axle too short?

[geniusloerts]

here is one for all of you......

on my brothers xs the real axle bolt is not long enough to place the cotter pin through the castle nut. i tried my extra axle out of my other xs SF from 79 but it was the same length.......his xs is a '80 standard


any ideas?????

[fredintoon]

A washer too many?

here is one for all of you...... on my brothers xs the real axle bolt is not long enough to place the cotter pin through the castle nut. i tried my extra axle out of my other xs SF from 79 but it was the same length.......his xs is a '80 standard - - - any ideas?????

Hi geniusloerts,
was it always too short or did it suddenly become so at the last tire change?
The one says "wrong part" and the other says "assembly error".

[geniusloerts]

it has always been too short in the 2 years i have known the bike.....and since he has had it. its almost like the swing arm has been spread apart.....

is there a diffrence between standard and special axle shafts?

[randy]

IIRC, the axles are the same. Even if the swing arm has been 'spread apart', the axle fits inside the swingarm pinch area (right side), so it should line up on the cotter side (left). Are you sure you've got it torqued down properly? Has the P.O. used the correct wheel bearing on the left? JAT.

[geniusloerts]

its torqued properly...... the only thing i can think of is a wrong spacer.....but the only diffrence is one and its less than 1/8" difference

[geniusloerts]

on my brothers from the inside of the swing are on the right side to the calaper housing braket is .68"

on my spare 79 is .32"

[geniusloerts]

well i fixed it.......it turns out that there was a spacer in there that was not supose to be.....it was one off of the front wheel of another bike...so i donated my caliper bracket off my spare bike and voola he notw has a pin to keep the back end from falling apart

[trbig]

Any luck on finding another motor for your bike?


Tod

[geniusloerts]

head in the sand Tod?

where have you beem man? did you not catch the last post on the "sad day and a tear shed" thread............

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...sad+day&page=3

its in its going and I have all the parts to fix the other motor as a back up or its going in my brothers bike, then i will rebuild his to hang on to.