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- From: essbaum@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Alexander Essbaum)
- Subject: Re: Breaking an endless chain
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.220650.15078@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:06:50 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan19.222344.8828@ms.uky.edu> <1993Jan21.195720.10152@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan21.195720.10152@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>, tgent@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Tom Gent) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan19.222344.8828@ms.uky.edu> amir@ms.uky.edu (Amir Sadr) writes:
- |> >Have any of you ever broken an endless chain (O-ring) and put it back together
- |> >via a link? If so, please share your experience (e-mail if you prefer).
- |> >Are there any disadvantages to doing this? It appears that I will have to
- |> >break the OEM (#530 O-ring) chain on my 87 CBR1000 in order to install
- |> >the JMC braced swing arm which I finally received. As always, many
- |> >thanks in advance for your help.
- |> >
- |>
- |> I thought removing the swing arm is exactly how you replace an endless chain
- |> without breaking it. Am I missing something?
- |>
- |> Tom Gent
- |>
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- this won't work on any bike with a gusseted (gussetted?) / braced swingarm.
- on my bike the chain passes over the swingarm pivot (over the the main
- arms of the swingarm) but under the smaller braces/tubes that reinforce
- the main arms.
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