Tight Hole Getting Tiresome

 

Drinks on me.  Perhaps some of you might remember a post I made (about
a year ago) regarding the stuck axle in my Street Bob, which I
encountered when trying to remove the rear wheel for a tire change.
After eventually pounding the axle out with a hammer and drift, I
emory-clothed everything smooth, applied some good, non-copper anti-
seize to it and put the axle back in, thinking that would solve the
problem for next time around.

I guess that didn't improve the situation because, this year again,
that freakin' axle was stuck again.  So this time I bought a gear
puller to get the axle out, which worked so nicely that I decided to
add a Web page to my site showing it.  That new page is at
http://www.xidos.ca/Technical/RepairitYourself/StuckAxleAgain/tabid/193/Default.aspx .

What makes this a bit puzzling is that, once the axle was out, I put
it back in, as-is, without applying new anti-seize.  It went in quite
easily and came out quite easily!  Ah well, what would life be without
a few mysteries. It seems to stick only if it's been in there for a
long while, I guess.

 

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:45:52 -0800 (PST), "Road Glidin' Don"


I had a whole different scenario in mind till I read the story.
Like my Uncle Bob used to say..."They are all tight for me kid!".

danl

 


Heh, heh.  Maybe I should have titled it, "Hole Still Tight After
25,000 Miles!"

 

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:45:52 -0800 (PST), "Road Glidin' Don"


You just need to stop wearin out those back tires!  ;-)

 


Well, we really solved that problem in Gladys' case this year.  Her
Sporty was in need of a change this winter too.

So we traded it in for a brand new new Softail.  Man, the money we
saved!  <g>