 Re: Me and the china bikes...
I decided to actually tighten the motor mounts since I wrote that I would do small routine maintenance. Well I took the bike to a shade tree to work on it. I finally got a good look at my motor mount that never seemed to stay tight. There were just two things wrong with it. The nut was stripped and the stud was working its way out.
Of course I was in a quandary for a couple of minute then I remember how my dad used to do it on his lawn mowers. I went to lows and bought a pack of nuts m6 by the way. I got the ones with the locking device on the rear.
As my dad had done before me I ran two nuts onto the bolt. tightened them on each other in effect making the stud a bolt with the 2 locked nuts as the head. I simply turned on the outside nut and it pressed against he inside nut and that wouldn't move so the stud tightened in the motor. I stopped when it felt like it had bottomed out. I don't know if it did or not but I didn't want to break anything.
since I had to buy four of the locking nuts I ran one down on each of the other nuts to help prevent them from backing out.
So yes I will do somethings just not tear into the engine. |