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Center stand and spring bearings stuck

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Sesman:
Alex, pardon me for asking, but what do you mean by “Spring bearing”?

alexdecker:

--- Quote from: Sesman on February 27, 2022, 08:37:22 PM ---Alex, pardon me for asking, but what do you mean by “Spring bearing”?

--- End quote ---

The swingarm shock mount bushings. Sorry, "spring bearings" was rather lazy and unprecise…

Oddjob:
Yes Alex, they need to come out. Do the hacksaw method, less chance of damaging the welding around the fitting.

AshimotoK0:
Never had much luck with the hacksaw method  on centre stand pivot tube ...guess mine must have been super corroded in... plus it's quite hard to cut though the walls of the pivot tube at the centre without marking the ends of the stand ... (perhaps my hacksaw skills are not on the Allen Millyard scale  ;D).

Drilled out about half a dozen of them out  last year though... with good success .. because they are tubular the drill bit centres pretty well ... needs lots of cutting paste though and a decent set of drill bits.

smoothoperator:
I think it possibly comes down to what tools you have available, everybody has a hacksaw but I'm guessing Ash you used a pillar drill? If I had six to get out I'd buy a pillar drill! Just one then get yourself a good hacksaw blade, I used a Bahco and had to grind away a millimetre all along the top of the blade before I could fit it through the tube. If you used an ordinary hand held drill then fair play to you Ash.

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