Former owners of my trikes = shabby work = piss me off sometimes !!

[Huffa]

I can't believe this guy was a Honda mechanic and put the wrong pitch threaded bolts in all my triple clamps and what should take a minute or two to remove all eight turned in to a nightmare, I can just feel they are strippng the threads and one busted off so I might as well just go ahead and get other 83/84 R triple clamps (I'm sure they are realatively cheap) rather then screw around with trying to get them out.

I did heat them and that made it even worse.

I'll post WTB in the classifieds, if you have any, contact me there.

I'm sure a lot of you guys run into expeiriences like this too, feel free to share .

[SYKO]

if they strip out dont despair, go get some longer grade8 bolts and but a locking nut on the end grade8 dosnt look that bad and they will be stronger than stock

[Huffa]

if they strip out dont despair, go get some longer grade8 bolts and but a locking nut on the end grade8 dosnt look that bad and they will be stronger than stock

Great idea .......... but I'm really picky, I want it how it should be and who knows how many more bolts will break, I did not even get to the right side yet !

To hassle with getting the bolts out is really a pain, I worked up a sweat doing it, there in that bad, then getting the busted one(s) out, just not worth it, ya know ?

[SYKO]

well, if you think so.... I would just drill the basdards out and proceed to get some nice grade8 get some chrome acorn caps for them, then they will look trick! save some cash i say, cuz if your going to get another set of tripples I want your old ones! hehehehe

[Huffa]

well, if you think so.... I would just drill the basdards out and proceed to get some nice grade8 get some chrome acorn caps for them, then they will look trick! save some cash i say, cuz if your going to get another set of tripples I want your old ones! hehehehe

Drill them out!! I know exactly what will happen there, just know it, since the bolts are steel and the trips are aluminum, I'd wallow the holes out some what and I can only imagine how long it would take to drill through an inch or so of the bolt, screw that man !

[Dirtcrasher]

Let me guess, he used a 5/16-18 standard thread in there that has a 1/2 hex head.

It's close to 8mm 1.25 but no cigar......

[atctim]

I've seen so much shotty work that pisses me off badly - but from a Honda Mechanic??????? WTF? - remind me to stay away from that Honda Shop!

[Chevy200s]

Now I see why you need new tripples. Like mentioned I would try carefully drilling and then retapping but thats just me. Actually, I had to do that one of my trikes a while back now that I think of it And I bet if you asked me then I would have rather just bought another set of tripple trees then fart around for hours with those ones, haha. If theres daylight when I get home I'll take those pics for you.

Yeah I've seen a lot of those kinds of fixes and to be honest I've done a few of them too, haha sometimes when you just want to get back out and ride you get desperate, and the magyver in ya comes out, haha. my buddies always say when something breaks, look out, here comes the farmer with a welder, haha

[Huffa]

yea, sometimes you got to do what ya got to do if your riding depends on it, trike won't be ready for a while (not even going to project a date anymore)
but I can just forsee what it will turn into, hours and hours of work and it's far easier to just buy a pair since the trike is just sitting anyway.

Maybe down the road I'll try to fix them but have too many other things to work on. I just keep adding to the list .......not really fixes though, mainly painting.

[Huffa]

I've seen so much shotty work that pisses me off badly - but from a Honda Mechanic??????? WTF? - remind me to stay away from that Honda Shop!

I don't understand it either although I'm now wondering if the threads are right and if that grade of steel bolts (their all rusted) created some kind of fusion between the two (alum/steel) metals because the threads really don't seem screwed up yet they really, REALLY turn hard ?

Definitly not Honda bolts though, hardware store variety most likely but they should have not rusted so bad ?

I did PB blast them too, didn't help much.

[edog]

Will 85 200X triples work?

[TwoHundredEx]

I know the feeling.
Previous owner not only lied to me about rebuilding it when he did the timing chain, but he also torqued the head down with freakin' gorilla strength for no reason! Not to mention he stripped one of the allen head bolts, and had the top motor mount bolts just sitting there, with no nuts!

[Huffa]

Will 85 200X triples work?

No, got to be the stockers.

hey edog, you got new blue fork boots on yours right?

Wondering because I have brand new 85/86's for sale, their too large in diameter for mine.

[super90]

I know what its like to have all the ghetto fixes on my bikes. My 200x has been pretty well taken care of though. Owner never ventured into the engine so that was good. But they drilled holes all through the swingarm for a grease zerk that went nowhere since the carriers blocking the bearings. So that let water in and seized the timkin pins. Nothing stripped though or welded on. But my 110 was a different story. The guy who had it broke and exhaust stud and drilled the hole out way too big and used a super coarse wood screw to hold it in! The exhaust was the worst by far, they broke it then glued it together, then drilled out 2 holes on each side and used flat bar to hole it together.engine studs were just really long bolts too, and the next week I had it the engine just stopped working all together. Probably the worst 200 ive ever spent!

[Huffa]

I know the feeling.
Previous owner not only lied to me about rebuilding it when he did the timing chain, but he also torqued the head down with freakin' gorilla strength for no reason! Not to mention he stripped one of the allen head bolts, and had the top motor mount bolts just sitting there, with no nuts!

Yea, on these used machines there is usally quite a lot of hidden "surprizes".

Got it all fixed ?