And I have four. Of course I know lots of Goldwing owners, one guy from this board rides one to Norton meetings I understand. I won't make any cracks about actually running.

Coco,

Good news, bad news.

The good...deburred slits in eccentric sleeves and slits in brace to allow rotation without snagging. Put a static crank balancing box (steel box w/ knife edges +/-6" apart) across the fork legs and it rocked. Bumped trees around until the tubes were parallel according to the box. Locked the tubes/trees down there. Installed the rubber boots, brace, seal holders w/ eccentrics, top hat and steel busings on from bottom and installed snap ring. Hosed it all down with WD40. Installed sliders on to bushings and made up seal holders tight. Held brace up out of the way. Everything slide freely...independently. Installed brace on seal holders. Slide assembly to top of travel. Rotated slider until they were each in there loosest position and noted eccentric sleeve slit oreination relative to the fork tube (sharpy). Rotated sliders to normal position and installed axle. Turn eccentric slits back to noted oreintation. Tighten pinch bolts on brace. Travels slick as a gut and falls under its own weight. I'll check it again when the wheel is installed and again, with cartridges installed w/o springs. I like it. I'm going to wait until everything has checked out before I install the rubber boot on top of the eccentric sleeves as it looks like something I only want to do one time. PS...used your seals (thanks). I had "Seals that last...w/ moly" but they are not canned seals and would have required a back-up washer and a means to hold it all in (snap ring groove).

The bad news...I'm back to gazing out the window, waiting on parts.


Horton...in my last shop (basement), I had to roll five bikes out to work on one. Many times I would go down to work on one and look at all involved in doing so and would turn around and go back upstairs. I had painted myself into a corner with motorcycles and related junk.


Cookie...I, also, ride a late generation Goldwing and love it. It is fast and I run it hard. Its a crotch-rocket on steroids to me. I'm lucky to get 5K out of a set of tires. I just missed an opportunity to pick-up a low-mileage '06 that went under water for a few minutes (local lake dam broke and washed the guy off the road in his neighborhood...water subsided quickly, insurance totalled it, lost contact with the guy). At any rate, I wanted to strip it and make a cafe bike out of it. Sorry I missed that one. I could have really made a spectacle out of myself on that one.

Z

Awesome! Glad it worked. The old "parts waiting polka". Doing that right now for two rubber headlight grommets. It wouldn't be so bad if I was waiting for something cool but alas........just two rubber grommets.

I never did the WD40 thing, I just used some grease lightly applied to the seal retainers and inside of eccentrics. I bet I could have gotten it to fit eventually but I'm too damn impatient! I never thought of lightly deburring the eccentric slits either. It probably would have made life a bit easier. No problem about the seals. I figured it would be best to just leave them be instead of damaging them trying to pry them out.

Cookie wrote:Nortons look a lot better all apart. Goldwings look like trucks in comparison. Did you ever know anybody who bought a wing for the looks?

And please don't mention the "Rune", that was one fugly two wheeler

Jean

Coco wrote:Awesome! Glad it worked. The old "parts waiting polka". Doing that right now for two rubber headlight grommets. It wouldn't be so bad if I was waiting for something cool but alas........just two rubber grommets.

I never did the WD40 thing, I just used some grease lightly applied to the seal retainers and inside of eccentrics. I bet I could have gotten it to fit eventually but I'm too damn impatient! I never thought of lightly deburring the eccentric slits either. It probably would have made life a bit easier. No problem about the seals. I figured it would be best to just leave them be instead of damaging them trying to pry them out.

Check out Canadian Tire for the grommets, I found something that worked well, it was a grommet for a PCV valve, nice rubber and cheap, just the way I like it (cheap)

Jean

I'm convinced the Rune is evidence that Martians have visited earth.