Hey all, this happened to me about 3 month ago where I noticed some silver shaving on the floor under my bike upon inspection the oval nuts on the back bolts that hold the sproket on are coming loose and standing proud which aree in turn grinding my swing arm away anyway I took the wheel to bits and tightened everything up....sweet! But after a ring yesterday I was tinkering and noticed the same thing again silver filings again not to the same extreme as last time but there are 3/4 nuts that have worked loose. So wondering if anyone else has had this problem and knows of a solution other than putting like a metal clue on it but that would mean getting the angle grinder on them when I want to take them off?
Sproket bolts shearing my swing arm!
7 posts · Started by THEDUKE · 24 Jul 2011
Post 2 by MADDOG53,
#2Common problem,,,,,do a tear down and lock tite the fook out of em , and re-assemble,,,,
Post 3 by BASH69,
#3What Maddog said - locktite the shit outta em!
Post 4 by KTM666,
#4x 3 There is a tread about this
Post 5 by steeeve66,
#5I bought my bike used and noticed the same thing a week after taking delivery. Only the way I found out was that I noticed one of the nuts falling to the ground upon setting her over on the kick stand. Definitely take it apart and from what I'm told, use the blue locktite and retorque. Like the guys said, there's another thread here somewhere covering this. P.S. Mine had about 4700 miles on it. Good luck.
Post 6 by THEDUKE,
#6me too, take the wheel off, take all the bolts off clean them and refit every thing to the correct torque with a blob of locktite...
Post 7 by KTM666,
#7Cheers for that, just done it so i hope that will be the end of it.
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