Yamaguy55
No difficult problems, just difficult people
RonH said:I've got about 300,000 miles on spoke wheels over the years and my personal experience is just keep the spokes tight, but don't overdo it or you'll end up with out of round, out of tolerance wheels. I would't use a torque wrench, but just me. This comes from 35 years ago a friend of mine had a 76 Yamaha DT100 enduro and it only had I think a thousand or so miles on it, but we noticed the spokes were all loose as all hell, so started attempting to tighten. Now assume we got out a torque wrench and started on any point of the wheel. We would turn that spoke a long ways, the next one a long ways and so on. we do this the wheel is way messed up out of round before we get around to the other side. We had this wheel like 1/4" up/down and 1/4" side to side, then tried loosening/tightening around the wheel to pull it better, but even though we were exceptionally mechanically inclined for 15 yrs old, no luck.If you do see loose ones, just tighten them up enough they aint loose anymore, but don't overdo it, then move on to the next part of the wheel. Other than this DT100 which was not mine I've never had a problem, just once in a while tap the screwdriver on the spokes, any loose, tighten, but not overly. I remember taking that wheel to Yamaha Denver here and they charged us $12 to true the wheel back in 76. We fought that wheel for hours and had it goofed up majorly. That mechanic was an angel I guess.
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