Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 14:37:26 GMT -5
Well, at the moment it appears I won;t be riding the Kymco for awile, had morning ride to ledges shattered by the header popping off. My fauly, i thought it sounded louder the last few days and I *meant* to check it when I did the valves...
One stud gone completely but it appears to have either worked itself out or snapped off well into the hole, seems to be enough that a new one would grab no problem, the other the studs there but the nut is gone. That's when the fun begins. The remaining stud, according to Kymco should be a 6mm X 16mm with a 6mm nut. 6mm is way to small, won't even grab a thread, the one 7mm I could find at the hardware store would grab threads but it's the wrong thread, and then a mystery nut I had laying around will actually twist on a couple of turns but then starts to bind. My thinking at this point, without looking further is that the studs were replaced at some point with something other than the OEM size, so I wonder if the missing stud was the same, or what I'm looking at.
Don't have a stand and I can't handle laying on the ground trying to mess with it, but I think I'll go ahead and pull the front wheel and get the new tire on and leave the exhaust for the first project in my new shop. But that's 6 weeks without riding... might not go well...
One stud gone completely but it appears to have either worked itself out or snapped off well into the hole, seems to be enough that a new one would grab no problem, the other the studs there but the nut is gone. That's when the fun begins. The remaining stud, according to Kymco should be a 6mm X 16mm with a 6mm nut. 6mm is way to small, won't even grab a thread, the one 7mm I could find at the hardware store would grab threads but it's the wrong thread, and then a mystery nut I had laying around will actually twist on a couple of turns but then starts to bind. My thinking at this point, without looking further is that the studs were replaced at some point with something other than the OEM size, so I wonder if the missing stud was the same, or what I'm looking at.
Don't have a stand and I can't handle laying on the ground trying to mess with it, but I think I'll go ahead and pull the front wheel and get the new tire on and leave the exhaust for the first project in my new shop. But that's 6 weeks without riding... might not go well...
