Wrenching on the Dnepr

 

I've only had this rig a few days and already parts are starting
to work their way loose and fall off. For instance today I noticed
the handlebars were angled off sideways... a nut had unscrewed itself
from underneath one of the fallback risers and is no doubt lying
out there somewhere on the unsearchable vastness of the Road.

The threads don't seem to match anything in my junk box, so I look
around the bike for a similar nut that I can spare... and I borrow
one from a swingarm clamp. (There are two on each side of the bike,
right next to each other... but I can't replace the bolt with something
with a more standard thread size because it's held captive by
the battery bracket... so how did they ever get the thing in there
in the 1st place... then one of the jerry can bracket screws worked
loose, adding to the routine clatter and rattle...

The nuts and bolts seem to be a crazy mixture of metric and inch sizes
sometimes on the same fastener ... (ie the saddle bolt is 14mm but
the nut is 5/8") ...

SQ - "The Japanese didn't loose the war because their bikes broke down."
'06 Zook S40 / '85 Dnepr MT-11 / various mouldering derelicts

 


If it were me, I'd be strongly tempted to convert everything
I could to metric. I'd bet the SAE stuff got put on by the PO.

Locally, I can get a fair amount of metric stuff at my local
Ace and OSH hardware stores. For really obscure stuff,
there's the internet.

Metric nylon lock nuts would help. Where there's
heat though, you want a locking thread as the nylon
will soften.

 



This will be down to the previous owner: the bloke who fettled it and
worked on it until he got it exactly how he liked it.

There'll be some sort of hand-forged component in there too, secured by
matured oak pegs.


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On Aug 22, 1:52 am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

Actually the 5/8" is 16 MM, which is sometimes left out of metric
wrench sets.  The two different sizes are used because you have onl
one of each size wrench in the tool kit.

That things are falling off can be laid on the previous owner.  If
everything was tightened properly they would stay put.

I don't own a Dnepr myself but have friends that do.  It is my
understanding that some parts have issues about heat treatment and the
work around is to replace them with BMW parts that fit.  I don't know
the specifics but there is probably a Dnepr group on the net somewhere.

 



A sort of motorcycle Alcoholics Anonymous :-)

"My name is Greg, and I bought a Dnepr..."


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