Chain buffer replacement. It is possible without removing the swingarm

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762fmj

Discussion Starter · Nov 24, 2013

Sheesh! That was like mud wrestling a nubile wench tag team. We'll sort of. The PO had cut the bottom half of the chain buffer off for some bizarre reason .... Having sorted out the rivnut problem I just had to replace it with a new one .... £35 for a chunck of engineered rubber. So, how'd you do that without removing the swingarm. Answer: warm it up and gently feed it through behind the front sprocket and the frame. Sounds easy. It's not! But it certainly is possible as I now have mine in place. So glad I deep cleaned in there the other day.
Having removed the damaged one I realised that replacing it wasn't absolutely necessary as it wasn't going anywhere. Just looked wrong. Me being me had to have it corrected. All good now.

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snowblind

· #2 · Nov 24, 2013

Having just replaced the chain buffer on my TL-R I'm surprised you managed to do that with the swing-arm in place. Kudos to you for managing it though.

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762fmj

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 24, 2013

snowblind said:
.... I'm surprised you managed to do that with the swing-arm in place ...

It's a subtle blend of tenacity, ignorance and arrogance. Apparently ... according to my wife ... I have those traits in abundance. :lol

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snowblind

· #4 · Nov 24, 2013

Succeeding because you don't know your supposed to fail - of such a thing is greatness borne.

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Pat Man TLR

· #5 · Nov 25, 2013

I just change my chain slider on my 02 TLR it went in no problem I took off the clutch slave cylinder and the front sproket then slide the guide in no problem, took me about an hour, I change the slider because it was broken and causing the bike to shake because it was binding on the chain, I figure while I was in there I might as well change the chain and sproket because they were getting worn. I was going to do it over the winter but had to do it back in August because I still had a few month of riding left.

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762fmj

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 25, 2013

Pat Man TLR said:
... I change the slider because it was broken and causing the bike to shake because it was binding on the chain ...

Whoa Pat Man ... That sounds scary. Glad you were able to sort it relatively easily. I'd just put mine back together and got lazy .... Didn't want to strip the chain and sprocket down again so went for the micro surgery approach. I reckon I was on the limit of viability with this technique.

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