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Bike Talk / Re: Thread sert

« on: January 03, 2018, 06:39:20 am »

Hey Moto is the burr, a burr grinder like a Dremmel, may be the rattle gun idea, melt the bugger out weld up the hole and start again. cheers

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Bike Talk / Re: Thread sert

« on: January 02, 2018, 08:32:32 am »

Mick25 is that the link on the shock mount to swingarm, mine appears to have been welded up, I purchased a spare frame and some bits and pieces in good nick off gumtree. Dont the thread sert is countersunk , tried to center punch around it to squeeze it up, no joy. A mate suggested putting a rattle gun on it and spin it till it bites or melts out cheers

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Bike Talk / Re: Thread sert

« on: January 01, 2018, 05:00:54 pm »

Tried to pull the nut head 10mm with vice grips, didn't work, manages to brake the brake lever, I did see youtube make your own crimp using a bolt washer and nut to squash the insert, but I cant get the bolt out. Like your idea, may be pinches and give it a good squeeze cheers

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Bike Talk / Re: Thread sert

« on: January 01, 2018, 03:02:54 pm »

Steel insert in alloy swingarm this is the upper chain guide mount on KTM 504, was rather hoping for some sort of magic fix

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Introductions / Re: USD forks and rear disc brake

« on: January 01, 2018, 12:34:11 pm »

Do these items give you an unfair advantage or is it just looks, I was going to put a alloy swingarm  on the TT500 is that forbidden as well, first thing I noticed riding a Suzuki 500 2 stroke was a terrible lack of engine braking, very scary on the first corner cheers

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Bike Talk / Thread sert

« on: January 01, 2018, 12:23:54 pm »

Maybe thread set, nut set,  thread inserts like a pop rivet with a thread in it, anyway I've got one in a swingarm with a bolt in it and the lot of it turns in the mount, any  body got any good ideas on how to either remove it or get it to fix in place so the bolt can be removed. I have tried loctite superglue and loctite stud loc, neither method worked, help

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Introductions / USD forks and rear disc brake

« on: December 27, 2017, 04:35:41 pm »

Hi all, just new here, but, how come usd forks and rear disc brake are a problem, I have a 83/84 KTM 504 and as far as I can see every production run from KTM brought a slightly different variant, I have seen another 504 with the same wp usd forks although the rear disc brake is of a ktm 500 84mod, anyway just wondering cheers michael

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Introductions / Re: New member michael

« on: December 27, 2017, 12:44:38 pm »

Thanks mick, nice to know I'm in good company. I've also got an xl250 mk2 motosport and a 230cc pit bike my son rode once, in hindsight may have been a bit big for his first bike oops

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Introductions / New member michael

« on: December 27, 2017, 11:14:06 am »

Hi all I live in the blue mountains, was a member of Blacktown mc, short cct,on a tt500, family is grown up, so back to dangerous hobby. Doing up a ktm 504, my dream bike and a tt500, Going to look at some more VMX events Dargle sound good and not to far away and Collondale, spellings a bit iffy. very happy to join cheers michael