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Cali EV rear wheel removal

essexboydave

essexboydave

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Am I missing something here or is it normal to have to deflate the tyre to get the wheel out? Mine was fouling between the drive housing and the peg on the swingarm that locates the brake hanger, I've got the wheel out now but I'm thinking if I have to refit it with the tyre flat as I only have a footpump to use I may not get the tyre to inflate properly!
 
essexboydave said:
Am I missing something here or is it normal to have to deflate the tyre to get the wheel out? Mine was fouling between the drive housing and the peg on the swingarm that locates the brake hanger, I've got the wheel out now but I'm thinking if I have to refit it with the tyre flat as I only have a footpump to use I may not get the tyre to inflate properly!
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you can't do it on the center stand with out sticking something like a 4 X 4 under it to raise it. or have someone tilt the bike over to the right but make sure the C stand can't pop back.
I drive mine onto the front porch. it is 9" higher than the drive. then back the rear wheel to the edge and pop it onto the C stand. the rear tire then hangs off the back a bit and makes it all so easy.
 
If it is the year I think it is, you unscrew and remove the peg. I think it is a 6mm Allen to remove it. Oversize tires can be an issue. Also note the actual with of a tire size can vary by as much as 10 mm between manufactures. That is, a 130 from manufacturer A is actually 130mm, but a 130 from manufacturer B could be anywhere from 120 to 140mm.
 
Cheers John I was looking at that peg wondering if I could remove it, it does look suspiciously like it might have been welded in though! I have got round the problem of having to raise the bike to get the wheel past the fender-I now have a short fender and an easily removed licence plate! At some point it looks like the bike has been hit from behind and the rear section of the fender had been very roughly straightened but still looked a mess, having tried and failed to correct this and discovering along the way that the tail light had been broken into many pieces and bodged back together with scraps of beer can, pop rivets and glue I've opted for chopping the fender off short and fitting a different tail light assembly :)
 
Dave, what year is your EV? If it's been hit, all bets are off on things working properly. Most all Cali's had a removable brake caliper support bracket pin. Also, note the size and make of your tire.
 
It's a 99 model. It does seem to ride pretty well so I'm hoping the frame and swingarm are ok, the damage that I found was limited to the rear fender, the right hand pannier carrier which has bent upwards, and some scrapes on the right hand crash bar. There was no scraping or rubbing marks inside the fender so it may well be that it never bent so far it hit the tyre and whatever happened occurred some years ago as my mate owned the bike before me and he never had an accident on it.
 
essexboydave said:
It's a 99 model. It does seem to ride pretty well so I'm hoping the frame and swingarm are ok, the damage that I found was limited to the rear fender, the right hand pannier carrier which has bent upwards, and some scrapes on the right hand crash bar. There was no scraping or rubbing marks inside the fender so it may well be that it never bent so far it hit the tyre and whatever happened occurred some years ago as my mate owned the bike before me and he never had an accident on it.
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If you want to live with the "welded in" pin that is your choice. Just tried to give you an option to correct the tire change issue.
 
Success! The pin came out! What appeared to be weld turned out to be some kind of hardened crud around it, possibly old tarmac, it's lucky that I needed to repaint the swingarm anyway as it did take some heat and a long extension bar on the allen key but it did move eventually. Now the wheel goes in and out without letting the tyre down :)
 
john zibell said:
If you want to live with the "welded in" pin that is your choice. Just tried to give you an option to correct the tire change issue.
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Cheers for the link :) Always handy to have more sources of second hand spares. I wanted to explore all avenues of the problem without spending money as funds for rebuilding this bike are very limited, the tyres and shocks I do have to spend out on and possibly seat recovering too but as far as possible it needs to be done with the collection of old bits I have in my shed ;)
 
Erik Schmidt said:
New to Cali and wondering if removing top or bottom shock mounts would work. Anybody try this?
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It would help to get access to the axle nut and removal, especially if the mufflers were limiting access to them. But it wouldn't help removal of the wheel from the confines of the swinging arm.
Personally, I run the slightly thinner 140/80 rear tyre profile instead of the 150/70 initially spec'd for my EV Tourings, so don't have any problems with the wheel removal.
 
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