing well ****ed!!!
Somewhere around what felt like 10Nm, the bolt went loose again. Having replaced the bolt about a month ago, I was pretty sure it wasn't the stainless bolt that went....
****!!!! ***************************!!!!!!!!
And that's about where I am. Wondering vaguely whether I need to replace my rear wheel bearings as my mind refuses to think about the likely need for a new swingarm.
Anybody know if a T509 swingarm will fit? Will a Helicoil fix it? Should I just give up & pack it in?