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well last year i put in having handling issues had a fork seal blow out fixed that and handling was worse. Well today finally tore down to tree and yup not a smooth side to side felt notches I will call them, already have pressed off old bearing now to press on and install new races. Question can I use regular wheel bearing grease to pack new bearings? Thanks Matt
Was not as hard as I thought it would be to tear down as I had already made tools for fork and headbearing nut
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2013, 12:25:18 PM » |
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Sure, that would be fine.
Just don't use the balls and races to bottom everything out.
Doing so can cause the same damage.
Best to carefully tap the race with a drift.
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2013, 12:40:48 PM » |
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Thanks Rick I do automobile repair and have race installers so those should be no problem trying to find a piece of pipe same diam as inner section of bearing to press it onto shaft
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Daniel Meyer
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2013, 12:41:53 PM » |
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And follow the torquing procedure EXACTLY in the manual...
The Valk is a bit picky about this.
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matt
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2013, 12:59:44 PM » |
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can I use a fish scale to check load
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2013, 01:04:47 PM » |
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HEY MATT, What head bearings did you go with, OEM or ALLBALLS ?
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2013, 01:35:35 PM » |
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can I use a fish scale to check load
I've never needed to. Follow the torque procedure. I don't have the manual here to look at right now, but it has you torque it to a higher number and exercise the head, then back off and retorque to the correct number. |
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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2013, 01:50:52 PM » |
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can I use a fish scale to check load
I've never needed to. Follow the torque procedure. I don't have the manual here to look at right now, but it has you torque it to a higher number and exercise the head, then back off and retorque to the correct number. book calls for 30 lb initial torque, turn the fork side to side, back off the nut then torque to 12 lb final torque on standard and tourer, Interstate calls for 9 lbs final torque. |
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2013, 02:15:48 PM » |
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I've always used a scale to check the pre-load.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2013, 03:02:12 PM » |
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thanks I will just torque as manual says I am going with OEM, I feel they should do what there where intended to do. I can tell someone had been in there as with forks top nuts hard socket marks and one spring was upside down and when I was there I thought to check head bearing torque to find lock nut finger loose and ears not bent holding it
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2013, 06:28:22 PM » |
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You indicated you could feel notches as the handle bars were turn.....can you post a few close up shots so we might see the indexing?
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