Steering head adjustment question
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Steering head adjustment question
My dealer tells me that they check the steering head by making the handle bars swing back and forth x amount of times. They say they do this with the fairing (SG) attached. I thought I read somewhere that this test is to be performed with the entire fairing removed.
Does anyone know how to properly perform this test?
Does anyone know how to properly perform this test?
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RE: Steering head adjustment question
Is that the test where you put bike on a lift and push steering in one direction and it should bounce back in a pattern of some sort? if doesnt then steering adjustment is needed or something like that?
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ORIGINAL: voodoodrug
Is that the test where you put bike on a lift and push steering in one direction and it should bounce back in a pattern of some sort? if doesnt then steering adjustment is needed or something like that?
Is that the test where you put bike on a lift and push steering in one direction and it should bounce back in a pattern of some sort? if doesnt then steering adjustment is needed or something like that?
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Streetrunner, this is the test you are looking for:
1) Wheels off the ground andon a level surface.
2)Turnbars to the left steering stop and thenlet go.
3) the adjustment is correct if the wheel swings full right, then left and back to the right.
Note: the second swing to the left will not go to the stop and the third swing back to the right will be a partial swing stoppping at random. Less than 3 swings = too tight and more than 3 swings = too loose.
Streeter
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1) Wheels off the ground andon a level surface.
2)Turnbars to the left steering stop and thenlet go.
3) the adjustment is correct if the wheel swings full right, then left and back to the right.
Note: the second swing to the left will not go to the stop and the third swing back to the right will be a partial swing stoppping at random. Less than 3 swings = too tight and more than 3 swings = too loose.
Streeter
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RE: Steering head adjustment question
ORIGINAL: streeter
Streetrunner, this is the test you are looking for:
1) Wheels off the ground andon a level surface.
2)Turnbars to the left steering stop and thenlet go.
3) the adjustment is correct if the wheel swings full right, then left and back to the right.
Note: the second swing to the left will not go to the stop and the third swing back to the right will be a partial swing stoppping at random. Less than 3 swings = too tight and more than 3 swings = too loose.
Streeter
07 FLHX
Streetrunner, this is the test you are looking for:
1) Wheels off the ground andon a level surface.
2)Turnbars to the left steering stop and thenlet go.
3) the adjustment is correct if the wheel swings full right, then left and back to the right.
Note: the second swing to the left will not go to the stop and the third swing back to the right will be a partial swing stoppping at random. Less than 3 swings = too tight and more than 3 swings = too loose.
Streeter
07 FLHX
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ORIGINAL: voodoodrug
ok ive seen it done and they did not remove fairing.
ok ive seen it done and they did not remove fairing.
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ORIGINAL: Streetrunner
Thanks Streeter but is this done with the fairing attached to the bike? The dealer says they think so but I'm thinking I read somewhere that the fairing should be removed. I don't have a whole lot of confidence in dealers. I feel better relying on the responses from this forum.
ORIGINAL: streeter
Streetrunner, this is the test you are looking for:
1) Wheels off the ground andon a level surface.
2)Turnbars to the left steering stop and thenlet go.
3) the adjustment is correct if the wheel swings full right, then left and back to the right.
Note: the second swing to the left will not go to the stop and the third swing back to the right will be a partial swing stoppping at random. Less than 3 swings = too tight and more than 3 swings = too loose.
Streeter
07 FLHX
Streetrunner, this is the test you are looking for:
1) Wheels off the ground andon a level surface.
2)Turnbars to the left steering stop and thenlet go.
3) the adjustment is correct if the wheel swings full right, then left and back to the right.
Note: the second swing to the left will not go to the stop and the third swing back to the right will be a partial swing stoppping at random. Less than 3 swings = too tight and more than 3 swings = too loose.
Streeter
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