Hey Guys,
A year ago my local non-honda bike shop screwed up my OEM bearings by over tightening them since I was complaining about the pan weave. Lesson learned! As he was trying to fix the mess he created, he got so frustrated that he sent my bike up to the local Honda shop and they put in tapered bearings and completed the job. Bearings felt pretty good and I like them. I'm aware of the pan weave at high speeds and have experienced that, but I never had wobble behind tractor trailers like I do now. At highway speeds you can start weaving 2-3 inches side to side from being behind a truck or coming up onto a truck....and I'm not talking within the normal buffing zone or a truck but way before that. Sometimes even a row of cars will create the weave. I've lowered my tire pressure a tad and that has helped.
I've looked at a lot of threads on this and it definitely seems like Honda has the tapered bearings torqued within spec but maybe a tad to tight. As I'm looking for correct torque specs I'm seeing a few posts and links but just wanting to make sure that those torque specs are for the tapered and not the older OEM bearing.
Any thoughts without starting a whole new thread on tapered vs. roller?
Thanks!
A year ago my local non-honda bike shop screwed up my OEM bearings by over tightening them since I was complaining about the pan weave. Lesson learned! As he was trying to fix the mess he created, he got so frustrated that he sent my bike up to the local Honda shop and they put in tapered bearings and completed the job. Bearings felt pretty good and I like them. I'm aware of the pan weave at high speeds and have experienced that, but I never had wobble behind tractor trailers like I do now. At highway speeds you can start weaving 2-3 inches side to side from being behind a truck or coming up onto a truck....and I'm not talking within the normal buffing zone or a truck but way before that. Sometimes even a row of cars will create the weave. I've lowered my tire pressure a tad and that has helped.
I've looked at a lot of threads on this and it definitely seems like Honda has the tapered bearings torqued within spec but maybe a tad to tight. As I'm looking for correct torque specs I'm seeing a few posts and links but just wanting to make sure that those torque specs are for the tapered and not the older OEM bearing.
Any thoughts without starting a whole new thread on tapered vs. roller?
Thanks!