KLR riders out there

[Woodman]

He reckons he may have left a spacer out, but it looks very similar to what happened to me. Eventually the sprocket carrier rubs away on the swing arm. There was melted aluminium on mine that I had to chisel off but to get it to this stage amazes me.

Link http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=692513

[FlangMasterJ]

This kind of thing happens to me all the time. One of the curses of riding a KLR.
I wonder if it happens to other brand riders as well?

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Wonder why that never happened to me when I had my KLR?

[pete376403]

That must have sounded like World War III going off. Or even if the rider had the I-Pod plugged and and playing death-metal thrash at full bore, surely the vibration must have been felt through the pegs and bars...unless he was a KTM rider in another life and considered more or less normal.

[NordieBoy]

Maybe they just had a Jardine can...

[marks]

Maybe they just had a Jardine can...

comments like that fall on deaf ears.....

[Woodman]

comments like that fall on deaf ears.....

So , pretty much everyone who has followed you.

checked my sprocket hub bearing on Saturday. Notchy and loose. It was put in before the db1k so about 3k old. The other bearings were perfect.

Has anyone got a sprocket hub they want to part with cos mines a bit fcuked really and is probly contributing towards the premature failure of the bearing.

[Padmei]

So , pretty much everyone who has followed you.

checked my sprocket hub bearing on Saturday. Notchy and loose. It was put in before the db1k so about 3k old. The other bearings were perfect.

Has anyone got a sprocket hub they want to part with cos mines a bit fcuked really and is probly contributing towards the premature failure of the bearing.

what about locktight?

[Woodman]

what about locktight?

I am loctiting it in cos the hole expanded out and never contracted when it failed so the bearing is a nice slip fit now. Loctite holds it there just fine for the duration and to be honest I prefer that sort of fit than a straight press fit anyway.

[Padmei]

I am loctiting it in cos the hole expanded out and never contracted when it failed so the bearing is a nice slip fit now. Loctite holds it there just fine for the duration and to be honest I prefer that sort of fit than a straight press fit anyway.

Coulda just said 'yep'

[marks]

So , pretty much everyone who has followed you.

checked my sprocket hub bearing on Saturday. Notchy and loose. It was put in before the db1k so about 3k old. The other bearings were perfect.

Has anyone got a sprocket hub they want to part with cos mines a bit fcuked really and is probly contributing towards the premature failure of the bearing.

I've replaced my cush drive bearing 3 times in the last 10K KM and my cush drive rubbers once.

seems to be a weak point on these beasties

lets go halves in Padmei's white chundermobile - you can have the hub and I''ll take the rest...

[Howie]

I've replaced my cush drive bearing 3 times in the last 10K KM and my cush drive rubbers once.

seems to be a weak point on these beasties

lets go halves in Padmei's white chundermobile - you can have the hub and I''ll take the rest...

I haven't replaced any of my rear wheel bearings yet, Am just starting to think about it as a preventive maintenance item at 35,000 km, still no movement in them. They do get checked/ cleaned and regreased at wheel changes. Haven't changed the cush drive rubbers yet ever. Maybe I’m just gentle on my machinery??

[Woodman]

I haven't replaced my cush drive rubbers yet either. Admittedly they are well and truly fcuked but I haven't replaced them.

[pete376403]

I was going to put this in the thread about the "new Suzuki adv bike" but it really belongs here - this is what Kawasaki should be building. Apart from the Suzuki DRZ400 forks, R1 rear shock and the (I think) 'Strom wheels its a Kawi parts bin special. Would not be so good as a a single tracker but as an adventure bike "any road, any time" (good for highways as well as gravel/back roads I could live with it.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=644390

[warewolf]

I am loctiting it in cos the hole expanded out and never contracted when it failed so the bearing is a nice slip fit now. Loctite holds it there just fine for the duration and to be honest I prefer that sort of fit than a straight press fit anyway.

I'm probably teaching you to suck eggs, but just in case: there is 'gap filler' type loctite that helps for bearings with excessive clearance to the hub.

[warewolf]

I've replaced my cush drive bearing 3 times in the last 10K KM

That does sound excessive. Do you do many water crossings? That's the worst for them. Maybe should be a 1-2000km service job to regrease them?

Also, even new seals won't work if the spacers they run on are grooved.