Guest SoCal Nick Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Does anyone have access to a micro fiche with part #'s? I'll try to explain what I need without butchering the explaination. I need to replace a rubber bushing that is in the end of the tie bar that holds the housing on the rear drive on the rear wheel. Make sense? The tie bar that I refer to is the one that runs parrallel to the drive shaft. I want the part # so I don't just get blown off by a dealer. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Jaap Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Here are two pics from the manual. from what I understand from your story the part should be on one of these/ Let me know the drawing and the number pointing to ithe part and I'll let you know the part number. Drawing 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Jaap Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Drawing 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Minnaert Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I think there's no part nr for that, as it comes in the bar vulcanized. So you have to make your own solution, or buy a new bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfastguzzi Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 This sounds like the rubber bush that others recently posted about. SoCal Nick, would you mind reporting what mileage yours disintegrated at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Jaap Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 All this trouble for nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete roper Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Typical trick of most manufacturers. They won't sell you a bush or grommet separately, it comes as part of much larger and more expensive assembley. Good lord, not even Honda expect their customers to fall for that old chestnut! Take off your tie rod, take it to you local machine shop and explain the problem and leave it to them. Alternatively, you could buy a cheap set of verniers, clean out the rubbery munt from the eye of the rod and measure it and then go to a 'Wotta-lotta-crap' auto store and ask for a bushing with the same ID and OD as the original bit that was probably lovingly crafted out of the shite of the former, (If we can belive what Greg sez!) engineers who were responsible for the recen't wonders of the single plate clutch, the hydraulic lifters and the six speed selector dogs made out of play-dough!!!! It's a rubber bushing for God's sakes! My rubber chicken collection is more sophisticated, and that doesn't include the one with the nozzle for KY jelly!!! Get a grip!!!! Or a Sinclair C5?????? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrt Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Easy Pete! Take your meds Nick, you probably should go the route of replacing it yourself. If the local 'wotta lotta crap' auto store doesn't carry exactly what you want, then look at mcmaster carr. They'll have it in five different rubber materials and 3 colors They rock. When I first read the post headline, the old Captain Beefheart tune popped into my head...hard, dark, hard rubber wheels.... Cheers, Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docc Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I recently visited Andy York in Nashville. He had a set of bushes made up out of some techy polymer stuff. I think he's still in the testing stage to be sure how they'll act over some miles. Look here: reaction rod Because the stock bush is set in inner and outer metal shells the bush is captured when mounted, the rod becomes a torsion bar which must affect the free movement of the suspension. It certainly looks to me that allowing the thing to rotate in the rod would give unrestricted travel to the suspension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SoCal Nick Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Yep, mine sounds like the problem on the reaction rod thead. Thanks for pointing it out docc. I have 10k miles on the bike, but it was like that when I bought it so could have happend any time. I don't have a great deal of play in it so I'll just start looking for solutions now. I'm thinking a delrin bushing with a brass sleeve would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzi323 Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 I had mine replaced under waranty. Both bushings were pretty well shot. If I recall the dealer said the replacement rod was something like $175 USD. If/when they go out again I'm going to have somebody machine some new ones out of delrin. Those ought to outlast the bike. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MArkS Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Yep, mine sounds like the problem on the reaction rod thead. Thanks for pointing it out docc. I have 10k miles on the bike, but it was like that when I bought it so could have happend any time. I don't have a great deal of play in it so I'll just start looking for solutions now. I'm thinking a delrin bushing with a brass sleeve would work. The guy I bought my bike from had pressed Delrin bushings into the reaction rod. At the time I blamed it for the bike's "herky-jerky" (words of local MG dealer who owns a V11) driveline action. I got one used from Reboot Guzzi Spares & have the other hanging in my shed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdude Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Easy Pete! Take your meds Nick, you probably should go the route of replacing it yourself. If the local 'wotta lotta crap' auto store doesn't carry exactly what you want, then look at mcmaster carr. They'll have it in five different rubber materials and 3 colors They rock. When I first read the post headline, the old Captain Beefheart tune popped into my head...hard, dark, hard rubber wheels.... Cheers, Jason also try Black Francis with Tight Black Rubber, thats a tight sturdy bushing tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mznyc Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Is the part we're speaking of in one of the diagrams? Which #?,if it is.Would just like to be enlightened if I had this problem down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twhitaker Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 They're talking about the eyes inside either end of item # 1. If mine came apart on the road I would probably continue to ride it. If it got intolerable I would wrap the inner sleeve with enough electrical tape to make it fit the hole. Voila! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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