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Steering Bearing and Head Shake
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<blockquote data-quote="ScooterZ" data-source="post: 1191264" data-attributes="member: 86661"><p>Mike Nixon is a Master Mechanic and really knows his stuff. His website is chock full of great information. Though he specializes in Hondas much of his information is universal.</p><p></p><p>I replaced my steering head bearings with tapered roller bearings when I was in the middle of a 24K complete service.(The bike was new to me so I checked everything from front to back). I followed Mike Nixons "Shucking the Shakes" procedure. I have used the same technique for several of my bikes and it WORKS! None of the bikes I have used the procedure on have any front end wobble problems...Period. They all ride straight and true.</p><p></p><p>By the way for any of you interested in knowing with my tapered rollers were torqued to 22Ft/Lbs and the pull reading was about 6 lbs which is about the pull required on these bikes due to their weight.</p><p></p><p>His website is:</p><p></p><p>www.motorcycleproject.com</p><p></p><p>Z</p><p></p><p>PS. As a side note I only replaced the steering head bearings because the original ball bearings had indentations in the races. The original ball bearing setup works fine and I subscribe to the addage... if it aint broke don't fix it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScooterZ, post: 1191264, member: 86661"] Mike Nixon is a Master Mechanic and really knows his stuff. His website is chock full of great information. Though he specializes in Hondas much of his information is universal. I replaced my steering head bearings with tapered roller bearings when I was in the middle of a 24K complete service.(The bike was new to me so I checked everything from front to back). I followed Mike Nixons "Shucking the Shakes" procedure. I have used the same technique for several of my bikes and it WORKS! None of the bikes I have used the procedure on have any front end wobble problems...Period. They all ride straight and true. By the way for any of you interested in knowing with my tapered rollers were torqued to 22Ft/Lbs and the pull reading was about 6 lbs which is about the pull required on these bikes due to their weight. His website is: www.motorcycleproject.com Z PS. As a side note I only replaced the steering head bearings because the original ball bearings had indentations in the races. The original ball bearing setup works fine and I subscribe to the addage... if it aint broke don't fix it! [/QUOTE]
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