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Author Topic: a thank you to all members  (Read 887 times)
mustang071965
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« on: June 24, 2014, 06:14:08 AM »

i would like to thank every one on this sight. i have been a member for about 5 years now. once i bought my Valkyrie i found this club. i read several post and decided this would be a good thing. so i joined. over the 5 years i have had very little problems with my Valk. but knew that if i did i could come here and find a solution to my problem if i was unable to locate it. im a Heavy Equipment Mech by trade. but like any good Mech i do not know every thing. Sunday i put in my cb radio and some head sets to the helmets. checked the helmets first every thing worked fine ( radio and com ) after plugging up the C B my radio would not come on nor did it show on the display. and i noticed the clock did not work. after checking all fuses and wires i was stumped. looked at the wire chart for the radio and the only plug connection i was unable to locate was J1. well checked the club sight and guess what you all let me know where it was under the batt box. pushed the wires under there and low and behold Radio alive. removed box fixed wires all is well. so this is a shout out to all that post here. thanks alot.
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Otus
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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2014, 05:12:14 PM »

I've also thanked the guys here for their knowledge.  I doubt there is anything about these bikes that you can't find here. I liked how the shop manual says to remove the exhaust to get the back wheel off, but on here I learned that you just take the shocks off and Jack the wheel up and take the axle out over the exhaust. I've always hated exhaust bolts on anything.
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mustang071965
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2014, 01:30:55 PM »

im with you on that Otus. i made a tool to hold the swing arm in place using the top shock bolt and lower bolt hole connected to the swing arm. one position for removing the axle bolt then let down to next position and remove tire with ease.
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lljjmm
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2014, 02:12:23 PM »

Do you have any specs on this tool you made for holding the swing arm? Makes it easier to make one up.
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Otus
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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2014, 05:25:56 AM »

I had this idea when I was changing my back tire. Couldn't you use a turnbuckle with eyelets that fit over the shock bushings and raise and lower the wheel to wherever you want it with a wrench?
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BobB
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2014, 06:21:07 AM »

I had this idea when I was changing my back tire. Couldn't you use a turnbuckle with eyelets that fit over the shock bushings and raise and lower the wheel to wherever you want it with a wrench?

Done something like that.  I shortened a cheep winch type hold down strap to do that.  This works great for hiking up the swing arm.  A turnbuckle would be slow.  I also made a holder from 1.5" wide aluminum strapping.  A picture is worth a thousand words. 


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mustang071965
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2014, 07:14:20 AM »

Otus, i will get the measurements from it this weekend. and post it here next week. there is a diagram for one in the chiltons shop manual. but i modified it for use with having a ct on the rear. the one in the manual worked when i had a mt on rear but it put a bind on the rear tire up into the fender for removing the wheel. found out that by adding a extra hole above the top hole on the diagram ( 1.5 in ) longer it allowed me to then lower the tire to just out of the fender top there by making it easy to remove and put back on.
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