Your valued opinion please! Can I still ride with this broken?

**tommorth** · 14th February 2010, 15:49

how did it go ? bolt short may lead to the rest being under to much load and breaking stuffing swingarm then chain comes off and takes out cluch slave and cases could be expensive

A couple of the sproket bolts have been oversized probably from exactly the same reason

**oldskool** · 14th February 2010, 19:14

All good, no drama's, but that doesn't mean to say I won't have it looked at!

**Buddy L** · 14th February 2010, 20:05

I was running these "STAR WASHERS" on my bike at the time, with locktight, i got complacent and didn't check sprocket bolts for awhile. And on one race they worked lose and distoryed my hub completly.

**oldskool** · 14th February 2010, 20:13

Originally Posted by Buddy L

I was running these "STAR WASHERS" on my bike at the time, with locktight, i got complacent and didn't check sprocket bolts for awhile. And on one race they worked lose and distoryed my hub completly.

FARRR... that's extreme! Those washers look similar to the Nordlocks Tony mentioned. But I think maybe the Nords use 2 sandwiched together.

**L Rider** · 14th February 2010, 20:18

Originally Posted by Buddy L

I was running these "STAR WASHERS" on my bike at the time, with locktight, i got complacent and didn't check sprocket bolts for awhile. And on one race they worked lose and distoryed my hub completly.

Thats impressive!! Makes what happened to my bike look like a wee scratch

**Buddy L** · 14th February 2010, 21:53

And new hubs arn't cheap, $500 and thats without getting it laced up to the rim. Did that my self to save a bit of coin.

**B0000M** · 14th February 2010, 22:44

heres my opinion.

get your fucked hub.

throw fucked hub in the bin

replace fucked hub
( http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/KTM-R...Q5fAccessories )

re lace rim yourself (search forum for how to - its easy)

replace sprocket.

replace studs / bolts & nuts & washers

live happily ever after, having only wasted a couple of hundred bucks and have brand new parts.

= Win

**howdamnhard** · 15th February 2010, 00:44

Replace it. Then use a different style stiff nut. Maybe a nylock or a metal stiff nut where it has the metal locking part running around the whole circumference,instead of just 2 places. Otherwise you could use castelleated nuts and split pins but they will be harder to obtain the correct torque and line up. Go to any engineering supplies shop, they should be able to fix you up.

**Ktmboy** · 15th February 2010, 07:59

No where near the same beast Buddy L. Have a look at the website and play the Junkers test video. Try to understand the dynamics of how they work.
I am quite happy to prove that Castlelated nuts, Nyloc, double nut, star washers and spring washers are no match for this system.

Boooms idea is still the best.

**barty5** · 15th February 2010, 09:53

burn it buy the yamaha you where thinking of

**Keithf** · 15th February 2010, 16:57

Dunno about that the bolts on my mates WR 450 have started to work themselves loose for some reason and have gouged a chunk out of his swing arm-mind you his style of maintenance is to fix things when they are broke....

**Factoryjohn** · 16th February 2010, 21:46

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Those nuts and bolts don't look like the right ones.

Steve

Dont look like the right bolts to me either

**laserracer** · 17th February 2010, 13:07

Originally Posted by barty5

burn it buy the yamaha you where thinking of

LOL...was kinda thinkin the same thing

**1vanvan1** · 17th February 2010, 15:01

Originally Posted by R6_kid

Looks like it was overtightened. Also, why weren't you using lock nuts?

You fail gareth. There are lock nuts on top of the standard nuts. I know what you mean though. You should of used self locking nuts with a nyloc insert.

Did you torque them to the correct torque value or just as hard as you could? I just learnt all about correct torque and stuff. If you damage the threads by over tightening youll make a lot more work for yourself.