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Yesterday was a bit better than Monday's visit by Wilma to my neighborhood but not without a new casualty. I put my bike at a friends home who has a garage for the hurricane's visit. Went to retrieve her last nite. Now, if you even think your electric/hydraulic stand is making a slightly different sound...
1. Get on the ground and check the larger hexhead cap nuts that go thru the bottom of the stand upwards and put an allen wrench to them and see if they are loose. Mine had been making a slightly different sound and I didn't heed it.
I did look around once but didn't see anything that looked amiss.
2. That hydraulic stand is capable of shearing the bolt quite easily. I haven't tackled the withdrawl of the small (hopefully) piece that remains but soon will. I'm hoping to try super gluing the remaining bolt to the piece that remains and see if it won't just unscrew. The other bolt will have to come off first for the centerstand to drop off and maybe a spring if it has one. I'll let you know and photograph the results for a tech site article.
This bike has 41000+ miles on it and this was probably never checked as it's in a difficult area to do much. More to come.
1. Get on the ground and check the larger hexhead cap nuts that go thru the bottom of the stand upwards and put an allen wrench to them and see if they are loose. Mine had been making a slightly different sound and I didn't heed it.
I did look around once but didn't see anything that looked amiss.
2. That hydraulic stand is capable of shearing the bolt quite easily. I haven't tackled the withdrawl of the small (hopefully) piece that remains but soon will. I'm hoping to try super gluing the remaining bolt to the piece that remains and see if it won't just unscrew. The other bolt will have to come off first for the centerstand to drop off and maybe a spring if it has one. I'll let you know and photograph the results for a tech site article.
This bike has 41000+ miles on it and this was probably never checked as it's in a difficult area to do much. More to come.