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I bought my '94 ST as salvage a couple of years back and discovered it'd had 14 owners and no servicing judging by the bible-like nonsense of servicing errors, worn/seized/damaged/missing parts. Anyway the motor blew and I'm replacing that and stripping the rear end to replace the shock.
I took apart the Triumph suspension last night and I'm truly baffled by it... It seems to contradict the Triumph parts microfiche and the laws of physics. I can only assume it's part of another model because I can't for the life of me work out how the linkage comes apart to free the shock.
This is what it should look like, the shock sits in the middle bit of the wishbone looky-liky bit and the link arms attach to the swing arm & a bolt threads from one side to the other through the wishbone and holds the shock in place - standard stuff
What I found was that the wishbone had fractured at the point where one of the 14 owners has over tightened a pinch bolt, so I ground the piece off. the thing is that there's no bolt going through the wishbone and shock as the microfiche says there should be. It's like the whole thing is some kind of pressed bush affair because I can not get the protruding part out - the bit that's pushed against the link arm is firmly in place, there is a 19mm hex head and grease nipple that came off either side - no bolt. What's worse is that when you look inside the protruding bit/bush it's clearly a single with another on the other side separated by another bush in the middle - you can see the joins between bshes by looking down the protruding bush. By my reckoning it means that triumph manufactured the part that meant the whole thing either needs some hydraulic press/grip to remove/replace the bushes or the whole thing - including the shock - comes as one part...
I'd be interested to hear anyone's comments on what they think is going on here - what am I missing?
For anyone interested - here's pics of the crankcase after the lump threw its middle conrod - notice the fractures to the starter motor housing as well as the gouge out the casing!
I took apart the Triumph suspension last night and I'm truly baffled by it... It seems to contradict the Triumph parts microfiche and the laws of physics. I can only assume it's part of another model because I can't for the life of me work out how the linkage comes apart to free the shock.
This is what it should look like, the shock sits in the middle bit of the wishbone looky-liky bit and the link arms attach to the swing arm & a bolt threads from one side to the other through the wishbone and holds the shock in place - standard stuff

What I found was that the wishbone had fractured at the point where one of the 14 owners has over tightened a pinch bolt, so I ground the piece off. the thing is that there's no bolt going through the wishbone and shock as the microfiche says there should be. It's like the whole thing is some kind of pressed bush affair because I can not get the protruding part out - the bit that's pushed against the link arm is firmly in place, there is a 19mm hex head and grease nipple that came off either side - no bolt. What's worse is that when you look inside the protruding bit/bush it's clearly a single with another on the other side separated by another bush in the middle - you can see the joins between bshes by looking down the protruding bush. By my reckoning it means that triumph manufactured the part that meant the whole thing either needs some hydraulic press/grip to remove/replace the bushes or the whole thing - including the shock - comes as one part...

I'd be interested to hear anyone's comments on what they think is going on here - what am I missing?
For anyone interested - here's pics of the crankcase after the lump threw its middle conrod - notice the fractures to the starter motor housing as well as the gouge out the casing!

