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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 169099" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>I have an idea to run past you chaps regarding the new steering heads. This comes about as several people have asked for them to be set up with taper roller bearing top and bottom. This meant making stainless steel top hat bushes for both top and bottom bearings to compensate for the Internal diameter of the bearings which are larger than the outer diameter of the steering column. It also meant taking the head lug off the oil tank and machining both the top and the bottom to take the outer diameter of the taper rollers. The chap who did the machining for me also obtained the bearings and assured me that getting them was a bit like obtaining rocking horse dung. However I discovered a few month ago that these bearings are actually now listed and are specifically for motorcycle head bearings. I have spoken to the firm which machined the new stems and it would be a trivial and zero cost option to machine a batch with a slightly increased diameter to take the new bearings. That would get rid of the top hat bushes but the washer FF36 would still be needed. The new lower motion blocks would be unchanged as would everything else. It would still be necessary to machine the inside top and bottom of the head lugs which means taking those off the oil tanks. I have refrained from putting this on the forum before as I have plenty of other things going on at the moment but this seems a good opportunity. I realise that this will only appeal to a limited number but if you have a head lug which has been damaged or has loose bearings then this would be a solution and a way of getting rid of all those loose ball bearings which head for the workshop floor when released.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 169099, member: 456"] I have an idea to run past you chaps regarding the new steering heads. This comes about as several people have asked for them to be set up with taper roller bearing top and bottom. This meant making stainless steel top hat bushes for both top and bottom bearings to compensate for the Internal diameter of the bearings which are larger than the outer diameter of the steering column. It also meant taking the head lug off the oil tank and machining both the top and the bottom to take the outer diameter of the taper rollers. The chap who did the machining for me also obtained the bearings and assured me that getting them was a bit like obtaining rocking horse dung. However I discovered a few month ago that these bearings are actually now listed and are specifically for motorcycle head bearings. I have spoken to the firm which machined the new stems and it would be a trivial and zero cost option to machine a batch with a slightly increased diameter to take the new bearings. That would get rid of the top hat bushes but the washer FF36 would still be needed. The new lower motion blocks would be unchanged as would everything else. It would still be necessary to machine the inside top and bottom of the head lugs which means taking those off the oil tanks. I have refrained from putting this on the forum before as I have plenty of other things going on at the moment but this seems a good opportunity. I realise that this will only appeal to a limited number but if you have a head lug which has been damaged or has loose bearings then this would be a solution and a way of getting rid of all those loose ball bearings which head for the workshop floor when released. [/QUOTE]
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