And now we move on to rear maintenance!
The “L” gave us trouble the other day, but the “K” came right out ★
It’s in pretty nice condition
The sleeve inside is in excellent shape too—made us smile ★
I wonder if bikes from this era just run a bit oilier—we’ll take it!
Here it comes! The chain slider bolt seized up and snapped ⇒ We center-drilled it with an M4
When we tried to remove it, the threads were stripped, so we went with a helicoil…
We only had a damaged helicoil on hand, and it was too long, so we gave up!
But we wanted to get the stand back on! So we rushed over to Togashi Engineering on the Sportster!
We picked up about six 1-diameter inserts and brought them back to install.
The new ones without any set-in went in smoothly ★
(The bad ones get tossed.)
It’s looking pretty clean—we gave it a thorough wash
All cleaned up with plenty of grease, it slides right through
The frame up to “K” doesn’t have swingarm pivot adjustment, so we use washers to dial it in
But this bike had a pretty big gap…
Ideally we’d get it tight…but it won’t fit
So we fiddled around trying different shims ★
Anyway, the stand works now—all good!
