Bloody Triumph!!!

**Lou Girardin** · 18th October 2005, 09:22

Any importer is being derelict by not carrying commonly damaged parts, let alone normal service items like a water hose, in NZ. It's has nothing to do with JIT, it's all about these guys keeping their stock figures low.

**2much** · 18th October 2005, 12:42

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

What I do is go 10 percent over and use Loctitie 242

BTW ...HOW much for an indicator thats daylight robbery ...Hope its all sorted now and you are back on the road ...life is dull without a bike .........

Stephen ..

Cheers Stephen, Agree with using loctite, magic stuff... Although I'm inclined to be weary bout that overtightening, as you say with the aluminium and I hate trying to use easyouts to remove broken bolts (been there many times!)

Before I claimed was gonna go for some of those LED mini indicators or flush mounts..... it's just wrong when you can get a pair of aftermarket indicators for half the price of one factory one!!!

Gonna try to patch it together today.....

**Brian d marge** · 18th October 2005, 14:00

Nuts ....and bolts ...Dont worry ,,, There is a good book on the subject ,,,Carrol Shelly , nuts bolts fasteners and plumbing ...very informative read ...I have it in me workshop aind use it when I am working ,,,reminds me of whats what ....
Tou are scard of over tightening because most of our stuff is steel in to Jap butter ,,errr aluminium ,,,and its the proof strength of the aluminium that we are concerned with ,,,AND on older bikes the threads may have been assembled many times ,,,,,ie worn ,,,In this case tread carefully ..( the race bike added a ton of wieght with all the Helicoils I used As the engine comes apart often ,

But Steel bolt and a steel nut it will be the nut that will go first ..and the bolt itself will be of a low quality ...
But even after that you can tighten a 13 mm unc nut to something like 40 ft/lb on a clean dry thread ...( thats quite tight !!!!)

Right I must do something ....what with chatting to friends on skype ...and here I is getting nought done !!!

Stephen

**2much** · 18th October 2005, 23:34

Well, Here's the latest......

Managed to temporarily fix the water (cut it at the slit, then connected the 2 ends with a bit of copper pipe and a couple of hose clamps) worked a treat!

Took off for bayride as they wanted to check some stuff for the insurance claim. Everything was going sweet so decided to give it some stick out of the baypark roundabout, got maybe 600 meters when I checked the temp reading and saw it at 100c. About the same time I felt the hot coolant seep thru my jeans.

Killed the engine and came to a rolling stop with coolant pissing out all over the place. Checked my repair and it was sweet, turned out a steel pipe another water hose connected to has removed itself from the alloy head...WTF???

So tow number 2 in 5 days! thank god for AA. Dropped it off at Bayride, booted it and got a ride home with one of the young fullas.... full credit to the guys at bayride, they've been really helpful and understanding....

But I'm gettin really pissed with triumph and this lemon of a bike..... unless I damaged something when i dropped it that's causing the cooling system to over pressurise then I might have to forgive them.

Oh and cheers to the guy on the mint blue SV that turned around and came back to check I was alright... Wanna swap bikes???