30-01-13, 12:34 PM
(30-01-13, 11:14 AM)alexanderfitu link Wrote: So haynes matches up with the yam service manual, however if the slack was adjusted on the center stand, then the slack would go down, when one person sits on it normally, and then go down again with 2 people on it.
That is Ade's point, that the tension would be too high with 2 people on it for example, possibley runing the output bearing, possibly heating the chain up to cause failure etc. Its not the numbers that are being argued.
I don't know if the tension would increase at all with pillions aboard as I never checked it and neither has Ade. That's why I shot down his figures and his assumptions until he comes up with hard facts.
Ade assumes that when a pillion sits on the bike that the slack will be "taken up" because it seems obvious to the mind....yes?
He also assumed that when you make an adjustment on the centrestand and then drop it on the sidestand that the slack would be taken up there also because that is obvious to the mind also and commonsense....yes?. But I know for fact that the latter one is FALSE from tried experience. There is no difference in adjusting from the centerstand and sidestand so the OP wasted his time!
Hard to believe isn't it? Do it yourself. Put a mark on a link on your chain. Take a measurement on the centrestand and then from the sidestand.....no difference!! The obvious and common sense is blown right out of the water. So adjusting on the centrestand is quite safe.
Also, until somebody takes a measurement with and without a pillion on board, I'll keep an open mind too on weather the slack is been taking up there too and by any significant difference. I like to deal in hard fact and not wild assumptions. Cheers.