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I am rebuilding my jiffy stand again. Did it about 3 years ago, new spring and everything and it's never worked right, well ****, it hasn't worked right since I bought the bike with 124 miles on the clock. The manual calls for anti-seize on the shaft and contact points and I'm pretty sure that's what I used when I rebuilt it, but there is so much friction that the spring can't pull it up and it has to be pushed closed. So, what's a better option to make my shaft slippery and resist moisture?
If you put a dab of anti-seize on the shaft and you still have so much friction that the spring won't pull it up to the closed position, you have something wrong with it.
More or another kind of lube isn't going to fix that kind of issue.
Something is bent or broken (bent shaft, weak spring, etc).
Did you "stretch" the spring with channel locks or something when installing the spring?
If you put a dab of anti-seize on the shaft and you still have so much friction that the spring won't pull it up to the closed position, you have something wrong with it.
More or another kind of lube isn't going to fix that kind of issue.
Something is bent or broken (bent shaft, weak spring, etc).
Did you "stretch" the spring with channel locks or something when installing the spring?
You could be right, when I pull it off, I'll give everything another once over. And pretty sure the spring is all good.
Maybe you have rust or other imperfections causing the friction. Remove jiffy stand and inspect shaft and inside the mount. And I have not had luck with aftermarket springs on my Sportster, always hung low until I found an OEM spring on the Bay, all good now. It is the little things.
Maybe you have rust or other imperfections causing the friction. Remove jiffy stand and inspect shaft and inside the mount. And I have not had luck with aftermarket springs on my Sportster, always hung low until I found an OEM spring on the Bay, all good now. It is the little things.
It is a Drag spring, but it's tight AF. Hopefully I'll get a chance to drop it this weekend.
I can't remember what kind of anti-seize I used when I rebuilt it a few years back, but I think it was the stick stuff, and it might have been copper? Getting old, don't remember. What was left was a gummy and, in some places, really hard substance with no lubricity. It also picked up a lot of road grime.
Going to go through it all get it nice and clean and take some fine sandpaper to the bad spots and reassemble with silver anti-seize (pic at the bottom), the brush on stuff. Hopefully that solves it.
I notice something in your pictures that you may want to pay closer attention too.
I agree that whatever you used to lube the stand before likely wasn't doing you any favors.
But I also see where you are placing coins in between the coils of your spring.
I assume this is so you can get the spring installed.
However, there really isn't any need at all for doing that and it could cause some stretching in the spring that is not good.
Here is a video that shows you how to very easily install the spring without any coins or stretching.
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