rear brakes

[Justin B.]

A lot of folks will tap it for a "pipe thread" (or slightly larger straight thread) and put in a brass plug like the PO did on my LS project:

[montmil]

Please, Justin! Cover those wheels as there may be young children about. Oh, the horror...
Monte

[Justin B.]

You are more than welcome to come over and make them a bit more presentable.

[Landlubber]

Hi John,

I work in China, try doing all that and not being able to understand the language and you will understand why I rarely smile these days.

Go buy yourself a thread gauge, very cheap, and easy to use. They little arms fold out and there are about 20 different threads sizes with every gauge.

I can send you one from Brisbane when I get home in a few weeks if need be of course, but Repco or Supercheap will have them.

Read the plug and then do the helicoil trick, there are many alternatives to helicoils too now, so try one of the marine dealers locally, they will have the stainless steel kits in hand.

[Darwin_R65]

The advantage of doing somehting yourself on the bike, is It's cheaper, I can guarantee what work has and hasn't been done, and I can usually guarantee it was done corectly.

The disdvantage is that sometimes it takes me forever to finish.

I have finally got my bike back on the road, after deciding on 22 Mar to fix my brake problem, and rear drive unit spline.

Brakes I just replaced the shoes.
Spline, I mortgaged my first born child. $310 for the spline, $220 to get it welded onto the crown wheel.$123 for the bearing.
Labour chewed up quite a few wife brownie points in "I know you need help with the kids but i need the bike back on the road" Fortunately last night (And we have two extra kids this weekend, we're doing respite) the kids were all tired and went to bed early and i had a couple of hours to do the job.

Went for a ride and it was sweeeeet   to be back on the road again, however my battery was flat and I had to jumpstart the bike.

Ahhhh to me mobile again.

Thanks to every one who helped with technical advice on this one.

John

[Yikes]

Cheers to another  successful fix and a happy ending! [smiley=beerchug.gif]

P.S.  This thread, especially the photos, was of great help to me replacing the seals on my cam, stopping the gear oil leak that was soaking my brake shoes and giving me functioning rear brakes again.