Sorting the Fourfiddy

Finding myself out of work, I now have time to sort the bikes and mabe ride them a bit. A few months ago the rear sprocket came loose on the Fourfiddy while hacking down the farm with my mates. The chain junped off, snaked up and jammed, breaking the rear hub on the process.

Not nice

She was laying down a pool of oil on the garage floor - I feared the worst: cracked engine case.

After half an hour of prying, pulling, tugging and general man-handling I managed to get the chain loose without having to take off the swing-arm. Slowly, slowly catch the monkey...

There was very little damage... mullered chain guides, twisted chain and the oil leak was from the shaft seal.

A five second search on my fav off-road forum ThumperTalk turned up this link:

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-803907.html

Basically... just give it a good ol' clean...

 Strip and clean!

There was a lot of crud in there... all shiny again!

Twenty quids worth of parts on next day delivery from the uber-helpful guys at Redline Motorcycles

Puncture fixed and spare wheel fitted. All back together and ready for a test down the field later today...

I straightened the chain using the workbench vise and a pair of water-pump pliers. The Wee Monsters chain is also twisted after the chain-shed at Mallory Park... if the vise and pliers work on the KTM, the Wee Monster will get the same treatment.