Posted by thehoghunter on July 17, 2003 at 22:04:43:
In Reply to: Re: Chopper posted by fouine on July 17, 2003 at 20:34:07:
The kit comes with top & bottom triple tree, bottom adapter (to space out bottom tree), longer fork tubes, extended brake line, adapters for headlight, longer axle and spacers for wheel, fender and brake caliper are included. Parts that will be reused are front wheel and brake, lower legs, headlight, risers and bars.
I replaced my risers because the bolt was rusted into it and would NOT come out (even with 5-6 treatments with different lubericants and heating it up and hitting it with a hammer {last resort!}).
The problem with the kit was the axle. If you look at other bikes at all, you will see that the axle goes through both forks - on one side it would be tightened down with a allen screw that tightens the fork around the axle (just like on the Savage). The other end is held on with a nut. The Savage doesn't have this feature. The axle screws into the left fork. Which is why there is a head bolt on the end of a Savage axle. The one SeegerCycle sent has a hole drilled through it - no bolt head on the end
- no way to torque it either unless you get something that can go through the hole and then be held somehow by a socket (I thought about taking apart a universal joint adapter - the kind that allow you to go around things with your rachet - they are put together with a pin that probably could have been taken out, remove the top piece, put the pin through the hole in the axle and back into the lower portion of the adapter - then you could attach a torque wrench.
I ended up finding a stud extractor at Sears - it's made to remove studs from things - it is round with a hole in the middle. Between the hole is a wheel which grabs the stud and pushes against it closing off the hole in the stud extractor. It has a female portion of a 3/8 drive to allow a ratchet (or torque wrench) to be used. I had to file out the opening to make it big enough to fit the axle (I probably should have looked for one that was a bit bigger so I didn't have to do all that filing).
If you still don't understand the solution, check out this web page (hopefully it will work)
http://www.sears.com/sr/product/summary/productsummary.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1112062746.1058472125@@@@&BV_EngineID=cciladcilgfkgefcehgcemgdffmdflk.0&vertical=TOOL&bidsite=&pid=00904458000
And it's a stud remover, not a stud extractor. Oh well.