Carpe the thread !

[WD Forte]

Doing a pre MOT check on the old thing I remembered the last MOT had an advisory of 'slight play in front wheel bearings' and had to agree there was a bit.
So, having a pair of new 6302RS bearings in the box, decided to be a good boy and change them.

Jacked up the front, whipped off the calipers all going swimmingly until
one nut on the RH fork leg bottom which clamped the spindle was very tight
and sheared off.
Argh!
Bollocks, nothings ever easy is it?

After a cuppa and muttering foul curses I carried on and did the wheel bearings and re-examined the snapped stud.
Luckily it snapped close to the nut which left some of the stud and thread
exposed so I dressed it with a file, fitted a nut and went and fetched the MIG welder.

Even with a nut welded on it felt utterly solid and as if it wanted to shear off flush with the fork tube just to spite me, so I gingerly worked it back and forth with 24" stilsons on the nut until it budged slightly.
Applying and releasing torque got it to move more and more until with great relief it ran out.
Whoo hoo!
I'd already been gloomily planning the leg removal, drilling and and M8 helicoil arseache but luckily avoided that.

No new stud to hand so I used a cut down 70mm M8 mild steel bolt to act as a substitute until I get a new HT stud.
I left enough thread to fit a lock nut over the new nut to draw the stud out in situ and ordered a slightly longer HT stud to be able to do the same to fit the new one.

https://imgur.com/fwRgD2v.jpg
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[Pete.]

Good save

Sometimes the least likely ones seize and cause you a problem but then you get ones like that which promise to be a mighty arse-ache then end up coming out without much trouble.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[jeffyjeff]

Nice touch on the extraction, and an improvement with a repair that will facilitate stud removal in the future. Nice.
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History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men - BOC

[MCN]

Jammy Bastirt.


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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

I'm disappointed that a seized fastener thread has very little scope to span dozens of pages, multiple visits to engineering workshops with parts in hand, no blood sweat or tears, no ne'er do well interlopers chucking in their tuppence worth.

Just a bloke bragging about how he just perfectly seduced it from its sordid little grief hole.

Hopefully that rusty stud has galvanic bronchitis and dies in situ, requiring a court visit with bailiffs to evict the decomposed corpse, which becomes possessed, reanimates itself with full on foul adult language, and demands a full exorcism replete with men of the holy cloth, holy water, a tuna smelling crucifix and vomit.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[WD Forte]

We could yet have
CarpeII-The Threads of Fate
where our fresh faced young hero, (some artistic license here)
still in a state of bliss after his recent lucky escape from corrosive hell
goes to change the stud when evil tragedy strikes....
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