Balljoint swap on upper & lower yoke

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:45 am

Can anyone send on to me the special jig needed to change BOTH balljoints on the yokes? Or offer the best kitchen table method for this task? The nut for the upper balljoint is recessed into a tight well.
Thanks

winger · Post by **winger** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:09 pm

We'll let you know when ours turn up in the post!!!,the bottom one is a doddle,i've never had the top one out, will wait till the yokes turn up.

winger · Post by **winger** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:46 pm

Top and bottom yokes turned up saturday,without any import duty!!,mans done a good job,you don't need a jig for the bottom yoke,but will have to get one made for the top.

gus · Post by **gus** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:12 pm

and a bargain to boot what with the current exchange rate!

I have the ball joint tightening tool here if you need it.
gus

winger · Post by **winger** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:39 pm

Cheers dude, were the hell were you sunday???

Didn't realise how much bigger the custom yokes are jesus!!!,not a big as the one you had made,but a close second.

gus · Post by **gus** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:06 pm

winger wrote:Cheers dude, were the hell were you sunday???

Didn't realise how much bigger the custom yokes are jesus!!!,not a big as the one you had made,but a close second.

Sunday?Hmmm let me think.Ah yes,nursing a hangover of biblical proportions.I,m trying to get as many in before D day

.I think i may have watched some bikes on the telly too!
Give us a shout when you require the tool.
gus

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:45 pm

I think you guys had better have a closer look at the new yokes! Neither allows you to lock the ball joint nut in a vice. I hollowed out an old roof beam to match the contours of the top yoke, secured it and parked the front wheel of the car on the whole. Then a modified 46mm socket and a breaker bar. The 1/2 drive bar is too flimsy, it needs a 3/4 or better, a 1" drive for 240Nm.
The bottom yoke is easier, some wood pads and the front of the car again. If you have the correct tool; a pair of 30mm stubs welded onto bar, it would be sooo much easier. You will still require a vice mounted onto the back end of a Centurian tank, or something equally secure, which I dont have.
I also cheated and used new ball joints.

winger · Post by **winger** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:11 pm

Put two fork tubes in a vice(scrappers) dropped said top and bottom yokes over,Gus's socket,took all of two minutes,did the reverse put ball joints back on new yokes ,jobs a good'un.

gus · Post by **gus** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:55 pm

You see theres the hard way, and theres the brummie way.They dont call hammers brummie screwdrivers for nothing!

The yokes are a class bit of kit,beautifully designed and made.
gus

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:14 pm

Huh; old set of forks lying about??? A solid vice!!!? If only........

winger · Post by **winger** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:41 pm

What is it they say,'It's not what you know but who' and in the last six months never a truer words been said.

The biggest hassle with the yokes was getting the security bolts off the ignition switch,i've got a pillar drill but got though god knows how many drills,so took it to someone who's stolen more motorcycles than i have took seconds!!!,drilled a tiny hole banged in a torque bit in and screwed e'm out.

Gus stumped up a 46mm socket with a big feck off bar welded to it,and the rest is his history as they say,bit strange looking through the top yoke and seeing the cables and wires!!!

YouTube · Post by **Paul** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:09 am

Hi Chris,

Are you going to post up some pictures of your new top yoke for us to drool over? I briefly ventured over to "Bellyache", sorry, "Pelican" to take a look, but after scanning a couple of theads unsuccessfully I was starting to lose the will to live

.

Cheers,

Paul

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:54 am

Paul wrote:
I briefly ventured over to "Bellyache", sorry, "Pelican" to take a look, but after scanning a couple of theads unsuccessfully I was starting to lose the will to live .

Cheers,

Paul

You're not the only one

winger · Post by **winger** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:26 pm

Hi Paul

I still need to stick the badge in the middle back on,i'll do something thing then,i have to say the guy who had e'm made(Scott Hartley) certainley put a lot of effort in,even the clues,sorry instructions,were detailed to the enth degree.

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:06 pm

The new top yoke, pat pending : Scott Hartley:
http://by101w.bay101.mail.live.com/mail ... 0&dialog=1