Author Topic: Every time I work on this bike.....something HAS to go wrong (Read 5172 times)

PitterB4 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 11, 2007, 07:44:47 PM »

Quote from: "Red01"

IIRC, the GS500 puts the single disc on the other side from the B4.

You are correct. How do you remember this shit!?!?!? LOL!

I know that not all B4 wheels are tapped on both sides. I remember that Thief400 had to tap the other side of his B4 wheel when he did his Kat f/e swap.

GooseMan · « **Reply #16 on:** July 12, 2007, 12:33:31 PM »

Yeah...stupid me for not covering up the bolt holes when sandblasting

I taped up the bearings nice and good, but not the holes!

Meehacker...the wheels at the mechanics right now...hopefully they can fix it all up nice...but if not, I'll be sending you a PM!

My wheel is not tapped on both sides, but I can see underneath the hub of the wheel there are little "lugs" where tapped holes would be (if you look underneath the machined surface of the hub of the wheel, there are molded in lugs for holes), so it looks like for a dual brake setup, you can drill and tap holes on the opposite side, as there is enough material for tapping.

Good to know ;)

Red01 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 12, 2007, 02:37:31 PM »

Quote from: "PitterB4"

Quote from: "Red01"
IIRC, the GS500 puts the single disc on the other side from the B4.

You are correct. How do you remember this shit!?!?!? LOL!

This is easy stuff... nothing compared to all the carpola I have to remember for work!

GooseMan · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2007, 12:31:29 PM »

Well, the dealer just called. They said they got it all figured out....but its gonna cost me. :(

Drilled out the bolts, re-tapped 4 of the holes, had to use a Heli-Coil for one hole (how much do those cost?

) and its like $7 each bolt for new bolts....plus labour.....ouch!

Well, you live, you learn.

pmackie · « **Reply #19 on:** July 13, 2007, 03:31:15 PM »

Heli-coil itself is pretty cheap ($5?), but labour to install will add up. Since their cleaning up the other holes, shouldn't be more than an hour of labour or so.

GooseMan · « **Reply #20 on:** July 13, 2007, 05:26:51 PM »

Well, just got back....cost me $120 with taxes (14%)....so it was an hour of labour plus $35 worth of bolts and $5 helicoil....woohoo!

I was expecting worse...

PitterB4 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 13, 2007, 05:46:06 PM »

That's not bad! When I stripped out my cam cap, it cost me at least that much just for the helicoil and machine work. Of course, it was like 2 days before i was leaving for the '05 Bandit Rally and he had to have the helicoil and the tool overnighted from California (stupid, rare 7mmx1 thread!).