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Sproket bolts shearing my swing arm!

THEDUKE

THEDUKE

2011-07-24 10:26:00 UTC

Hey all, this happened to me about 3 month ago where I noticed some silver shaving on the floor under my bike upon inspection the oval nuts on the back bolts that hold the sproket on are coming loose and standing proud which aree in turn grinding my swing arm away anyway I took the wheel to bits and tightened everything up....sweet! But after a ring yesterday I was tinkering and noticed the same thing again silver filings again not to the same extreme as last time but there are 3/4 nuts that have worked loose. So wondering if anyone else has had this problem and knows of a solution other than putting like a metal clue on it but that would mean getting the angle grinder on them when I want to take them off?

MADDOG53

MADDOG53

2011-07-24 11:15:00 UTC

Common problem,,,,,do a tear down and lock tite the fook out of em , and re-assemble,,,,

BASH69

BASH69

2011-07-24 15:38:00 UTC

What Maddog said - locktite the shit outta em!

KTM666

KTM666

2011-07-24 17:20:00 UTC

x 3 There is a tread about this

steeeve66

steeeve66

2011-07-24 17:40:00 UTC

I bought my bike used and noticed the same thing a week after taking delivery. Only the way I found out was that I noticed one of the nuts falling to the ground upon setting her over on the kick stand. Definitely take it apart and from what I'm told, use the blue locktite and retorque. Like the guys said, there's another thread here somewhere covering this. P.S. Mine had about 4700 miles on it. Good luck.

THEDUKE

THEDUKE

2011-07-24 18:54:00 UTC

me too, take the wheel off, take all the bolts off clean them and refit every thing to the correct torque with a blob of locktite...

KTM666

KTM666

2011-07-25 07:00:00 UTC

Cheers for that, just done it so i hope that will be the end of it.