Rear Axle

[maxzer1500]

Val, the torque wrench is a challenge one from Argos, has always been ok in the past, I always release the tension before putting away but I've never had it callibrated.


Red, yes the bits above and below the gap on the swing arm where the axle passes are distorted, were like this before I started fiddling.  The whole point of the fiddling was because I noticed my washer looked like a dinner plate, but nothing like it does now.


I don't think the washer I got off the chap on here was much cop though.  It was straight enough (unlike my old one) but it had deep pitting where the bolt on previous bike had pushed into it.  I turned it around so that part was agains the swing arm, I'm guessing it's thinner and weaker because of the deformation and so buckled worse than the old one.


Celtic dog, I was thinking new axle too, but I have to do everything on such a tight budget I doubt I could afford that, I tried to do it cheap and failed ha ha


I think I will take it all apart again but put the old washer on the other way round, see how that goes.  I'll only have until it gets dark tomorrow though, Saturday is fully booked up.  Don't want to miss another fazer ride out :-(


grrrrrr

  If you reverse the washer it's probably only going to flatten then dish itself with the tightness of the spindle nut. My 600 was the same so think it's normal, if you're happy with tightness of spindle, alignment and chain tension, just leave it and deal with the real issue which is the sliders/end plates. With wheel tight, nip up the first adjusting nut by one or two flats each side. I find one turn is too slack and two is too tight so i go one and a half, in other words a flat to a flat then to the next corner. Just be sure to use two spanners to lock the two nuts together and there shouldn't be any later slackness.