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Rebuilding xs650 couple questions please tell!
- Thread starter Motochick
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I wouldn't worry about a used bolt except an original with that tapered down end.
PS way to go littlebill31!
PPS have you ventured into swing arm bushing land yet?
Hi Motochick,
FWIW, the used Suzi swingarm bolt I put in my XS650 after the stock bolt's M14-threaded end fell off in the street at 60mph to let the rear wheel lock up solid
has lasted for perhaps 20 years.
About the assembled bike photo, put the fenders back on. That or move to someplace where it never rains.
And besides the rear fender stopping the ridge of mud forming on the back of your jacket the front fender is also a fork brace.
And yes, you can buy a TKAT fork brace but that won't stop the rainwater flying off your front tire.
If you can live with the look of the exhaust system shown on the bike but it's too quiet, give it's mufflers the pointy bar treatment.
Grind a pyramidical point on the end of an ~18" length of 5/8" diameter steel bar and drive it into the end of each muffler with a BFH
to knock the internal baffle's end open. Just on the safe side of illegally loud.
And before you powdercoat the frame, do the tapered roller headrace and the swingarm bronze bushing swaps.
If your powdercoat guy don't know to mask them, use one that does.
member3480
RICH
You are right down the street from my powder coater HAHA and there is a good painter in his compound too. Need anything I am right down in Toms River and have parts. PLUS!!!! I run OPEN PIPES on all my bikes because New Jersey Drivers don't look at bikes LOL I will PM you the power coater and go see Chris hes a good guy and can do crazy stuff.
While I have heard of the pivot bolt breaking at the threads a few times on here. I have had well over 40 XS650s through my shop, removed the swing arm pivot from many of them, and put new swing arm bushings in probably 10 or so I have yet to see a single broken bolt. I have seen and (ahem) created a mashed thread or 2 getting some very stuck bolts out. I think there was only one I had to cut out.
^If it had been broken it might have been junked already. I think it usually shows up as a crack, and if you inspect it and don't find a crack, maybe you crack it when you subsequently reuse it and tighten it up. That's how it was explained to me anyway. Just after I got my XS I was telling a mechanic about it and he told me to test for movement in the swing arm. I told him I'd upgraded the bushings and the bolt, and that's when he said every XS650 he'd ever seen had the original bolt cracked. So go figure...
Motochick
XS650 Member
Lol mine are fine! I ventured!
Motochick
XS650 Member
That's what I have. A mashed thread.
Hi Motochick,
and that's a good thing, so long as it's mashed enough it can't be fixed with a thread file and you have to replace it.
Here's what happens:-
If the stock M14-ended swingarm throughbolt is torqued tight enough to clamp the swingarm bearing sleeve into the frame the
throughbolt's transition neck between the 16mm bolt body and the M14 threaded end will either yield to let the bearing sleeve
turn with the swingarm or it will snap off like a carrot which gives the throughbolt the option of falling out on the street.
And the reason that Gary hasn't seen a busted throughbolt in the ~40 bikes that have been through his shop is because
either they've yielded instead of broken or they've already been replaced.
So go get a full M16-ended throughbolt to keep your swingarm tight and your backside off the blacktop.
Motochick
XS650 Member
Ok cool thank you so much. I'll look that bolt up.
