I'm planning on removing the front end from my bike to replace the steering bearings but am unsure about the safest way to support the front end of the bike while I make the change?
Any advice would be appreciated.
The bike is a ZXR750 L model.
Gosling1 wrote:I normally hang the bike from the trusses in the workshop. Race stand at rear - use a couple of good ratchet straps, secured around a frame rail on either side somewhere close behind the steering head. You want the other end of the ratchet straps to loop around the roof truss around 30deg angle from each side - not straight up.
Loosen the major bolts first - triple clamp, axle pinch bolts, caliper bolts etc. You don't want to be loosening bolts with the front end hanging
Once all the prep on the bolts is done - just gradually tension up the ratchet straps equally - a couple of clicks at a time. You want the front wheel at least 50mm off the floor, so you can drop the wheel out easily. Calipers will have to be removed as well.
If you don't have any roof trusses to hang your bike off - it will have to be the trolley-jack/ car stand method that Bonester described. Don't wail on any bolts to loosen them using this method, you can pull the bike clear off the stands.
To get the bike back on the ground once the front wheel is back in place (using the hang method) - just release both ratchet-straps at the same time. They will have a bit of tension on them so they will pop pretty loudly - but its all good. Whatever you do don't release one side first - the bike will hang off the other can could fall over. Both at the same time
Gosling1 wrote:yeh good call on the engine hoist Yoda - I have been lucky over the years and always had a workshop with exposed steel roof trusses - it does make changing a front end/bearing replacement/fork services - really easy
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