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Title: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: amamet on July 13, 2019, 05:48:42 PM

putting my 77 lemans back together from being apart since last year, after reinstalling the triple clamps, the top triple has about an 1/8" play up and down.  I definitely don't remember that when I took it apart. the head nut is longer than the body of the upper triple so I don't know how it would be flush anyway. it appears to be flush in older photos of my bike.  do I just raise the upper triple when I lock it onto the forks?  the second photo is me just holding the triple up to nut.
(https://i.ibb.co/wQTcGf1/IMG-7391.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wQTcGf1)

(https://i.ibb.co/9cc8tfF/IMG-7396.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9cc8tfF)

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: Wayne Orwig on July 13, 2019, 06:00:20 PM

Sure looks like a spacer is missing between the nut and the clamp.

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: amamet on July 13, 2019, 06:19:23 PM

all parts taken off were put back on...and looking at a schematic everything is correct

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: 1down5up on July 13, 2019, 07:01:08 PM

It looks like you might be missing the washer between the dust cap and nut - but that's not going to take up that much slack...

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: amamet on July 13, 2019, 07:07:39 PM

Nope, it’s there. The washer is on top of the nut. Dust cap, nut, washer, upper triple and lastly the steering head nut

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: acogoff on July 13, 2019, 08:47:09 PM

     Did you by any chance put in new bearings and races? A race not driven fully home would cause such.

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: amamet on July 13, 2019, 09:05:04 PM

Nope again, just reinstalled as it was removed. All parts the same

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: amamet on July 14, 2019, 07:42:09 AM

the second photo shows, from the bottom up, the dust cap, steering head nut, washer then the lower part of the body of the top steering head nut.  I can't figure out how the upper triple doesn't "float" along the body of the top nut.  I've included the schematic from stein dinse

(https://i.ibb.co/2vyRftZ/Screen-Shot-2019-07-14-at-8-40-13-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/2vyRftZ)

Title: Re: geez, I don't remember the steering head nut this proud when disassembled?
Post by: Dimples on July 14, 2019, 11:35:16 AM

If everything is accounted for on top, maybe something is missing from the lower triple tree assembly.