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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: LaGrasta on June 28, 2016, 02:42:27 PM
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Sat down next to my V7 to have lunch today. While I'm chomping away I notice a hole where there is supposed to be a bolt. :shocked:
Right below the right side cover the swing arm bolt is completely gone and the other side is finger-tight. I always hear of needing to retighten the MG bike bolts, should have known better. So scary…
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Is the pivot pin itself gone, or just the larger securing screw that covers it?
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Is the pivot pin itself gone, or just the larger securing screw that covers it?
Either way, it's nice to notice and fix it before the swing arm lets loose.
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Right below the right side cover the swing arm bolt is completely gone
What in the Hell is a "swing arm bolt" ?
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My motorcycle mentor encouraged sitting down next to your bike with a beer in hand and staring at it periodically.
The bike, not the beer.
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One day while sat staring at my V7 with tea in hand wife says what you doing, I say looking at my bike, she says you've had it long enough to know what it looks like, I say yes will you turn it round so I can see it from the other side. She shakes her head and walks off. Steve.
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My motorcycle mentor encouraged sitting down next to your bike with a beer in hand and staring at it periodically.
The bike, not the beer.
THAT is funny!!! :boozing:
Are ya sure? :grin:
John Henry
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(http://thumb.ibb.co/kMjGWF/V7frame_II.png) (http://ibb.co/kMjGWF)
It's #15
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Nothing to do with the swingarm there? What part are you talking about?
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Looks like he's talking about the frame cross member.
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Bad reply, not the part at all.
Here it is...
(http://thumb.ibb.co/bsNQQa/image.jpg) (http://ibb.co/bsNQQa)
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Righto. That's a security cap. It's massive and it's there to keep the actual swingarm pivot screw from backing out, and also protect the screw from weather/filth/corrosion. If the swingarm pivot comes loose, you're screwed. In the drawing here, the pivot screw is B, the cap nut is A. It's the pivot screw that actually engages a hole in the frame, or maybe the engine/transmission case.
(http://thumb.ibb.co/gsq1yv/Diag_Swing_Arm_zpsf18d6cb3.jpg) (http://ibb.co/gsq1yv)
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Not that, the hole above that. It's a bolt that holds the rear of the trans in place.
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Bad reply, not the part at all.
Here it is...
(http://thumb.ibb.co/bsNQQa/image.jpg) (http://ibb.co/bsNQQa)
You referring to the hole above the chrome nut?
<edit> Too slow on the keyboard. :grin:
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Looks like that goes into the top of the transmission case. Is there a similar hole on the other side? Is it empty too? If not, it's not a through-pin.
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In the first post he said the one on the other side was finger tight.
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One day while sat staring at my V7 with tea in hand wife says what you doing, I say looking at my bike, she says you've had it long enough to know what it looks like, I say yes will you turn it round so I can see it from the other side. She shakes her head and walks off. Steve.
Don't care who you are, that is funny. :grin:
Reminds me of something my brother might say to his wife.
Has to be a special kind of woman to stay.
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there is supposed to be a bolt there, but all it does is hold the top half of the bike to the bottom half. Id be looking for a replacement before bad things happen.