• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Preload adjustment wrench?

krussell

krussell

Strada Adventurer
What's everyone using for adjusting preload? I don't have anything lying around, most of my other bikes have had a knob or been electric.
 
I managed to pick up an adjustment tool from a dealership, mainly deals with d/s and dirt bikes. Came out of a draw outback some where, only charged me $8 fit's perfect with an extension bar that slides on. Makes life easier, than a hammer and drift approach. I'd try some place like that. Lotta' dirt bikes used to come with adjuster tools. Otherwise talk to google maybe.
 
Do you know anyone that has a jap street bike? If so, they should have one, as pretty much all jap street bikes come with a basic tool set, including the adjustment tool for shocks. As to whether or not they're a standard size I have no idea, but worth a try.
 
krussell said:
What's everyone using for adjusting preload? I don't have anything lying around, most of my other bikes have had a knob or been electric.
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My manual says, "Adjust the ring nut (1) using the spanner provided;" Provided? lol! If it's on the bike, I haven't found it.
 
I picked up my bike on Saturday and it came with a small tool kit that contains a spanner wrench. Granted it is p.o.s. quality, but it does have the wrench.
 
I don't think I got a tool kit, either! We have about 6 spanner wrenches in the garage and one of them fit sufficiently enough to get the job done.
 
I don't think I got a tool kit, either! We have about 6 spanner wrenches in the garage and one of them fit sufficiently enough to get the job done.
 
I picked up and adjusting tool from Racetech. It looks like a big honkin' flat blade screwdriver with a bent tip and a heavy metal handle. You just put the tip in the adjusting collar notch and give the handle a whack with a mallet and it spins the collar around nicely.
 
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