Furyos J
20th July 2012, 08:10
Thought id do a bit of maintanance on the mrs trx400ex, and fix up the sloppy swing arm bearings. Pivot bolt was quite stuck.
Started out with the usual heat and hammer, didnt work. Next was heat and sledge hammer, still didnt work............ then realy wailing on it with the sledge........didnt budge. Next was heat and rattle gun on the bolt head.............thought it moved a little, but that was just the bolt head shearing off :brick:
Next was to cut the swing arm bolt, so i could get the motor out of the frame........ the cut between frame and swing arm was easy with a sabre saw, next cut was between motor casing and swing arm, but this required cutting the swingarm bearing inner collar, wrecked 4 dewalt steel cutting blades.......rersorted to using a carbide bit on a die grinder....... ok......motor is out now.
set up motor in my little 6 tonne press to press remains of bolt out of the engine casing, would not budge.........motor goes to local bike shop.....week and a half later he gives up on it as bolt has hardened due to my cutting with carbide bit and he cant even drill it out now.........
took it to Karl at cemeck engineering, 3/4 of an hour later...... your motor is ready mate.
took the chance to strip the frame back , repaint it, clean every part of the bike, new linkage, swing arm shock bearings. overhauled the 3 calipers and greased and checked everything else.
I will never forget to put copper coat anti sieze on a pivot bolt again!!!!!
Started out with the usual heat and hammer, didnt work. Next was heat and sledge hammer, still didnt work............ then realy wailing on it with the sledge........didnt budge. Next was heat and rattle gun on the bolt head.............thought it moved a little, but that was just the bolt head shearing off :brick:
Next was to cut the swing arm bolt, so i could get the motor out of the frame........ the cut between frame and swing arm was easy with a sabre saw, next cut was between motor casing and swing arm, but this required cutting the swingarm bearing inner collar, wrecked 4 dewalt steel cutting blades.......rersorted to using a carbide bit on a die grinder....... ok......motor is out now.
set up motor in my little 6 tonne press to press remains of bolt out of the engine casing, would not budge.........motor goes to local bike shop.....week and a half later he gives up on it as bolt has hardened due to my cutting with carbide bit and he cant even drill it out now.........
took it to Karl at cemeck engineering, 3/4 of an hour later...... your motor is ready mate.
took the chance to strip the frame back , repaint it, clean every part of the bike, new linkage, swing arm shock bearings. overhauled the 3 calipers and greased and checked everything else.
I will never forget to put copper coat anti sieze on a pivot bolt again!!!!!