Mastiff

Worked like a charm! Thank you very much!

Thanks! Yeah, perfectly sense! So much sense, actually that I've already tried the hacksaw (only the blade, no handle), but without luck. But I think that vice version is probably the best bet I have. I only have to find a socket that's of the right size. Which shouldn't be impossible in my overstocked garage. Especially overstocked now, that I've sold my Chevy Suburb an two years ago and the Renault three years ago, so I don't have something to fix every bloody weekend!

Thanks, but I've tried all that's possible without knowing what I'm doing. So I think I need advice from somebody who's actually done this before.

The old one was shot, but I can't even get that out of the footpeg mount! I have attached a photo, so you know what I mean. Is there a special tool, a special trick or something like that?

And the deed is done. Bearings in place, and they worked out very nicely. The old cups (racers?) for the ball bearings can be used as spacers for the headlight fittings. So now my son's going to do the rest of the work, and he'll be back on the road. Which is in good time because the end of the coming week is the first time this year that it has been forecasted consistently over 0 all day and all night. Norway's had a rather cold and long winter this year... My southern part of the country usually has +10 degrees C most of March and 15 in April!

He-he! How fast a technical thread goes comical... But thanks! I think I have some O-rings at home. If not we'll deal with that later.

That does sound smart, yeah. Thanks! There was so much in that thread that I didn't see that little gem.

He-he, well, I hope these are the correct correct parts, then! His were obviously the wrong correct parts... And I hope it will be apparent to my son how they fit! This one he has do do himself, so it's going to be interesting. No daddy saftey net this time...

Oh, man... that joke really hurts! Well, I checked out that thread, and it's not the same bike, so I hope these fits here. Caroline at Yambits seemed very certain, and she's been right on previous parts for the things, so I'm hoping it will work out. Thanks for the tool tip! The rubber are meant as grease seals at the bottom and at the top, then?

My son's home and I'm away for a month, and he doesn't understand how to replace the original ball bearings on the 125 DX with the taper head bearing kit he got from Yambits. (Fast shipping and great service as usual, btw!). I suspect that he has to remove the part of the head itself where the balls were, but am I wrong? He says it seems to be a part ofthe head itself, but they can be knocked out, right? Is there a tutorial somewhere that he can follow? Also he says that the kit came with some rubber bushings. Where are they supposed to go? Are they a part of what's going to be punched into the steering head?

Thanks! I do believe I have found one: http://yambits.co.uk/rd125-taper-head-bearing-kit-p-3671.html It says: That would be the DX, right? I'm going to mail them tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure that would fit.

Thanks, that's what I thought. Still, would it be better to change to new taper bearings?

My son has a problem with his balls. Not hereditary, I know very well how many balls I have and need! Now I have not looked at his because I'm not at home right now, but according to the RD125B_RD200B repair manual, which I have, there should be 19 balls both in the upper and lower bearing of the stearing head. He says he can't understand that because it doesn't look like more than 18 will fit each. The problem is that he has split two heads at the same time, one parts bike and his own bike, and he may have mixed up the balls. Sounds rather uncomfortable to me, to continue the (bad) jokes. But he thinks he has 37 balls from his own bike, and they should be OK. Then he may have dropped one on the floor and can't find it, so it may have been 38 originally. But is it possible that there are 18 balls in one bearing and 19 in the other? And which one is what? Or would it be smarter to buy replacement taper bearings?

Thanks! Sounds just about what I remember from 30 years ago on my moped. I just wanted to check.

I'm talking about the weird looking thing that doesn't even look like a nut and keeps my loose balls in place (couldn't resist that one...). It's kind of hard to use a torque wrench since I don't have anything that resembles the pattern on the nut. So how do you guys do that?