Anybody lose their Swing Arm End Caps?

Henry Bowman · Apr 10, 2024

thank you sir!

Tornado · Apr 10, 2024

Heres an interesting SA cap mod:

From an AD in the forsale forum..

May have to report this to our Mounties, defacing the Kings currency is a crime i believe....

Mart UK · Apr 10, 2024

Wonder what that end cap cost?

concours · Apr 10, 2024

Mart UK said:
Wonder what that end cap cost?

One large bird.

Tornado · Apr 10, 2024

'tis a silver dollar...1968, well before we moved to the Loonie and Dub-loonie.

kerinorton · Apr 10, 2024

baz said:
Like many others I converted the cradle tube swinging arm locating bolt to a quill
With a rubber tube connected and a small resivoir for the oil under the seat
My lack of maintenance and riding on salted roads had rusted the pin previously
Now all I have to do is open the seat and top up when I think of it

I did the same thing to both my commandos. 30 ml bottle filled with 90 oil. It does leak out over about a year, but you cant expect those o rings to hold oil they way the bikes designed. Nothing simpler.

MichaelD · Apr 11, 2024

Tornado said:
'tis a silver dollar...1968, well before we moved to the Lonnie and Dub-loonie.

I like that, did they do it in a 1970 for my early Commando?

Tornado · Apr 11, 2024

MichaelD said:
I like that, did they do it in a 1970 for my early Commando?

It is the non-mk3 type SA here... same as my '74 mk2 has...was there another type on the 1970 bikes?

Tornado · Apr 11, 2024

kerinorton said:
I did the same thing to both my commandos. 30 ml bottle filled with 90 oil. It does leak out over about a year, but you cant expect those o rings to hold oil they way the bikes designed. Nothing simpler.

Yes, the design never seemed like it was meant to prevent oil loss, just slow down some. Seems all that is needed is some oil penetration into the oillite bushings once a season to be good to go.

MichaelD · Apr 12, 2024

Tornado said:
It is the non-mk3 type SA here... same as my '74 mk2 has...was there another type on the 1970 bikes?

Its the same on the 1970 bike, just thinking that the coin shown above was a 1968, if I was to do the same I'd want a 1970

BrianK · Apr 17, 2024

concours said:
Very special 140W natural gear lube, only extracted from blonde haired, blue eyed frauleins located only in the Black Forest region of the Fatherland

On a British bike? I think NICHT!

concours · Apr 17, 2024

BrianK said:
On a British bike? I think NICHT!

Well, then, where?

BrianK · Apr 22, 2024

Send the frauleins to me, I will deal with them....

Anybody lose their Swing Arm End Caps?

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