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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
FF57 and its bigger brother
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 21543" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>I take your point, but mine does sit pretty well topped out, and there's about 1/4" clearance worst case. When I jacked it up under the engine to swap FF57/2's for FF57's, it scarcely lifted. (And what a bloody awful job it was, in a temperature just over freezing!)</p><p>I had the opportunity again to use a Spanish windlass (orange binder twine, doubled) to take one front spring off, and while I wouldn't recommend this operation to anyone "of a nervous disposition", the top bolt, once slackened, came out by hand. And, job done, it went straight back in again, again by hand, and I didn't punch a hole through the tank because the windlass had slipped. Easy peasy. It is important to use more binder twine to secure it so that it can not slip before cranking the handle up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 21543, member: 4034"] I take your point, but mine does sit pretty well topped out, and there's about 1/4" clearance worst case. When I jacked it up under the engine to swap FF57/2's for FF57's, it scarcely lifted. (And what a bloody awful job it was, in a temperature just over freezing!) I had the opportunity again to use a Spanish windlass (orange binder twine, doubled) to take one front spring off, and while I wouldn't recommend this operation to anyone "of a nervous disposition", the top bolt, once slackened, came out by hand. And, job done, it went straight back in again, again by hand, and I didn't punch a hole through the tank because the windlass had slipped. Easy peasy. It is important to use more binder twine to secure it so that it can not slip before cranking the handle up. [/QUOTE]
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