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Held up
There it is, the pivot bolt for the rear fork ( or swinging arm is you prefer) on my XS650. I've been around a month getting that out, granted that mostly means a few hours a day at the weekends, heat, brute force, ( I'm not so good at that not so much strength) all the ideas I could come up with and finally Mayday Bank Holiday I moved it, a little, then a little more then finally all the way out.
The bolt is destroyed though, I had to cut the threaded end off because I'd mushroomed the thing, but e bay soon turned up a replacement. Now to decide what to do with the rear fork, the plastic bushes seem fine but I am considering putting in some needle rollers. A conversion set being not much more than the new end caps which I cremated and the shims which were missing. Other stuff to do first though, now I can get at the bit frame properly.
Held up
There it is, the pivot bolt for the rear fork ( or swinging arm is you prefer) on my XS650. I've been around a month getting that out, granted that mostly means a few hours a day at the weekends, heat, brute force, ( I'm not so good at that not so much strength) all the ideas I could come up with and finally Mayday Bank Holiday I moved it, a little, then a little more then finally all the way out.
The bolt is destroyed though, I had to cut the threaded end off because I'd mushroomed the thing, but e bay soon turned up a replacement. Now to decide what to do with the rear fork, the plastic bushes seem fine but I am considering putting in some needle rollers. A conversion set being not much more than the new end caps which I cremated and the shims which were missing. Other stuff to do first though, now I can get at the bit frame properly.