Spline wear question ...

[moosehead]

[quote="StephenB"]Bob, what's the queue time these days?

Well, farming season hasn't started yet...don't think there are too many bears to be shot and...I think the horses are in the stable...so...I think is quicker during the winter but, who know with Bruno..

I dropped my FD into his place on way to Sault Ste. Marie...must have caught him at a good time (Aug) cause I had it back in a week!

[bbelk]

If I have not got more than 10,000mls remaining should I consider it preventive maintenance and do it now?

The splines on my R90/6 have looked worse than this for the last 30K miles. I can feel more driveline slop than on my R65, but other than that it works fine.

It seems to me that the wheel and the hub should be fixed at the same time. Is this correct?

Has anyone ridden these splines to failuer? What happens? Can you get home with a road fix, something like wrapping the hub with aluminm foil or shoving oak wedges in or something like that?

[Garnet]

Can you get home with a road fix, something like wrapping the hub with aluminm foil or shoving oak wedges in or something like that?

Good question. Never seen it done.

You would want to be carefull jamming something in there. You need a tiny bit of play between the splines so that you are not overly preloading the crown bearing. It would be OK for a short trip home, but not for hundreds of miles.

[Woodgrain]

Stephen,if you should need machine work done on this side of the 49th, an alternative to Bruno here in Canada is Yves Faucher near Montreal. I had him do a pair of R75 heads and the final drive on my '83 RS. Excellent workmanship.He came highly recommended by the late David Makin.

Woodgrain