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  1. BigLenny
    Brian, I definitely won't! You know, I am very upset with the shop that did this, but, I do wonder why Yamaha couldn't have just manufactured a steel threaded sleeve into the fork so it would lessen the possibilty of this happening?
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    Okay, will do. I have the benefit of my cousin who is a 35 year lead machinist at the largest mfg of oil valves in the nation. He is very comfortable tapping and installing these. When I told him that you guys suggested this, he said that is exactly what he was going to suggest. I offered him a nice dinner for he and his wife to assist me with this. LOL.
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    So, I find a helicoil that fits my axle, then I tap my fork the size of the helicoil, then I red Loctite the helicoil into the fork, then I screw my axle in?
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    Well, As you know from reading my other thread, I had a freakin monster of a time getting my front axle to break lose once I took the pinch bolt out. I worked with it for about an our at night, and then got on it the next morning. I had to grunt, holler, and pull with all my 300lbs of weight to finally get it to break lose. As I'm finding out from some of you and a few friends locally, once I took the pinch bolt out, it shouldn't have been that hard. Well, now I'm realizing why there was a problem. When I got the axle out, I had noticed the threads had what looked like some sort of maybe thread locker stuff on it, and they also had what I now realize was some thread trash on them. At that time, I just cleaned them up real good, and took a brush to them and got them shiny looking again. I wasn't even thinking to look at the threads inside the fork tube. Well, today I got my new tire on the rim, and started back remounting the wheel on the fork tubes. When I got the axle snug, I put my torque wrench on it, set to 56 ftlbs, and I didn't turn it hardly any and I felt the threads get weak. The torque wrench hadn't even got to the point of clicking yet. I stopped instantly and realized what I had felt. I backed the axle back out, and looked inside the fork tube and confirmed what my suspicions were. The threads were in pretty ruff shape and had been semi stripped. I now realize that the last time I had the tire replaced at the bike shop, they must've overtightend and partially stripped it, so they then put a thread locker on it to make it stay in place. That had to be why it took an act of God to get it to break loose. So, I'm in a predicament. I need suggestions for next steps. Do I have to buy a new fork tube? Has anyone had to go through this and maybe fixed it another way? If I do have to buy a new fork tube, does anyone have one that I could buy cheap? etc, etc, etc. The suckish thing is, the shop that I had the work done at, went out of business, then was bought and opened by new owners. So, there's no way I can get retribution. Need help, please.
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    Uh oh. When I took the axle out, it looked like it had some Loctite on the threads. Well, when I was reinstalling it just a while ago, I was threading the axle back in. When I put the torque wrench on it to torque it 56lbs, right before it clicked, it felt like the threads went weak. I think the last person that did it, over tightened it, and then put Loctite on it to make it stay.
  6. BigLenny
    Thanks for everyones help. I'll be sure and adhere to those torque specs when I re-mount.
  7. BigLenny
    Had every intention of my honey and I riding up to meet some of you folks for the first time. However, this past weekend we made the decision to move our Smokies/Outer Banks bike trip up a week and leave on the 31st instead of the 7th. Hope you all have a blast, and maybe we'll catch up with some of you in the near future to put faces with names that I talk to on this site.
  8. BigLenny
    Hmmm. Too late. LOL.
  9. BigLenny
    Thanks everyone. I finally got it to break loose. The penetrating oil did it. If it's done one thing, it's made me more confident in feeling that that sucker would never come out while I'm riding. Lol.
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    I tried a breaker bar. I'm tempted to spray some penetrating oil on it, but I'm concerned if I do that, it might effect it staying tight when I re-install it.
  11. BigLenny
    The sucker is tighter n a tick on a hounds back! Can't get it to break loose.
  12. BigLenny
    Yeah, I mean right hand thread. Righty tighty, lefty loosy?
  13. BigLenny
    Decided to take my front wheel of myself this time to take it to a bike shop to have a tire mounted on it. Usually I just have the shop do the whole job. So, my question is, what the heck do I have to do to get the axle out? I loosened the allen head pinch bolt, but I can't get the axle to break lose. I'm using a 22mm socket with a medium size breaker bar. Makes me wonder if I should get out the ole impact wrench. This axle is a left hand thread, right? Thanks for suggestions, Lynn
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    Great info! Thanks so much. And, yes, I WILL remember to turn the petcock off if it totally remove the tank. Lol. I'm gonna try to do it by just unbolting it and raising it for just enough room. Probably will you the towel trick as described above. BTW, does anybody have any jazzy plugs that you recommend that perform better than the stock ones?
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    Thanks Steve, Do you take the tank completely off, or lift it just enough to do the work. Is there anything hooked to the tank besides the fuel line?
  16. BigLenny
    I'm gonna change my spark plugs myself. Looking at that project closely, It appears I might have to raise the gas tank to get to the front two plugs, Am I thinking right?
  17. BigLenny
    I don't see a number for the RSTD. The .750 number is for that Royal Star bike they made from 1996 to 2001. They made the RSTD all the way up until last year.
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    Thats pretty dang cool! Does it come with the girl?
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    I'm sure several of you have thought about this already, but for the ones that haven't, heres a suggestion. We live in Arkansas. Each year we get a large number of tornados. We usually rank nationally from 3rd to 5th in the count of tornados. Being able to watch live weather updates is a matter of life and death in this area of the country. So, as you can imagine, having our Dish network go out because of heavy rain at an inopportune time while a tornado is dancing around in a storm heading our way, well, it aint cool. So, by the suggestion of our cable rep, I went to Best Buy and purchased a standard UHF TV antenna and plugged it into the back of our TV. These new antenna's don't look like the old rabbit ears we all used to use. This one looks like a plate. It just sits behind my TV out of site and bingo bango we have free high def service of the local ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX channels. When the Dish goes out because of a storm, I just use my handy remote to move to the TV input on my TV, and watch the free channels to keep up to date. Just trying to help.
  20. BigLenny
    Now thats the kind of tidbits I'm looking for. So, the Venture has a different gear ratio and more HP than the RSTD?
  21. BigLenny
    Randy, Your experience is exactly what I picture myself doing. I love my RSTD, and I love how convertable it is. I would probably keep it. The 1st Gen is definitely a 1993. The last year they made them.
  22. BigLenny
    Yep, I'm seeing a trailer in my future.
  23. BigLenny
    Very good point. I am seriously intrigued by the 1st Gens, but A. being "faster" isn't that much of a selling point to me anymore, and B. I'm a little concerned about getting myself into a situation where my long range tourer is something that I constantly have to tinker with. Maybe my solution is to buy a 2nd Gen for my serious long range touring, and buy a 1st Gen for a cool project bike. LOL.
  24. BigLenny
    Meach, This is exactly what I'm tossing around in my head to do. The only trump card would be if Yammy shocked the bike world and came out with a nicely updated Venture. I would probably then pull the trigger and buy new.
  25. BigLenny
    Great info so far. I'm not thinking I want to add fairings and trunks to my RSTD. I kinda like bikes that already have all that in a factory made cohesive unit. There is also a good chance that I will be keeping my RSTD as a short tripper. I'm also trying figure out what the real practical value there is in owning a Venture over an RSTD. I know the fairing and the radio and CB and all of those goodies are attractive to me, but on the other hand, there's no way I can pack near the crap in that trunk as I can in our huge freakin Saddlemen t bag with the roll top we have. I'll for sure give up some luggage space there. Doesn't matter, I still want a full dresser. Lol.
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