"BLAHH"300!!
01-13-2002, 08:58 PM
tomarrow i'm going to have time to strip it down and go after those hard to reach places on my bike but i have a few questions first......
..1st...my rear axel is a little loose..not enugh to make a deffinate differance.."but any wobble is not good"..how do i go about tightening it up..it has a little play in it not sliding from left to right but i can grab it wiith the chain loose and give it a shake....i tried figureing out where a the place was to tighten it but i'm lost...one side has the chain tightening thing and the other realy doesn't have anything...what do i tighten or loosen or how does this work...i have a new set a berrings ready to go in if thats what it needs but i don't think so..i just had the rear axel replaced about a year ago....
...2nd....sqeeky front end....it's either the shock or the bushing in the front end of my bike making it sqeek when i either hit a bump
or shake the bike from left to right while sitting on it...has anyone found a good way to get in there and lube this up and make it stop...it doesnt realy bother me.it just sounds cheep.....
...3rd...trimming fender's...what did you guys use to trim em' up...i already have the fronts shaved and i used a jigg-saw for that..is that what you guys are using.?? i'm getting a new set of rears soon and i'm going to shave a little off the bottom...and the fender's that are on there now i'm going to scalp....a freind of mine broke my right rear off and it broke with a little point coming off towards the back...kinda like the seat on the old..suzuki lt500 or like on the new ..suzuki z400...either way..i'm going to trim that side up a little and round it off then shave the other side to match it....and use the new set for everyday ridin' and the super "scalped" set for riding in sand and other times when i know there's no mud or water to worry about.....
..4th..let me get this streight....the only 2 places to grease a 300ex is at the front brakes...where else is there a place to grease that i way have looked over.....what do you guys use to fix the squeeky noise coming from the front end....
..5th..what da' ya' think..i have my rear sprokett painted white..my rear hubs painted white..and that thin piece of metal behind the front rim.with the holes in it.painted white...now i'm thinking about going ahead and sanding that ole' rusty bar that holds your nerf bars together..in the center front of the bike..paint that and my foot pegs white......all the things that i already have painted white look clean and are holding up real good.better than i thought....so i'm not worried about it chipping...
..6th..what have i missed..let me know of some other things i should probably do while i'm at it...yes i'm chainging oil and filter while i'm at it.and i'm hitting the chain also...but what else..breather...<..did that today...
..1st...my rear axel is a little loose..not enugh to make a deffinate differance.."but any wobble is not good"..how do i go about tightening it up..it has a little play in it not sliding from left to right but i can grab it wiith the chain loose and give it a shake....i tried figureing out where a the place was to tighten it but i'm lost...one side has the chain tightening thing and the other realy doesn't have anything...what do i tighten or loosen or how does this work...i have a new set a berrings ready to go in if thats what it needs but i don't think so..i just had the rear axel replaced about a year ago....
...2nd....sqeeky front end....it's either the shock or the bushing in the front end of my bike making it sqeek when i either hit a bump
or shake the bike from left to right while sitting on it...has anyone found a good way to get in there and lube this up and make it stop...it doesnt realy bother me.it just sounds cheep.....
...3rd...trimming fender's...what did you guys use to trim em' up...i already have the fronts shaved and i used a jigg-saw for that..is that what you guys are using.?? i'm getting a new set of rears soon and i'm going to shave a little off the bottom...and the fender's that are on there now i'm going to scalp....a freind of mine broke my right rear off and it broke with a little point coming off towards the back...kinda like the seat on the old..suzuki lt500 or like on the new ..suzuki z400...either way..i'm going to trim that side up a little and round it off then shave the other side to match it....and use the new set for everyday ridin' and the super "scalped" set for riding in sand and other times when i know there's no mud or water to worry about.....
..4th..let me get this streight....the only 2 places to grease a 300ex is at the front brakes...where else is there a place to grease that i way have looked over.....what do you guys use to fix the squeeky noise coming from the front end....
..5th..what da' ya' think..i have my rear sprokett painted white..my rear hubs painted white..and that thin piece of metal behind the front rim.with the holes in it.painted white...now i'm thinking about going ahead and sanding that ole' rusty bar that holds your nerf bars together..in the center front of the bike..paint that and my foot pegs white......all the things that i already have painted white look clean and are holding up real good.better than i thought....so i'm not worried about it chipping...
..6th..what have i missed..let me know of some other things i should probably do while i'm at it...yes i'm chainging oil and filter while i'm at it.and i'm hitting the chain also...but what else..breather...<..did that today...