I eventually received my tool bought on eBay. I tightened everything to the specified torque and loosened by a quarter of a turn but it was still making noise. I repeated the operation but loosened by 1/8th of a turn this time. I tested today and everything seems fine.
Thanks for the video. I might have this issue on my 2006 SV650S so I will check if that is the case by checking the torque of everything. I have ordered a specific socket on eBay.
Grateful to you for these awesome videos. If I were to have gotten that far into removing the TT assembly, I would’ve greased the bearings as to avoid replacing them sooner than later.
yes, BUT i didnt want to drop/reset forks etc. i wanted to fix the obvious issue and move on. the bikes come half apart every winter anyway and will maybe see like 3-4 race weekends
Gen 3 owners note that the torque spec for the locking (lower) nut is only 20Nm on this model bike. Then back off 1/4 turn. The torque for the top nut is the same as Gen 2 at 90Nm.
Clicked 'like' cos watching and learning from you was v useful - thanku! One small piece of feedback re filming: wish u'd been a lot closer up with the camera to the action. (Over 3/4 of my screen wasted, showing your workshop!)
Gsxr fairing stay and some diy brackets. Im sure you could do it for a street bike and do lights but... why lol just buy a gix if you want it to look that way
hi here's a thing can i use a front paddock stand to check or adjust my steering head bearings ? as ive no way of anchoring the rear down so as i can jack the bike up i have access to axle stands n trolley jacks and a rear paddock stand but really how do i get the front in the air if i cant use the front stand ?? Cheers dave in the uk
A frame ladder and ratchet strap? rear stand and a jack under the motor? jackstands under the frame sliders? definitely cant use the front stand since the steering needs to be able to move
Loving all these knowledge packed videos! Tweaked is different to bent right? Still a bit hazy on the terminology here, it doesn't mean a component has been deformed from an impact, but has been unseated or misaligned somehow? And second thing about air in the brake system, is that because the reservoir was at an angle, exposing the brake fluid tunnel/hole?
tweaked is "slightly bent" at least that's the way I use it. mostly like misaligned not hammered into the ground. I'm fine with a little bit of misalignment etc but the smoother things go together the closer to perfectly straight everything is. the fluid level in the reservoir shouldnt be below the hole to the hose. since the res flipped over there is a good chance i got air into the hose which will then get sent down into the lines. I'm bleeding the brakes on it this week anyway so i dont care, but in general you want to make sure you keep the reservoir upright
@@Mad8vCycles Cool thanks, will you be doing a vid on the brake bleeding? I would be interested to see your approach on that job, since techniques seem to vary quite a bit.
@@0x7FFFFFFFFFFF i was planning to yes. most techniques work. sometimes on some systems some method works better than others. if im filling a system from dry, i like to push fluid up with a syringe. if i want to replace all the fluid, i like the vacuum bleeder if i want a super solid lever feel after bleeding, I do the pump -> hold -> open -> close -> release ->pump method speedbleeders... annoy the hell out of me since i can't push fluid up them and they suck to fill from dry since air isn't enough to open them
Imperial units and the current metric system metric simply meaning measuring the base 10 system works great you'll get no argument there but the fact is that the mile is the closest thing to a scientific constant that we have which is why I need to write my paper because inches and feet aren't science and that's why we crash it into Mars
@@danisyx5804 how many pounds do 3.5 gallons of water weigh and what are the dimensions of a box to fit that? OH WAIT THAT'S A BITCH OF A CONVERSION.... however cc/g/ml/cm is easy...
add temperature and you get even more stupid... how many calories do i need to raise the temp of a gallon of water 1 degree F? uhhh but in metric/celsius it's easy
@@Mad8vCycles it's actually pretty simple too once you realize a pint is a pound of water. So you're 8 lb per gallon.... like I said the base 10 system works great you can just divide everything by moving the decimal point it's easy and I'm all for a base 10 system kilometers kilograms miles inches it's all made up there's no science behind it
Loving these vids man.... you helped me a lot in the forums when I changed my suspension last year!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙏
I eventually received my tool bought on eBay. I tightened everything to the specified torque and loosened by a quarter of a turn but it was still making noise. I repeated the operation but loosened by 1/8th of a turn this time. I tested today and everything seems fine.
Thanks for the video. I might have this issue on my 2006 SV650S so I will check if that is the case by checking the torque of everything. I have ordered a specific socket on eBay.
Grateful to you for these awesome videos. If I were to have gotten that far into removing the TT assembly, I would’ve greased the bearings as to avoid replacing them sooner than later.
yes, BUT i didnt want to drop/reset forks etc. i wanted to fix the obvious issue and move on. the bikes come half apart every winter anyway and will maybe see like 3-4 race weekends
"while i'm here let me..." is the killer of getting things finished
Gen 3 owners note that the torque spec for the locking (lower) nut is only 20Nm on this model bike. Then back off 1/4 turn. The torque for the top nut is the same as Gen 2 at 90Nm.
In my Haynes manual they say 45 Nm for the bottom one, 80 for the locking one above and 90 for the top stem one.
Yours is a Gen 2 model. My comment was regarding the Gen 3 , 2017 onwards.
@@Al-df7np Apologies, I've just realised.
Absolutely wonderful. I’ll be checking out the site. May be looking to do an N to S conversion on my 08
Thanks very helpful
Clicked 'like' cos watching and learning from you was v useful - thanku!
One small piece of feedback re filming: wish u'd been a lot closer up with the camera to the action. (Over 3/4 of my screen wasted, showing your workshop!)
Absolutely! And when i have helpers around i do try to do that. But tripod is all i get to work with a lot of the time
Thank you 👍🏼
What center stand do you use to raise the bike?
No center stands. I either use pitbull paddock stands or tie one end down and use a jack under the belly
great video what front fairing is that?
it's a gsxr (06?) fiberglass track fairing. i think sharkskinz
how do u fit gixxer fairings on there? think you could run a gixxer headlight if you wanted?
Gsxr fairing stay and some diy brackets.
Im sure you could do it for a street bike and do lights but... why lol just buy a gix if you want it to look that way
hi here's a thing can i use a front paddock stand to check or adjust my steering head bearings ? as ive no way of anchoring the rear down so as i can jack the bike up i have access to axle stands n trolley jacks and a rear paddock stand but really how do i get the front in the air if i cant use the front stand ?? Cheers dave in the uk
A frame ladder and ratchet strap?
rear stand and a jack under the motor?
jackstands under the frame sliders?
definitely cant use the front stand since the steering needs to be able to move
Loving all these knowledge packed videos!
Tweaked is different to bent right? Still a bit hazy on the terminology here, it doesn't mean a component has been deformed from an impact, but has been unseated or misaligned somehow?
And second thing about air in the brake system, is that because the reservoir was at an angle, exposing the brake fluid tunnel/hole?
tweaked is "slightly bent" at least that's the way I use it. mostly like misaligned not hammered into the ground. I'm fine with a little bit of misalignment etc but the smoother things go together the closer to perfectly straight everything is.
the fluid level in the reservoir shouldnt be below the hole to the hose. since the res flipped over there is a good chance i got air into the hose which will then get sent down into the lines. I'm bleeding the brakes on it this week anyway so i dont care, but in general you want to make sure you keep the reservoir upright
usually when i say tweaked, i mean "slightly bent but still useable" when i say bent that means "fucked and needs to be replaced"
@@Mad8vCycles Cool thanks, will you be doing a vid on the brake bleeding? I would be interested to see your approach on that job, since techniques seem to vary quite a bit.
@@0x7FFFFFFFFFFF i was planning to yes.
most techniques work. sometimes on some systems some method works better than others.
if im filling a system from dry, i like to push fluid up with a syringe.
if i want to replace all the fluid, i like the vacuum bleeder
if i want a super solid lever feel after bleeding, I do the pump -> hold -> open -> close -> release ->pump method
speedbleeders... annoy the hell out of me since i can't push fluid up them and they suck to fill from dry since air isn't enough to
open them
@@0x7FFFFFFFFFFF ruclips.net/video/A6SFgklAgIQ/видео.html
Hella tight 🤣 you totally just dated yourself dude lol. People our age still say that s***
Imperial units and the current metric system metric simply meaning measuring the base 10 system works great you'll get no argument there but the fact is that the mile is the closest thing to a scientific constant that we have which is why I need to write my paper because inches and feet aren't science and that's why we crash it into Mars
@@danisyx5804 how many pounds do 3.5 gallons of water weigh and what are the dimensions of a box to fit that? OH WAIT THAT'S A BITCH OF A CONVERSION.... however cc/g/ml/cm is easy...
add temperature and you get even more stupid... how many calories do i need to raise the temp of a gallon of water 1 degree F? uhhh
but in metric/celsius it's easy
@@Mad8vCycles it's actually pretty simple too once you realize a pint is a pound of water. So you're 8 lb per gallon.... like I said the base 10 system works great you can just divide everything by moving the decimal point it's easy and I'm all for a base 10 system kilometers kilograms miles inches it's all made up there's no science behind it
@@Mad8vCycles 1 BTU per pound or pint per degree. But to understand calories you have to know what caloric was. I loved my thermodynamics course 😁
Metric man! The only thing that makes any sense.