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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
RFM lug cracked
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<blockquote data-quote="peterg" data-source="post: 17628" data-attributes="member: 446"><p>Howdy Chaps,</p><p> </p><p>Anyone think it odd that lug would crack there? Everyone's probably seen the axle slots of these poor lugs spread wide apart from overzealous engine starting while the machine on the rear stand without even cracking. In answer to whether these can be "welded", not knowing any better at the time, I will say yes, with a standard 110 mig using .025 wire in my case - that's the extent of the technical explanation.</p><p> </p><p>My Shadow had a hopelessly stripped left side axle adjuster containing the matching rfm #, I wasn't changing it out. I bored a slightly oversized hole on the load side (inside the lug fork) of the adjuster hole, turned down a nut of the suitable thread pitch into tube shape, cut small slots on either side of the lug at the root of the adjustment slot to enable good weld penetration, inserted that now tube shaped nut in in against the land in the base of the bore and welded it up around its permiter and from both sides. </p><p> </p><p>Think I might be tempted to take a Dremel slot out that crack and weld it up, least for now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="peterg, post: 17628, member: 446"] Howdy Chaps, Anyone think it odd that lug would crack there? Everyone's probably seen the axle slots of these poor lugs spread wide apart from overzealous engine starting while the machine on the rear stand without even cracking. In answer to whether these can be "welded", not knowing any better at the time, I will say yes, with a standard 110 mig using .025 wire in my case - that's the extent of the technical explanation. My Shadow had a hopelessly stripped left side axle adjuster containing the matching rfm #, I wasn't changing it out. I bored a slightly oversized hole on the load side (inside the lug fork) of the adjuster hole, turned down a nut of the suitable thread pitch into tube shape, cut small slots on either side of the lug at the root of the adjustment slot to enable good weld penetration, inserted that now tube shaped nut in in against the land in the base of the bore and welded it up around its permiter and from both sides. Think I might be tempted to take a Dremel slot out that crack and weld it up, least for now. [/QUOTE]
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