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Message started by Dan Stafford on 11/27/21 at 05:14:50

Title: Rubber dampeners
Post by Dan Stafford on 11/27/21 at 05:14:50

good morning gang,
As my bike has evolved, my rear pulley has axial play of an eighth of an inch or more. I have replace the stock bearings, but I have not replace the rubber dampeners. Could this cause pulley wobble?

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by ohiomoto on 11/27/21 at 05:32:57

That's pretty normal for these bikes. You can either ignore it or do a mod to tighten it up.

DragBikeMike did a double bearing mod that works well and seems to be the current "gold standard", but there are a couple of others.

It shouldn't be too hard to search up.

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Dan Stafford on 11/27/21 at 05:36:01

I appreciate it, it’s just starting to make my belt squeak a little bit and it’s annoying

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Dan Stafford on 11/27/21 at 05:36:42

I’ll have to check the axle nuts again for torque value, I think it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 pounds

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Dan Stafford on 11/27/21 at 05:40:47

https://youtube.com/shorts/rUBlfIAhe7o?feature=share

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Dan Stafford on 11/27/21 at 05:41:36

That’s the YouTube link I made real quick let me know if it works

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by verslagen1 on 11/27/21 at 07:59:45

122E2322332223342F2829460 wrote:

I’ll have to check the axle nuts again for torque value, I think it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 pounds

ITEM N-m | ft-lb
Rear
axle nut 55.0 88.0 | 40.5 64.9

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by DragBikeMike on 11/27/21 at 13:07:16

Dan, all I get from your vid link is audio. What are you trying to show us? Did you replace the bearing in your pulley hub?

This link for the duplex bearing mod should help. It's easy to do. You will need the bearing and will also have to have your spacer machined as shown. Armen does the spacers.

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1561964431

This link provides some good info on pulley alignment. It starts at reply #56.

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1563129686

Good luck, Mike

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Hiko on 11/27/21 at 13:30:05

I managed to see the video
Dan your pulley wobble is bad You will never get your belt running right with that amount of wobble
Drag bike Mikes advice is where you shoud be looking to fix this

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Armen on 11/29/21 at 20:08:47

I have one of the spacers in stock. If you want it, I can send it. Just send me yours when you swap them out. Really simply job. DBM figured out a brilliant, effective, cheap, and easy fix to this common problem.
LMK
thanks
Armen

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Dan Stafford on 12/01/21 at 00:25:27

Armen,
That would be AWESOME!!!

Title: Re: Rubber dampeners
Post by Armen on 12/01/21 at 00:41:22

PM sent!