{"id":77986,"date":"2010-02-19T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T02:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=77986"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:19","slug":"bandit-1200-rear-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20100219\/everyday-events\/bandit-1200-rear-maintenance","title":{"rendered":"Bandit 1200 rear maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60945903_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60945903_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60945903_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60945903_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60945903_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60945903_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Good morning!<br \/>\nSo today I&#8217;ve packed my schedule tight from the morning, just like my planner says,<br \/>\nbut nothing&#8217;s gone smoothly since the start of the year.<br \/>\nI wonder if my poor efficiency is just a sign of a poor mind\u2026<br \/>\nThe model year is recent, the mileage is low, and the owner brought it in clean, so it doesn&#8217;t take much time.<br \/>\nI wonder how tight the linkage bolts are.<br \/>\nWhy is there no grease on the bolts and nuts at all?<br \/>\nAnyway,<br \/>\nI finish disassembly and wash everything three times: a rough wash, a wash on the cleaning stand, and then polish and inspect before a final wash.<br \/>\nThe pivot and link collars show no step wear, just light contact, so I polish them lightly on the lathe.<br \/>\nI give them a good polish.<br \/>\nPivot, upper and lower link plates, link mounting section, rear suspension lower mount\u2014<br \/>\nI check the direction of load and assemble the collars.<br \/>\nThe grease is the usual white stuff from Newtech.<br \/>\nWhen disassembling, I also clean the chain slider and give it a light oil, which really improves chain movement.<br \/>\nPlus, if I clean and oil the chain adjustment bolts too, it makes adjustment easier.<br \/>\nYep, looking good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Good morning! So today I&#8217;ve packed my schedule tight from the morning, just like my planner says, but nothing&#8217;s gone smoothly since the start of the year. I wonder if my poor efficiency is just a sign of a poor mind\u2026 The model year is recent, the mileage is low, and the owner brought it in clean, so it doesn&#8217;t take much time. I wonder how tight the linkage bolts are. Why is there no grease on the bolts and nuts at all? Anyway, I finish disassembly and wash everything three times: a rough wash, a wash on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[1922,55],"class_list":["post-77986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bandit","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}