| Author | Message | ||
     Psycrow |
Ok this my be a dumb question but the closest Harley Dealer is 2 1/2 hours away and there is local shop that all the Harley guys use. I went to him to get a new rear tire mounted and the brake now feels mushy. I applied the brake and rolled the bike froward and back and the caliper support bracket is rotating with the disk (as far as the fluid line will allow) there seems to be a Allen head bolt with no function that catches on the top of the swing arm when the caliper is rolled froward and there is s grove machined out in the inside of the swing arm that would seem to fit that bolt head. Am I correct to assume that the bolt is designed to fit in that grove to keep it from rotating? | ||
| Buell_bert |
Hey Psycrow you got it. The bolt is indeed supposed to fit in the slot. The shop kind of missed on your tire mount job. | ||
| F_skinner |
Plus 1 on what Buell bert said. I have seen this many times. Best thing is to not ride it until you fix it. Take the rear wheel off and set the brake correctly in the slot, the allen bolt will hold it in there. I cannot stress this enough, do not ride it until you fix it. I wonder if they took it out for a test ride after they worked on it. I saw a S3 being rolled out of a local shop waiting for its rider. The same thing! I pointed it out to the service department but they where sure they did it correctly and they pointed out that it was not my bike! I waited for the owner and we did it CORRECTLY in the parking lot of the same HD/Buell dealership. | ||
| Psycrow |
Ouch.. Yea that wasn't the only thing the local shop missed. I understand he didn't have a shop manual but at least you could put it back the way you found it. I need to ditch this pre 99 manual and get an 02...... ps. right below the slot is a round hole machined into the swing arm with a plastic plug in it... whats that? | ||
| Jramsey |
That plugged hole and the one just like it on the other side are used to drain the sand after casting the swingarm, and possibly first op in jigging it for final machining. Same purpose as "freeze plug" holes in an automotive engine block. (Message edited by jramsey on May 12, 2009) |
