What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

[leehenty]

Just a round bit with a 26mm slot milled through. Easy to make. Just need internal dia and I'm set.

[Snowbird]

Do it on the end of a 3/8 socket and easy to post too, just need a long extension bar.

I assumed it'd be a hex.

[leehenty]

I can do that sure

[dablik]

Ah I see, didn't realise! I'll bear that in mind next time. Just went out to shed to check the one I can't quite torque, and I'd stood it up in a tub just in case it leaked, and there was prob 3 or 4 drops in there, so better than I'd expected. If this dam rain stops today I'll get it back on bike and hopefully torqued. If not, and anymore oil dribbles, I'll open the top and just pop a few drops in when I can get it back on.

Er scuse, did you read the post up there, trying to help, it's a simple way without special tools.

[alanfavell]

Bought it a 3 tooth less rear sprocket (39) as a motorway fuel economy device - cruising speed will be about 400RPM less than 42 tooth and a cruise of 260 minutes (Durham to Farnborough) means a theoretical 260x400 =  104000 less revolutions each way. If you divide by 4 (fuel strokes) that equals about 50000 fuel injections less per return trip = it won't take long to get my £15 investment back.....will be fitting it ASAP and reporting a while dafter.

 

Please - no comment about having to rev harder to get going etc. This is intended as Mway test.

[Kelpie]

Rode the twins to Milford on Sea for fish n chips in a gale.  Yum!

[butcher650]

Er scuse, did you read the post up there, trying to help, it's a simple way without special tools.

Apologies Dabs, I hadn't seen your post. Must've missed it in the madness. I'd be interested to know what the other end of the broom handle/wood stick looks like!

[dablik]

Apologies Dabs, I hadn't seen your post. Must've missed it in the madness. I'd be interested to know what the other end of the broom handle/wood stick looks like!

Dont have a photo but whatever you use you simply need to cut the end into a wedge shape so that it wedges between the flat side of damper rod and the wall of fork lower, this will prevent twisting, if you fit it to a work bench as i did do NOT tighten the bolt through the caliper bolt bracket up tight, just firm as you dont want to snap it, set up like this made tightening those bolts up a doddle..

 

Edit... i made my wedge approx 2-3" long.

This post was last modified: 07-06-2020, 07:48 AM by dablik.

[Rallyist]

Bought it a 3 tooth less rear sprocket (39) as a motorway fuel economy device - cruising speed will be about 400RPM less than 42 tooth and a cruise of 260 minutes (Durham to Farnborough) means a theoretical 260x400 =  104000 less revolutions each way. If you divide by 4 (fuel strokes) that equals about 50000 fuel injections less per return trip = it won't take long to get my £15 investment back.....will be fitting it ASAP and reporting a while dafter.

 

Please - no comment about having to rev harder to get going etc. This is intended as Mway test.

Did that on mine years ago to get the annoying vibration resonance at motorway cruising speed doesn't make any real improvement on fuel consumption. :good:

[alanfavell]

Ta, on a 9er Graham?

[Catteeclan]

Bought it a 3 tooth less rear sprocket (39) as a motorway fuel economy device - cruising speed will be about 400RPM less than 42 tooth and a cruise of 260 minutes (Durham to Farnborough) means a theoretical 260x400 =  104000 less revolutions each way. If you divide by 4 (fuel strokes) that equals about 50000 fuel injections less per return trip = it won't take long to get my £15 investment back.....will be fitting it ASAP and reporting a while dafter.

 

Please - no comment about having to rev harder to get going etc. This is intended as Mway test.

Did this on my last 2 niners but haven't to this one, don't know why although I don't use it for much distance work now.



Glen, getting them bottom bolt tight is often a bugga, but not with an air gun. I trust you fitted a new copper washer.

[Rallyist]

Ta, on a 9er Graham?

Yes on my 2003 that my grandsons now got, 'chrisr' road it in France and made some comment as befits a suvener. :good: :hide:  Haven't got round to it on my current one as it is not in need of sprocket kit, maybe next time wheel comes out for a tyre. :good:

[alanfavell]

Thanks.

[chrisr]

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Yes on my 2003 that my grandsons now got, 'chrisr' road it in France and made some comment as befits a suvener.

Racist! I’m sure my comment was very supportive and informative! (No idea what it was though!)

This post was last modified: 07-06-2020, 11:58 AM by chrisr.

[leehenty]

Does Brumm count as The North Graham?

[Rallyist]

Lee anything above watford is the north according to suveners :hide:

[steve27bha]

Do it on the end of a 3/8 socket and easy to post too, just need a long extension bar.

I assumed it'd be a hex.

 

 

Dont have a photo but whatever you use you simply need to cut the end into a wedge shape so that it wedges between the flat side of damper rod and the wall of fork lower, this will prevent twisting, if you fit it to a work bench as i did do NOT tighten the bolt through the caliper bolt bracket up tight, just firm as you dont want to snap it, set up like this made tightening those bolts up a doddle..

 

Edit... i made my wedge approx 2-3" long.

 

Howzabout this item - wedge in metal on a 3/8 socket. £16 eBay

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JMP-Fork-Damp...0290.m3507

This post was last modified: 07-06-2020, 10:28 PM by steve27bha.

[chrisr]

Lee anything above watford is the north according to suveners :hide:

Too right guvnor!

[peter-may]

 

 

 

Howzabout this item - wedge in metal on a 3/8 socket. £16 eBay

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JMP-Fork-Damp...0290.m3507

 

Doh!! That's almost exactly what I used, but mine was fettled from something I found in my old dad's tool box.

I'll try to post up a pic and dimensions when I get home . Thought I'd invented something!

[leehenty]

Lee anything above watford is the north according to suveners :hide:

Ooh I'm officially a Northerner then.