Telelever arm ball joint

[Bear]

Is replacing the telelever ball joint realistic as a DIY job?. It's only the gaiter that has split, the joint being OK, but apparently the gaiter isn't available on it's own. Before I read the Haynes, which talks of heating the bottom yoke to 120 C to remove the ball joint, which I don't fancy doing, I thought to remove the lower bolt holding the front suspension unit to allow the telelever arm to drop to provide the clearance to get the joint out.

 

[alex_rsa]

You will need to take the "triple-tree" (?) off the bike which means removing the whole front-end.

You will also need to build some kind of jig to hold the tree as it has to be torqued to some massive figure like 250nm (I had to buy a bigger torque wrench). You may be able to hold it in a vice but I welded some scafffolding pipe onto a 6 foot bar and slotted the tree over that. You will also need a socket that is pretty flat (and something like 41mm) as well.

It is not a difficult job except for the massive torque setting.


Good luck

 

[jwpzx9r]

The gaiter on mine has split as well But if the thing is just grease filled ? Maybe just as well to keep and eye on the greasing and tie wrap a bit of inner tube around it to keep the shit out? I seem to recall a gaiter which was used to fit around CV joints that were split to save having to remove drive shafts . It was held by jubilee clips I think.

 

[Thw Hobbt]

Is replacing the telelever ball joint realistic as a DIY job?. It's only the gaiter that has split, the joint being OK, but apparently the gaiter isn't available on it's own. Before I read the Haynes, which talks of heating the bottom yoke to 120 C to remove the ball joint, which I don't fancy doing, I thought to remove the lower bolt holding the front suspension unit to allow the telelever arm to drop to provide the clearance to get the joint out.

Do you need to remove the Joint? can you just remove the gaiter and replace it with the one from the new joint?