Spoke, fucking siezed

**cheese** · 7th January 2009, 08:00

So a bunch of my spokes are seized and I can't tighten them at all.

Any tips on how to sort them? just get new ones?

**flyingcr250** · 7th January 2009, 09:53

Originally Posted by cheese

So a bunch of my spokes are seized and I can't tighten them at all.

Any tips on how to sort them? just get new ones?

i had the same problem, i sprayed crc or another penetraing fluid on them and left them for a couple of hours (with the tyre off). some of them freed up but most of them didnt. i ended up just cutting all of them and buying a spoke kit. i always spray crc on them after i wash the bike.

**cheese** · 7th January 2009, 10:14

Dam thats $135 I don't have right now....

**motorbyclist** · 7th January 2009, 10:30

whenever i've needed new spokes i've usually managed to get some second hand for relatively cheap - even if off a different bike they're usually identical

**flyingcr250** · 7th January 2009, 18:51

sometimes you can just heat the spoke with a heat gun, get it quite hot and free it up like that.

**Buddy L** · 7th January 2009, 19:51

Ive got a small butane pen torch, and a refill bottle if you want to borrow it Stev.
Had to losen up a few on my old cr.
Soak them in crc etc for a while first. But heating them up works a treat, just keep the heat off the rim and only on the spoke if you can help it.

**flyingcr250** · 7th January 2009, 20:04

Originally Posted by Buddy L

Ive got a small butane pen torch, and a refill bottle if you want to borrow it Stev.
Had to losen up a few on my old cr.
Soak them in crc etc for a while first. But heating them up works a treat, just keep the heat off the rim and only on the spoke if you can help it.

yea a butane torch would be way better.

**cheese** · 7th January 2009, 20:04

yeah I'm using freeze spray and a gas soldering pencil. Getting there slowly.

**flyingcr250** · 7th January 2009, 20:13

Originally Posted by cheese

yeah I'm using freeze spray and a gas soldering pencil. Getting there slowly.

that freeze spray is good for changing the bearings in the rear shock linkage

**flyingcr250** · 7th January 2009, 20:15

Originally Posted by flyingcr250

that freeze spray is good for changing the bearings in the rear shock linkage

and for spraying down your misses pants when she bends over ha ha ha

**cheese** · 7th January 2009, 20:58

Originally Posted by flyingcr250

and for spraying down your misses pants when she bends over ha ha ha

Your single aye?

**barty5** · 7th January 2009, 21:00

Originally Posted by cheese

Your single aye?

arnt you ment to be in the shed?? bought the Lt50 in really good nick and it even fitted in the boot once seat bars and wheels where removed.

**theblacksmith** · 8th January 2009, 17:58

80% of my spokes were seized(and loose) and I heated the spoke nut up(till a bit of smoke came out of thread) with an oxy-acetylene welding torch.Then I let it cool a bit and removed the nut,wire brushed the thread on the spoke and run a tap(M3 metric fine I think) through the spoke nut to clean it and then applied some anti-seize and chucked it back on the rim.Took a while to do them all though - but it made the job of tightening them so much easier.The rim still runs true as. The spokes were $8 each from kawasaki so I must have saved heaps as well. Hope you get them all sorted cheese.