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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Interesting upgrade on your old swing arm - must give you some confidence in the quality of its last rebuild.
SPR:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on October 29, 2022, 04:40:26 PM ---Interesting upgrade on your old swing arm - must give you some confidence in the quality of its last rebuild.
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That was exactly what I thought
Oddjob:
--- Quote from: SPR on October 29, 2022, 04:14:02 PM ---
--- Quote from: Oddjob on October 29, 2022, 02:10:07 PM ---Your cam cover end caps are almost done Simon, they were pretty bad with contamination and under the paint/lacquer was quite a bit of odd casting marks, like the surface has a rash. Took me a good while to get rid of it, spent about 4 hours on them now and they are almost ready to polish. I'll post a pic of them when they are done.
Swinging arm with needle rollers in will be better than the standard metal bushes, I've got a set in my swinging arm. However because of the way they are constructed the original grease nipples are useless as the cage blocks the exit point off. If your going to get the old swinging arm powder coated I'd advice putting a grease nipple in the centre of the pivot tube, just drill 4mm and tap 5mm and fit a small stainless grease nipple. Needs to be done before having it powder coated obviously, a small flat spot and a copper washer under the nipple will help seal it from leakage when pushing grease down it.
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Brilliant about the cam cover caps Ken :)
The swing arm had plenty of grease in it - I wonder how it had been greased - I'll take some better pictures of it .... it had different tube and different size big end cap things that go on the ends before fitting
Thanks
Simon
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Probably greased as the bearings were fitted. The end caps are odd, it's like a washer inside a washer, same as my kit.
Oddjob:
Camcover end caps are finally done Simon, came out reasonably well. I also did a surprise for you as I remembered you needed it.
Here's some pics,
Before. As you can see the condition wasn't great, no big dents or cracks but the surface is heavily contaminated with oil and grime. There were some surface scratches and small stone strikes that needed removing.
After, not perfect but acceptable I'd say. I've replaced the O-Rings with some brand new Viton ones I'd bought for my own caps, I bought 20 so I had some extras lying around.
And the surprise, didn't replace the O-ring on this as I haven't bought those yet.
Hope you like them, I'll bung them in the post tomorrow if I get the chance. Should still have your address somewhere.
Sesman:
Wish mine looked like that😭
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