Chain replacement

[Sannox]

41,001 miles on my 2002 foxeye and it's time to replace the original chaine, love scottoilers :-)

My question is, can you fit an endless loop chain on or do you need to use a riviter tool?

[Ruby Racing]

If you drop your swing arm out you can fit an endless chain.

[rhinoeli]

Did you ever had the swingarm off? If not, now it's a good time for a clean and greasing. If you can not buy an endless chain I suggest you to rivet it at your workbench vise, much easier than after installed on the sprockets.

[unfazed]

Yep Scottoilers are great, I replaced mine after 42000 miles.

Buy an endless chain and drop the swinging arm to fit it
It will give you a chance to inspect the suspension linkage bearings at the same time.

[Sannox]

Good call on dropping the swing arm out, cheers guys :-) Not dropped it out and I know I need to check over the shock linkage as well so now being a good time as I've got the bike stripped to do some other work, like brake pads, fork oil, respray, coolant change, check steering head bearings after replacing them a while back etc, you know how it is :-)

[Ruby Racing]

Dropping the swing arm is really straight forward and pretty quick. You could do it with the rear wheel in place, but much easier with it removed.

[Sannox]

Dropped the swing arm out tonight, rear wheel out 1st, then back in so when I undid the swing arm bolt, I didn't tip the bike :-) all came out without any problems, should have dismantled the lower shock bracket 1st though, but wasn't a problem, all cleaned up, no pitting on any of the shafts though the grease was drying up, so good call to drop out the swing arm, also gives me a chance to get it all clean under there as well as change the rear brake pads.

Quick call round to M&P tomorrow for a gold X ring chain and sprocket set for £97 and will be all back together tomorrow night :-)

Front forks oil change after that.

[Sannox]

All stripped.

[Chris]

Nice!

Much easier to get some cleaning done with all that faffery out the way.

Chris

[Sannox]

First time I've had the swing arm out Chris, was easy enough, can finally clean the shock too as well as everything else :-) Resprayed, again, metallic black, they never did black on the foyeye model for some reason, new original decals to go back on too.

[Chris]

looking forward to the finished pictures!

Think that's next winters job for me, remove swing arm, get it powder coated gloss black, new bearings etc.

Chris

[Sannox]

There is a pic of this from when I origianlly did the respray in the show me your Fazer bit, but will bung it here, this is from 2 years ago. Was never happy with never being able to get the engine clean, however, I have a plan.....

[darrsi]

Thought M&P only supplied split chains?

[unfazed]

Thought M&P only supplied split chains?

Usually with a soft link

[Sannox]

You're right, split link, to my surprise, when I opened the box, however, seems all chains are supplied like that unless OEM and to be honest, I wanted a chain that lasts even longer than the 41k miles the last one did :-) Got some X ring gold chain and the scottoiler should see it past another 41k