01-03-16, 01:31 PM
Thanks for the input guys, good to know i'm not alone with the welding solution. The guy who did the weld initially suggested welding the nut on but the way I see it is if the weld on the nut cracks it will fly off, if you weld the top the splines and it cracks its still not going to get over the spot weld and there is one on each side so.....not ideal but hopefully safe enough.
I had considered getting a scotoiler as mentioned as I've heard this can double the life of your C&S and would be alot longer before I would need to worry about it. Certainly glad to hear your 50k miles on, makes me abit more confident about it.
I'm usually a big fan of doing things right but when you need the bike daily and this happens there is not a lot else you can do i guess. I was worried people were going to say the weld job was dangerous, also abit of a confidence boost.
My bikes a 99 and it didn't have the wide nut on, I had heard something about this issue and was planning on getting one if I found it didn't when I did the job.......bit late now i guess.
I had considered getting a scotoiler as mentioned as I've heard this can double the life of your C&S and would be alot longer before I would need to worry about it. Certainly glad to hear your 50k miles on, makes me abit more confident about it.
I'm usually a big fan of doing things right but when you need the bike daily and this happens there is not a lot else you can do i guess. I was worried people were going to say the weld job was dangerous, also abit of a confidence boost.
My bikes a 99 and it didn't have the wide nut on, I had heard something about this issue and was planning on getting one if I found it didn't when I did the job.......bit late now i guess.