lowy
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Gday. Has anyone know an easy way to get those f#%^en centre stand springs on a Jota ???
Centre stand
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chrisk
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Bend the fucken springs, fill up the fucken springs gaps with 10c pieces, turn the fucken spring around, bend it the other way and fill the fucken spring gaps with more 10c pieces.
Fit into place, remove coins and stop Fucken swearing.
Fit into place, remove coins and stop Fucken swearing.
Basketcase
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What if you live outside Australia and cannot get said 10c pieces?
lowy
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- sunshine coast qld aus
I own a fucken Laverda. I haven’t got that much money
CLEMTOG
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fit the stand to the springs and frame first, no bolts, then with a small ratchet cargo strap, arrange the strap so that you can wrap it around the rear wheel with the hooks of the strap attached to the left and right spars pf the stand (so that the hooks cannot slide inward) and then use the strap to pull the stand away and tension the springs enough to get the bolts, the sleeves and nuts/washers in place.
not easy on the floor but we all have bike lifts don't we? easier if you have a folded piece of thin ally so that the strap can slide around the tyre rather than bog in, put the bike in gear or lock the brake. Or any similar variation on the above.
CLEM
not easy on the floor but we all have bike lifts don't we? easier if you have a folded piece of thin ally so that the strap can slide around the tyre rather than bog in, put the bike in gear or lock the brake. Or any similar variation on the above.
CLEM
hooksey
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piranha-bro2
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Use $100 notes ... slide in easier. But they're thin, so you'll need 1000 of them.
Dellortoman
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Blimey, I've only ever done it by brute force using my hands and a pair of pliers. Was never clever enough to come up with any fancy way to do it.
I'm not very bright but I can lift heavy things.
I'm not very bright but I can lift heavy things.
mauricejota7604
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- Victoria Australia
Hey Lowey so as Clem says hang the stand from the springs without putting the bolts in, then move the stand into the bracket, (takes a little force but not that much for a strong Queenslander) then push the bolts through dont forget the bushes and nyloc nuts or loctite.
Easy peasy.
Easy peasy.
Shajota
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Agree with Maurice.
Best leverage you will get is using the actual stand, just a bit of a bastard when a bush falls out just as you're getting close!
(of course a bit of grease helps....)
Best leverage you will get is using the actual stand, just a bit of a bastard when a bush falls out just as you're getting close!
(of course a bit of grease helps....)
motoddrob
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That's too sensible!!
piranha-bro2
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Cause you won't end up with skinned knuckles, and that is part of the 'experience'
Not much space to use the spring puller, unless you hang the bike from the shed roof girders.
Hooking up the spring to frame and stand has proved to be easy, if a little akward and complicated looking at first. Slip the bolts in first, the bushes can be slid in afterwards by wiggling the stand around. Once it has been manhandled into and taken up its basic position it's easy peasy.
Bolts need to be done up tight! I find so many stands with loose bolts... "It won't retract otherwise" is often the answer. It won't retract when tightened 'cos it's fucking bent!! Loose bolts will slowly but surely knacker their holes in the frame, making it impossible to get the stand working properly without major surgery. With the bolts loose, the stand is subjected to various bending forces every time it is deployed.
piet
Hooking up the spring to frame and stand has proved to be easy, if a little akward and complicated looking at first. Slip the bolts in first, the bushes can be slid in afterwards by wiggling the stand around. Once it has been manhandled into and taken up its basic position it's easy peasy.
Bolts need to be done up tight! I find so many stands with loose bolts... "It won't retract otherwise" is often the answer. It won't retract when tightened 'cos it's fucking bent!! Loose bolts will slowly but surely knacker their holes in the frame, making it impossible to get the stand working properly without major surgery. With the bolts loose, the stand is subjected to various bending forces every time it is deployed.
piet
Laverda SF
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Just don't use the F&$kn side stand it you can help it ;o)
By the way the spring you are looking for is the same spring used on early SF and SFC BREV drummers also used for the rear Brake light switch and side stand.
Early Breganzies only used ONE Spring for all purposes - Correct me if I'm wrong ;o)
By the way the spring you are looking for is the same spring used on early SF and SFC BREV drummers also used for the rear Brake light switch and side stand.
Early Breganzies only used ONE Spring for all purposes - Correct me if I'm wrong ;o)
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The Sock
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Tie strap advice for this guy
, please, Clem?
, please, Clem?
sideshow
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Thought you were gunna say you don’t swear if you live outside Australia!