Montreal Manchild with an '81 Honda CB750K

I put these Chinese shocks on my KZ550, look cool just had to order the bottom fitting, not looking to build a super bike, just a cruise around town bike that looks good to me. I think it was around a hundred bucks.
 

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I used 2 stainless bolts that I jammed/screwed into the bearing, then punched it out from the other side, worked good, saw that somewhere on the net, tried the expanding bolt and it just broke apart.
 

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That was, in no uncertain terms, a massive pain in the arse.

But...



...got the little bastards.

2 fruitless trips to Canadian Tire to buy bolts that didn't work, finally found one today ½" wide which did, but only after 2hrs of MacGuyvering. Man, when that thing came out so did the beers.

The bearing in the sprocket was another mission - the bearing retainer was totally hammered and so I had to dremel the entire edge down until I could see the outer edge. Made a little tool to fit into the little holes and got that sucker out -



- cue more celebratory beer.

Gave the drum and sprocket assembly a good clean and now chilling with an excellent single malt.

Onwards and upwards =)
 
Maritime said:
Nice, that's pretty much how those things go, putting it all back is much easier on you.
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Thank Christ for that =)

Got the new bearings today from All Balls. Looking at them, they're repackaged KML bearings which, google tells me, are from China. Can't find much info on them other than that. Considering what a ball ache it was to get these bearings out I don't want to install junk and then have to replace them anytime soon.

What's the word on KML, and is there a better brand I should be getting instead?
 
Just pick one of the seals out and look at the grease. if it is nice and clean and lots of it, you'll be fine, a lot of folks run the All Balls, I have at least one set in one of my bikes, can't remember which, and I have used their tapered stem bearing kits. I usually go to the bearing shop and just ask for the sizes I need but sometimes the kit is more convenient.
 
That's encouraging, good to hear. My local shop kinda did the old sucking-air-in-through-gritted-teeth routine when I told them I'd ordered All Balls, so I wasn't sure if I'd done the right thing.

There's a load of grease inside the axis of the rear wheel - is it a good idea to clean that up and put new grease in there? I have some red wheel bearing and chassis grease, would that work? Or is there a special grease that I should use?
 
I'll let Nick or Irk answer that one as I haven't done spoke wheel, All I have ever done are comstars and they don't use the grease.
 
No need to add grease on a sealed bearing. All Balls are just repackaged kits. They buy sizes and combine to put together swaps. When I buy bearings, I go to my local Motion Industries.
 
irk miller said:
No need to add grease on a sealed bearing. All Balls are just repackaged kits. They buy sizes and combine to put together swaps. When I buy bearings, I go to my local Motion Industries.
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Me too, but I have bought a couple of the all balls kits. Motion will get you NSK,FAG, etc at a discount as long as you know the sizes you need.
 
irk miller said:
No need to add grease on a sealed bearing. All Balls are just repackaged kits. They buy sizes and combine to put together swaps. When I buy bearings, I go to my local Motion Industries.
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When I finally got the wheel bearings out (and the spacer between them) I saw a lot of grease inside the actual wheel hub. The new bearings I'm installing are sealed - does that mean there does not need to be any grease inside the wheel hub at all? How about around the spacer? Of should I just clean it all up, put the new bearings in and I'm good to go?
 
As per the manual you are supposed to apply grease inside the hub (but outside of the spacer). I usually brush a few globs in the inside of the hub and then coat the outside of the spacer with bearing grease and slap them back together. I'm really not sure the purpose of it but I do it anyways.


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I've got some red bearing and chassis grease, will that do it? Or is there a special kind of grease for this? The grease that's in the hub now is black as a stack of black cats in a coalmine
 
Hey Nick Ol' Eye, just checked out your Luna build thread, man that's a sweet looking ride, kudos on a great job mate. Love the frame colour - I've been going backwards and forwards with a coloured frame (instead of black) on mine but just can't decide. I love this colour from House of Kolor -

http://www.houseofkolor.com/kolors/detail/index.html?id=HOK0923-00&ref=kolors

and it's available in a rattle can too so I might have a crack at painting it myself. Your bike has just put another tick in the Colour Frame box =)
 
advCo said:
As per the manual you are supposed to apply grease inside the hub (but outside of the spacer). I usually brush a few globs in the inside of the hub and then coat the outside of the spacer with bearing grease and slap them back together. I'm really not sure the purpose of it but I do it anyways.


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Those aren't sealed bearings.
 
Maritime said:
Irk, he has all balls kit to replace the ones in pic, all balls are sealed.
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I was quoting Nick's comment, which he refers to the manual. The manual is covering stock bearings, which are not sealed bearings.
 
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