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Kalali
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 08:15 am: | 
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Unless we are talking about a different washer, there is no need to drop the bolt. You can see the washer with the bike resting on the side stand and handle bars all the way to the left. Mine looked perfectly flat. I have no data to support this but I think it would require a significant amount of radial/pull load from the bottom to "suck in" that washer even with the smaller bolt inside a slightly larger hole. If it were mine, I would chalk it up to either a defective/wrong washer or improper setting of my torque wrench. |
Dannybuell
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 09:47 am: |
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You have the wrong isolator, Buellistic nailed it. This happened to me on myS1 a few years back, the dealer gave me the wrong part. don't ride with that setup. I had used a slice of metal fuel line as my bushing. the thing was only on for a short while, 10 days later American Sport Bike had the right part in my hands! the two or three hours riding was killing the bushing very quickly. |
Blackm2
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 11:59 am: |
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Riiight. I forgot Al & Joanne have a secret stash of the old isolators. I guess all those who installed the updated, new one: http://americansportbike.com/newdir/Item/17025-B
we've got it all wrong!! |
Dannybuell
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 12:42 pm: |
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BlackM2 what? |
Lakes
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 01:54 pm: |
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I sometimes drag race my M2, & I do a lot of riding on it all year round I bought one of those new front issolators. Everything looked better but that smaller bolt the motor hangs from. Bulistic said machine it out use the original size & grade bolt. I did & also used a Stenzel bar as well I have not had an issue.
The design of the motor makes it like a giant impact hammer. The design of the issolators means that one bolt is all that the front of the motor hangs off, the Stenzel bar just stops it moving forward & backward. Does not hold the motor up.
I have since done 30k kilometers on it, that's about 20k miles.
What's the most you have traveled on rough bumpy roads at speeds with the small OD bolt & what speed's I do up to 120mph in speed traps at drags & 70mph on rough roads. |
Kalali
| | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 08:28 am: |
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I've hit a few small potholes here and there but generally try to avoid rough roads. You're correct in that the engine could act as a giant impact hammer if the bike is used off road. I'm still not convinced you could suck in that washer under normal load. |
Steveford
| | Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2014 - 06:40 pm: |
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One of my buddies sent me a steel bushing which arrived today and it did the trick.
I can finally ride my S2 without my right hand going to sleep from the vibration.
If anyone is interested, ID .433, OD .5, length .85".
This seems to work better, vibration wise, than a previous isolator that I'd reamed out to .5" for the stock bolt.
Way too late to post a picture of that washer but it was an oblong circle and the center was pulled down a bit. That stupid bolt had to be pressed out with a block of wood up against the frame.
I knew I should have had a bushing made up right off of the bat but I was too impatient to just ride the thing so I got to do it twice!
(Message edited by SteveFord on October 09, 2014) |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014 - 12:15 pm: |
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Would you mind posting a picture of the newly installed isolator? |
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