01 xc250 Angled crooked misaligned front wheel

[70455]

Front wheel is angled to left about 8 to 10 degrees. Upin disassembling during seak replacement, problem remains. Can the triples be twisted out of phase? Anyone experience this?

 

[70455]

Please pardon the spelling.... DROID keypad too small.

 

[Jakobi]

You can manage to tweak the forks in the triples slightly. Back off all the nuts and let everything center itself and then snug em up again. See if its improved.

 

[70455]

I tried loosening all triple clamp bolts while having the axle loosely attached with end bolt. I tried to twist the front wheel straight with no improvement . My next step is to loosen the upper triple clamp to steerer tube nut to attempt to ge both clamp centerlines colinear. This bike mustve taken a hard hit..

Twisted triple clamps is the last failure mode I can fathom.

Had difficulty getting fork tube into the upper triple clamp.

 

[70455]

Afew blows with HF orange colored dead blow hammer at the upper triple whilst twisting the bars and wheel in the correct direction yielded success!

Triples were misaligned!

 

[70455]

I could not get wheel perfect. Lower left triple looks like culprit as swapping legs keeps problem on left side.

Is there a strange upper then lower tightening technique? Do i need new lower triple? Will wp43 equipped ktm lower clamp work?

 

[70455]

Twisted lower triple?????? Gap on straight edge not symmetric.

 

[jostby]

not that many would agree but if it was mine I would slide the forks down (for leverage) and try to straighten it by pulling the left side forward while the clamps where snugged up. But that's just me and I don't have a lot of extra cash lying around. Would hate to damage the fork tubes though.

 

[pscook]

Slide out the tube, then remove the pinch bolts. If the bolt holes mis-align it's bent. The nice part is that it's alloy so you can tweak it into shape jostby as described above. Be careful. I would assume a KTM clamp would not fit, as they have different width and offset. You can pull the whole thing and take it to a machine shop and see if they can straighten it. Shouldn't be a tough job with the right tools for the job.

 

[70455]

Ill get a piece of masthead conduit to do the work and spare the leg from damage. It seems that the energy required to do this damage should've tacoed the wheel

 

[70455]

Picked up a used triple set from Gerald at upstate cycle. Problem fixed!

 

[Jakobi]

Good work mate! The joys of second hand dealings eh!