Pappy
06-15-2006, 07:45 PM
Ok detectives.....
Cody has been having trouble throwing chains. We had narrowed it down to either a faulty carrier or swing arm, as the pinch bolts would squeeze flush and after 25 or 30 laps the chain would loosen. the chain actually only came off twice in almost 80 hours of riding.
Anyway, I started buttoning up the quad tonight when I noticed something wasnt right. I was actually taking the swing arm off to fix whatever i could find when i ran into this(see pic)
He has never run this in the rocks, and the sprocket is straight although it did wear funny which I am assuming was caused by the slightly tweaked:eek2: sprocket hub.
My first thought was it was damaged when the hub was pressed on the axle, I know I tried installing it with out a press but only used a rubber mallet. if i can bend it with a rubber mallet then wtf:p
Im still trying to figure out just how this occured, and maybe someone out there has seen this type of thing before. I have seen them break into pieces, but never bend.
Cody has been having trouble throwing chains. We had narrowed it down to either a faulty carrier or swing arm, as the pinch bolts would squeeze flush and after 25 or 30 laps the chain would loosen. the chain actually only came off twice in almost 80 hours of riding.
Anyway, I started buttoning up the quad tonight when I noticed something wasnt right. I was actually taking the swing arm off to fix whatever i could find when i ran into this(see pic)
He has never run this in the rocks, and the sprocket is straight although it did wear funny which I am assuming was caused by the slightly tweaked:eek2: sprocket hub.
My first thought was it was damaged when the hub was pressed on the axle, I know I tried installing it with out a press but only used a rubber mallet. if i can bend it with a rubber mallet then wtf:p
Im still trying to figure out just how this occured, and maybe someone out there has seen this type of thing before. I have seen them break into pieces, but never bend.