Nice one Rich, can we see before and after pics of your knuckles please?
You in the Passat today?
Well Motorworks as usual did an immediate despatch and I received it on Thursday.
Here is the new arm , and old arm. It wasn't seized and moved freely so must have been a stress fracture in the casting. My bike, I'm starting to think had a dodgy batch of alloy as the rear luggage rack has also cracked!
In all it took me about an hour but I have to say it was the most difficult job I have ever done. And I'm way past level 2 on my meccano set.
I removed the rear shock to get some access and could have done with a small boy. My small daughter wouldn't get her hands dirty.
Its a very fiddly job, it could take 2 seconds to get the bolt back in or 2+ hours, I didn't think at one point it was going to be possible.
But it was
Tools used:
14mm, 15mm spanners for shock, 13mm spanner for arm bolt, 13mm long socket to readjust the clutch.
Mechanical Knouce:
1
Fiddlyness:
10
Am I lucky or unlucky to have this happen
it happened at the end of my road and I was able to free wheel all the way to my drive, it could have happened a couple of hundred mile ago in the Picos
Has anyone seen it before and any ideas how easy it it to replace , I've not had a look yet.
Its an 1100
I must get one to take everywhere with me, along with the driveshaft, crankshaft, final drive, gearbox, hall sensor, spare computer, fuel pump, pressure regulator, spare tyres, ABS unit, clutch
Stewart
