So today didn't go as planned... what's new? My wife has been very sick for 8 days so I drove her up to Rockford to a walk in clinic. Waited quite a while .good news is she doesn't have pneumonia just a bad case of the flu.
Got home tucked her back into bed and went to the garage. I tightened the axle and put the front end back together. Then cleaned the right and left sides of the engine. Then went to work removing the kickstand, cleaned it, then lubed it and put it all back together. Before I just put grease on it. As I am doing a thorough cleaning job on it after AK I removed it. There are 3 washers. 1 for under the nut. 2 act as spacers on each side of the kickstand but on the inside of it. If you don't do it correctly you will have a lot of slop in your kickstand from side to side. Then removed, cleaned and lubed the shift lever pivot. Went to the other side and did the same to the brake pedal. Found thst my AltRider pedal enlarger and riser was loose. Took care of that. Also tightened the AltRider kickstand foot enlarger too. Cleaning out the threads on every bolt. If it passes through and is exposed every bolt like that had white stuff on the threads where it was exposed. Calcium Chloride from AK!!
That pedal with its funky safety hair clip was a real pain the first time. I use a cotter pin puller to yank it out and to push it back in. No problems doing it that way. Then went to the clutch and brake lever pivots. After 14,000 miles and a lot of gravel along the way they weren't dry like they were at 13,500 miles from the dealer. They did have a thin layer of grease on them but you're supposed to do them every now and again... per section 3 in the FSM. I didn't feel like it was a waste of time on any of the pivot points. All clean again with fresh grease.
Just have to swap out Handlebar setbacks for risers tomorrow and put the windshield on. Then done.
Front end all done
Notice how the spring is stretched out...
While it is stretched out you put a quarter in every space and then put the kickstand up. This will keep the spring elongated so it is easy to remove when you unbolt the kickstand. Just remember to put it back on before you put the pivot bolt back in. I forgot tonight but I just used a cotter pin puller to stretch it maybe a 1/2"more to sest it as the quarters kept it elongated.
Be sure to clean the bushing on the kickstand. Pushes out with your finger.
Kickstand pivot bolt.