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Jul 20, 2009 | 07:01 AM

chrome-dome-dave

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So saturday mornin I hop on my bike and my roomates hop theres and were headed out for a ride. ABout acouples hrs later my buddy goes man you got something rubbing producing smoke from the rear. So I pull over take a look and the right side of my tire has a tacky strip all the way around it from rubbing the inside of the fender, sh_t was wrong here? So Im looking everything seems fine and thought I prob blew a shock. I get home Take it over my buddies where he has a lift and we start looking and I see that the rear bolt that hold the shock to the swingarm sheared off leaving the threaded part still in the swing arm. Dude that could have been really nasty spill if the other one had broke. So now I got the swing arm off and im trying to get it out but if I cant im going to be looking for a swingarm for a 06 softail standard with the 200 tire.

Jul 20, 2009 | 07:13 AM

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if you have never taken that bolt off before then your in for a treat ... if you have it wont be that hard unless you locktite'd it

Jul 20, 2009 | 07:24 AM

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If you have a jack, the bolt is easy to take off. Jack the bike up. Put a 19mm box end wrench on the bolt and angle the wrench down to the garage floor. Lower the bike down to the ground. Bolt's loose.

Jul 20, 2009 | 09:25 AM

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The bolt broke off in the swingarm. Yes its been out I lowered it with lowering bolts. Ive already been at for alil over an hour, and it sucks ***.

Jul 20, 2009 | 10:42 AM

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just a tip do not get the easy out removers go to the local snap on guy or napa and get a set of FLUTE'd bolt removers ... they dont have the extreme taper the home depot crap has ... they are not cheap but less expensive than a swingarm.... I got mine from snapon for around 80 bills and they are great and come with left hand drill bits ... good luck ...

Jul 20, 2009 | 11:17 AM

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Already got them and no go. Actually i found a swing arm for 85 bucks shipped used, someone replace theres with a chrome one. So ill have a back up just in case this crap happens again.