Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: RE: police side stand failure

Author: Ray Hale

Date: Feb 4, 2005, 4:47 AM

Post ID: 1718333060



Patrick,
makes perfect sense. I had thought someone was talking about welds
breaking. Thanks for the great description. So...lock-tite and the
occasionally "up on the lift real good inspection" routine. Can do.
Ray


Patrick Hayes wrote:
 


Ray Hale wrote:

 I remember a thread a while back concerning failure of the police side
stands. I never got a distinct idea of where that weak point was. Any
chance some of you (I seem to recall 3 or 4 people reporting the same

Ray: I've seen two. One was mine and I caught it going down. The other

was someone else's and there was no one there to catch it. :-(

The long stand lever has a short threaded pivot at the upper end at
right angles to the stand. The top of this threaded pivot end has its
shaft flattened on each side. There is a small tang that one attaches
to the upper end of the stand and this tang has a hole with flat sides
to engage the flats of the stand end. If the retaining nut is kept
tight, all is well. If the nut is allowed to run loose, the tang and
shaft work against each other and move and eventually round off the
corners of the shaft flats and enlarge the hole in the tang. Eventually

it can just spin around. When this happens, you lose engagement to the
frame and the stand is allowed to swing all the way forward toward the
front wheel and over you go. Don't have a loop for a pic and the EV
stand is all covered up by shields.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA



pax sine tedio
73 Eldo "19"

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