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need help with rear wheel!
03/08/12 at 14:54:18

Hey guys im young and new to motorcycles and i just recently bought a 1998 suzuki ls650...well the guy had all of the bike covered when he stored it except the rear and front wheels...so im pulling the take and both fenders off to repaint but i haven't figured out how to pull the rear wheel off? can someone please help me out and fully explain to me how to go about removing the rear wheel. Thanks Grin

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greenmonster Senior Member Offline Hellooooo Nurse! Posts: 420 Vancouver BC Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #1 - 03/08/12 at 15:00:22 basics: Jack up the back end. Take off the belt. Undo the brake. Pull out the axle. Welcome to the forum. This bike is a great one to learn some wrenching skills on. You'll probably want to get yourself a Clymer, it's a godsend.
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greenmonster Senior Member Offline Hellooooo Nurse! Posts: 420 Vancouver BC Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #2 - 03/08/12 at 15:04:39 http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1181745927 Under Rear Suspension and Brakes there are a couple good threads that should answer most of your questions. You'll probably want to bookmark that thread as well since it's a gathering of a lot of knowledge.
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tmaxx YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #3 - 03/08/12 at 15:05:06 ill give it a swing! Thanks alot
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28890 L.A. California Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #4 - 03/08/12 at 15:19:24 don't need to take wheel off to get off fender. take off rails take off left shock and belt guard you can take the right shock off too if you need more room. just need to lift rear with jack.
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EJID Serious Thumper Offline Work to ride and ride to work. Posts: 1536 Pocatello, ID Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #5 - 03/08/12 at 15:23:25 verslagen1 wrote on 03/08/12 at 15:19:24: don't need to take wheel off to get off fender. take off rails take off left shock and belt guard you can take the right shock off too if you need more room. just need to lift rear with jack. +1 I didn't take my rear wheel off when I pulled the rear fender
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #6 - 03/08/12 at 16:39:55 I just took off my rear wheel to day to get a new tire on it,What a pain it was,The axle bolt hits the stock muffler you have to that off both shocks and do a lot a twisting around and a lot of parts off,I've had about 15 motorcycles and this is by far the hardest to do anything with.
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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12673 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #7 - 03/08/12 at 18:55:33 Bill, it helps to install the axle from the left side of the bike, it makes that muffler problem go away from now on.
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BrettKeiselsbeard Full Member Offline 2007 S-40, 2003 GZ250 Posts: 146 Sebastian Fl Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #8 - 03/08/12 at 19:01:12 there is a great thread in the tech section on how to make a cheap lift. I imagine money is not in abundance. Making the lift makes life much easier. As to removing the wheel, you have had advice. Putting it back, take your time and make sure everything lines up. Its that simple.
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tmaxx YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #9 - 03/08/12 at 19:56:49 i didn't have to pull the belt cover or shocks, and the wheel came off really easy no binding up or anything and i cleaned it all up and put it back together to keep things straight while i paint my fenders
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #10 - 03/09/12 at 03:19:00 Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 03/08/12 at 18:55:33: Bill, it helps to install the axle from the left side of the bike, it makes that muffler problem go away from now on. Thanks OF thats a good idea.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #11 - 03/09/12 at 07:48:26 Tell me you didnt put it back in the hard way, Bill,, please.
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greenmonster Senior Member Offline Hellooooo Nurse! Posts: 420 Vancouver BC Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #12 - 03/09/12 at 08:15:02 Stock muffler was the first thing to go on Nessy so I can't say if it would have been in the way.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: need help with rear wheel! Reply #13 - 03/09/12 at 08:50:42 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 03/09/12 at 07:48:26: Tell me you didnt put it back in the hard way, Bill,, please. I didn't put it back on yet,Having the dealer do the tires,I sure don't want to take it off again right a way again.
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Re: need help with rear wheel!
Reply #14 - 03/10/12 at 16:35:11

Did I hear that right,....you havin a dealer do what again ?

Replacing the tire was the easy part for me, but when I went to put all the spacers back in,.....after they rolled all over the place when I pulled the axle out, it all came to a halt ! I had 2 beers and it didn't help one bit. But Savage.com came to the rescue,......some nice guy here posted the illistration of the rear assy. And all that after I "knew" that you have to watch how it comes apart !

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