Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:31:01 +0200
- Message No. 6384
From: Schneider_Partner@t-online.de (Jochen Kindermann)
Subject: chain
Hey all,
I had to change my chain and I did this last weekend. After I bought an
DID-chain I loaded the short description how to do it out this forum. The
description said that it takes abou 1 hour. Okay, I thought, may it take two
hours, doesn´t matter. Tha´s how I startet.
Taking out the rear wheel was no problem (it was my first time on my RD07
that I own for about 4 month/driven already 10.000km this time).
Even opening the screws fot the swing was easy.
Then my first problem arose: Opening this little plastic in front of the
front cog wheel (Zahnrad?). There are two small screws and I saw that
someone before me tried to open the upper one. He nearly drove it round
(rundgedreht?) so that it I immidiatly saw a difficulty: Trying to open it
with different tools was impossible. Additionally my left shock bar is fixed
at the next bigger screw next to this small one so that it was not possible
to put the tool right on it.
Okay, I had to unscrew the shock bar. While doing this a small welded screw
(angeschweißte Schraube) fell off and I knew that this was my next problem.
This part is welded to the frame and holds the left shock bar in front of
the cooler. I remembered that my dealer told me he had to weld this thing
again last time. When I saw the welding point (Schweißpunkt) I was sure that
this must have been his first time using the welding apparatus. Very bad
work !
After dismounting the shock bar I still couldn´t loosen the screw. After
trying everything I dicided to drill a little whole into the screw. I broke
thereby my smallest drill but it helped - the screw went out.
Ok, this were the first two hours (I shorten my story a little, during this
time some more little things happened, like my son lost some tools in our
garden, I lost one tools a longer time ago and first had to buy a new one
....)
This shi... plastic thing was nearly off - but what was this - two screws
hold this plastic thing and the other one is nearly on the ground of the
ground tub ( BODENWANNE). I tried to loosen the screw and it fell down
somewhere in the dark of the ground tub. - lets´s take off this part.
After I opened this plastic cab I thought that no one of the earlier owners
of this @ ever cleaned this part. It was dirty, filthy and the stuff in
there was a mixture of oil, fat, dirt something like tar (teer). One hour
later the place was a little cleaner, my fingers could not be recognized and
the patrol of my lawn-mower (Rasenmäher) was empty.
My wife asked if I´m ready because we wanted to do some shopping. I answered
something that I better do not repeat and the mood (Stimmung) went to its
ground.
But the rest was really simple: mounting the chain, the shock bar, the
ground tub, the rear wheel and I was read - and the day nearly over.
So far changing the chain in one hour.
I really asked myself what happens, when I will drive to maroc or lybia next
year and something like this small repair already takes one day. Ok, in the
desert I had destroyed this plastic thing and bought an new one back here.
But a new @ has sometimes advantages. Mine has already driven 45.000.
Kindermann
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