Posted by frito on April 9, 2011, 6:11 pm
"George Pollard" wrote in message > On 4/5/2011 9:32 PM, Schmoe wrote:
>> "AH#104" wrote in message
>>>>> The spring was pretty tight but with a screw
>>>>> driver I was able to get it back in place.
>>>
>>>> #34 sed:
>>>> The hot tip for this is to attach both ends of
>>>> the spring before attaching the kickstand's pivot
>>>> point to the frame. You use the shaft as leverage
>>>> to stretch the spring and place the pivot point.
>>>> Easier done than said.
>>>
>>> Takes less than 90 seconds... as long as you have someone to hold up
>>> the bike for you.
>>> Had two springs on two bikes get squished on road bumps in Mexico
>>> (mine and kickstart's).
>>> Had the springs on with no trouble by taking out the bolt at the pivot
>>> point.
>>> Didn't even get my hands dirty.
>>
>> Good to know. I wasted 30 minutes trying to fix my brother's FLHT jiffy
>> spring but this tip is good to know. In his case, he had bottom out on
>> his trailer and broke the pivot piece. No fixxy, bungee.
> What worked for me was to loosen the bolt holding the stand enough to let
> it pivot forward, where the spring fits the holes without stretching, then
> pulling the jiffy stand back into place and tightening the bolt back up.
An alternative method is to bend the spring and stuff it full of pocket
change a little at a time, till it's long enough to install. Pull the coins
with pliers and go buy a cold drink from the nearest vending machine.
--
"frito"
Fred Snetzer
'01 FLHT
TOMKAT
IBA #10549 BS #162
http://eddiekieger.com/
Posted by AH#104 on April 9, 2011, 6:39 pm
frito sed:
>Pull the coins with pliers and go buy a cold drink from the nearest vending
>machine.
I would think they'd all drop to the ground when you put the jiffystand down
all the way....
ASSHOLE#104 Len
Posted by frito on April 9, 2011, 7:27 pm
"AH#104" wrote in message
> frito sed:
>>Pull the coins with pliers and go buy a cold drink from the nearest
>>vending machine.
> I would think they'd all drop to the ground when you put the jiffystand
> down all the way....
I kinda thought the same thing (I was just trying something I read on the
net), but it took some tugging to get the coins out the time I did it. It's
been a long time since I buggered that first spring and had to do the
parking lot replacement. Some of the ¢ may have come out easy, but I do
remember having to use pliers a bit. I guess the only advantage would be
that if you had no tools at all, you could probably manage to install the
spring. I wish I'd known to spin the stand around then, I had the tools,
but lacked the know how. I used the spin around method for my second &
third spring replacement. It's a piece of cake doing it at home working off
the Handy Lift.
Funny, we were staying in Eureka Springs when I drug the first spring coming
out of a parking lot and stretched it out. We went on a ride and my stand
was hanging low enough to drag on left hand curves. We stopped at an Indy
shop near Harrison and the dude had a genuine HD spring in stock, but didn't
have time to install it (that forced me to use the coin method in the
parking lot). I guess he didn't know about the swing around method either
or he would have taken me for a quick buck.
"frito"
Fred Snetzer
'01 FLHT
TOMKAT
IBA #10549 BS #162
http://eddiekieger.com/
Posted by Old Crow on April 10, 2011, 6:50 am
> "AH#104" wrote in message
>> frito sed:
>>>Pull the coins with pliers and go buy a cold drink from the nearest
>>>vending machine.
>>
>> I would think they'd all drop to the ground when you put the jiffystand
>> down all the way....
>>
> I kinda thought the same thing (I was just trying something I read on the
> net), but it took some tugging to get the coins out the time I did it.
> It's been a long time since I buggered that first spring and had to do the
> parking lot replacement. Some of the ¢ may have come out easy, but I do
> remember having to use pliers a bit. I guess the only advantage would be
> that if you had no tools at all, you could probably manage to install the
> spring. I wish I'd known to spin the stand around then, I had the tools,
> but lacked the know how. I used the spin around method for my second &
> third spring replacement. It's a piece of cake doing it at home working
> off the Handy Lift.
> Funny, we were staying in Eureka Springs when I drug the first spring
> coming out of a parking lot and stretched it out. We went on a ride and
> my stand was hanging low enough to drag on left hand curves. We stopped
> at an Indy shop near Harrison and the dude had a genuine HD spring in
> stock, but didn't have time to install it (that forced me to use the coin
> method in the parking lot). I guess he didn't know about the swing around
> method either or he would have taken me for a quick buck.
Was that at Concepts?
Hadn't heard from Useless in years, since they closed. He had a shop out at
that biker convention center they tried to start at the old Dogpatch park,
but gave up on that. Saw him at the swap meet in Feb, and now he's runnin'
another shop in Harrison(out of his house, I think).
--
Old Crow
'82 FLTC(P) 92"
'87 FLTC
'61 F-100 302/C-6
BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, SLOB#13, MAMBM
Posted by AH#104 on April 10, 2011, 7:08 am
Old Crow sed:
>> Was that at Concepts?
>> Hadn't heard from Useless in years, since they closed. He had a shop out
>> at that biker convention center they tried to start at the old Dogpatch
>> park, but gave up on that. Saw him at the swap meet in Feb, and now he's
>> runnin' another shop in Harrison(out of his house, I think).
>Quote:from Phil:
>- DO snip out irrelevant portions of the post you are quoting.
>It's not necessary for us to see the signature and headers from the
>previous post (except for the attributions). We also don't want to see 200
>lines quoted simply for someone to add "Me too". Don't go crazy here, we
>still have to know what you're replying to!
ASSHOLE#104 Len
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>>>>> The spring was pretty tight but with a screw
>>>>> driver I was able to get it back in place.
>>>
>>>> #34 sed:
>>>> The hot tip for this is to attach both ends of
>>>> the spring before attaching the kickstand's pivot
>>>> point to the frame. You use the shaft as leverage
>>>> to stretch the spring and place the pivot point.
>>>> Easier done than said.
>>>
>>> Takes less than 90 seconds... as long as you have someone to hold up
>>> the bike for you.
>>> Had two springs on two bikes get squished on road bumps in Mexico
>>> (mine and kickstart's).
>>> Had the springs on with no trouble by taking out the bolt at the pivot
>>> point.
>>> Didn't even get my hands dirty.
>>
>> Good to know. I wasted 30 minutes trying to fix my brother's FLHT jiffy
>> spring but this tip is good to know. In his case, he had bottom out on
>> his trailer and broke the pivot piece. No fixxy, bungee.
> What worked for me was to loosen the bolt holding the stand enough to let
> it pivot forward, where the spring fits the holes without stretching, then
> pulling the jiffy stand back into place and tightening the bolt back up.