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Mine is fine in performance terms... (10K miles) . but actually shitty in appearance. There was no rear hugger fitted.

Is it relatively easy to get out.... If I take out all preload.. do I need to compress the springs in any way... or will it come out without removing half the bike.

I just want to spruce it up.. it looks a mess.

Stuart

Stuart,

The rear shock comes out very easily (rear wheel removed and swing arm hanging free).

If the bolts haven't been moved in a few years - you may need some WD40 or similar as the steel/alloy interface may be tight.
Give the bolts a smear with Molykote, grease or vaseline when re-fitting.

Al

Cheers Al.... I will first give it a soak this weekend.

Stuart

Blackal wrote:Stuart,

The rear shock comes out very easily (rear wheel removed and swing arm hanging free).

Al

Providing you don't have a Remus exhaust In this case you can only get the lower bolt out if you remove the exhaust

Jason

I'll be replacing my shock but is the bottom shock bolt supposed to be 14mm, my rounded edge socket seems a bit too loose!
Dave

Mines 14mm dave,so i expect yours is as well

Just picked up on what Jason has said. I've got the Remus system and am just about to replace the rear shock. Looked last night and yep the exaust needs to come off to get to the lower bolt. What a palaver ! What needs to be dismantiled to get to the bolt that secures the end cans to the frame ? I was thinking of splitting the exhaust at the y-piece via the 4 M6 bolts and taking the whole thing off rather than trying to separate the individual pieces. Is this the best way ? Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

Scotty

When I took the shocks of mine, I splt the exhaust at the join by the Y piece (4 bolts) and let the exhaust drop a bit, which was if I remember correctly was enough to allow the bolt removal.

Steve

Also If I remember rightly.... there is no bolt under the seat.... the silencers simply sit on two pins with rubber mounts... the bolt being on the down pipe.

Stuart

I had a very frustrating afternoon when I had the rear shock fitted. Remus had to be removed. Cans come off with down pies quite easily but prior to that the plasticine bolts used to attach rear part of system to header pipes all sheared off. Luckily Tim Rose who fitted the EMC shocks had oxy acetylene in his garage and it only took just over an hour using a combination of extreme heat, penetrating oil and a gentle hand with some mole grips to work out each bolt!
The trick Tim showed me was understanding when the bolt shaft was twisting as opposed to the bolt moving slightly out of the socket. After that he re tapped the screw holes and used some decent bolts. The actual shock change and re-attachment of the exhaust, bodywork etc was pretty straightforward.
Also don't forget the gasket at the join.

Sounds as if Steve was lucky, I hope you have his luck otherwise its complete removal to sort out the sheared bit, depends on your bolts I suppose,

Henry

Yes I was lucky but in the end the luck ran out and one of the bolts sheered. So drilled out the threads and used S/S nuts and bolts with plenty of copperslip.

Steve

Yeah, these little M6 bolts are a real liability. You need to replace with stailness and lube with copperslip. If I undo the 4 M6 bolts I understand that the rear part of the exhaust system should drop a little enabling me to get to the lower bolt of the rear shocker. I take it there is no possibility of anything else breaking off at the end cans ? I've got to get cracking with this soon as the bike has done over 44K on the standard front and back shockers. It would be interesting to know what mileages others on the site got from the standard units before changing. I'm a tight sod so I've just kept going even though the units are well past their best.

You might be lucky doing that but we weren't hence complete removal. All 4 bolts sheared, they had been in place for about three years.

scotty wrote:It would be interesting to know what mileages others on the site got from the standard units before changing. .

Front (original) 60k miles
Rear burst a seal at 20k miles and was replacd with oem (so 40k miles approx.....)
Nigel B

Tripe

Do you mean that when the 4 M6 bolts are removed the rear part of the exhaust still does not move ? It only has to move a little bit to get the lower shock bolt out. I don't want to start doing this job until I am sure I can get the rear shock out without dismantling the entire rear section of exhaust.