Well I finally got around to replacing the complete final drive I bought off a member on the VRCC board. He triked out his bike at 20K miles so the parts were like new.
I replaced the pumpkin, drive shaft, universal joint & New Boot, Flange, wheel dampners, all new O rings, greased and lubed and ready for Colorado.
I had one hiccup and it was a royal bitch. The rear caliper stop bolt decided to weld itself into the swing arm
I could not back it out for the life of me. I tried heat and banging and spraying break free and letting it set for awhile.
I finally decided that I was going to cut the bolt off. I had already exhausted all ways to remove it, without going to my stash of TNT
Had no clue that this bolt was a case hardened steal bolt, only had a small amount of thread that screwed into the swing arm and no threads on the end that goes into the caliper mount. So I said I will just grab the sawzall and make quick time of this, get the wheel off and then worry about backing out the bolt, at least I will have room to work.
Long story short, after going thru 12 sawzall metal blades it finally cut thru
Now I was clear to back the bolt out. I knew that I was going to need a new one so I ordered one from Partzilla, and I paid next day and still waiting on it.
The bolt from hell did not want to budge, so I heated up a 13mm red hot and Hammered it on to the stripped out 14mm bolt. I let it cool for awhile so the socket would shrink down around it. Then I re heated the back side of the bolt where I sawed it off, and beat the living crap out of it with a punch and small sledge.
Went to the 1/2 inch drive ratchet and finally she broke loose? I have No Freaking idea why this happened, I have all these parts off the bike every 10K miles, which comes pretty quick the way I ride? No Clue, so just waiting on that new bolt which will get anti seize instead of just grease, and I will get to see how tight her ass is now
