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I have looked all over the site not expecting to be the only one with this problem.
Yesterday was the day to install new dust seals on the forks.
Anyway this was all pretty easy up until I was reinstalling the front wheel and brakes. I had drag on the left side caliper holder. Right side was not dragging but was not in the center either. By the way when I removed the calipers I did not break them apart so as not to have to do a bleed job to. I checked the Haynes manual and found nothing about this condition.
Come to find out the front forks are not necessarily lined up rotationally after the wheel is installed and touque’d down. If you look on the left side between the fork and speedo gear there should be a gap between the two. Yeah I know about the lineup slot on the speedo thing to the fork. The placement of the front axel on the left side is critical to the correct spacing of the two forks. The large diameter of the axel on the left side must contact the speedo to provide the correct spacing (about 1/16”) and alignment of the front wheel or you will get wheel wobble and caliper housing drag.
To get away from having the trouble I did.
1)Install Wheel.
2)Install Axel with pull hole horizontal to the ground (helps w/ rust).
3)Place Axel against speedo leaving about 1/16” between it and lower left fork, not up tight to the fork, speedo should move slightly when twisted.
4)Install axel nut and torque.
5)Install cotter key (Big thing I had a shop do fork seals 5 years ago, I looked it over, paid the shop, drove about ten miles, got wobbly, looked down between the fairing and the tank, low and behold no nut, got a permanent crease in the seat).
6)Install calipers both sides.
7)Rotate wheel should rotate freely
8)Pump up the breaks
9)Check everything 3-9 times
10)Ride SAFE
Yesterday was the day to install new dust seals on the forks.
Anyway this was all pretty easy up until I was reinstalling the front wheel and brakes. I had drag on the left side caliper holder. Right side was not dragging but was not in the center either. By the way when I removed the calipers I did not break them apart so as not to have to do a bleed job to. I checked the Haynes manual and found nothing about this condition.
Come to find out the front forks are not necessarily lined up rotationally after the wheel is installed and touque’d down. If you look on the left side between the fork and speedo gear there should be a gap between the two. Yeah I know about the lineup slot on the speedo thing to the fork. The placement of the front axel on the left side is critical to the correct spacing of the two forks. The large diameter of the axel on the left side must contact the speedo to provide the correct spacing (about 1/16”) and alignment of the front wheel or you will get wheel wobble and caliper housing drag.
To get away from having the trouble I did.
1)Install Wheel.
2)Install Axel with pull hole horizontal to the ground (helps w/ rust).
3)Place Axel against speedo leaving about 1/16” between it and lower left fork, not up tight to the fork, speedo should move slightly when twisted.
4)Install axel nut and torque.
5)Install cotter key (Big thing I had a shop do fork seals 5 years ago, I looked it over, paid the shop, drove about ten miles, got wobbly, looked down between the fairing and the tank, low and behold no nut, got a permanent crease in the seat).
6)Install calipers both sides.
7)Rotate wheel should rotate freely
8)Pump up the breaks
9)Check everything 3-9 times
10)Ride SAFE
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