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Dismounting And Mounting The Front Wheel; Dismounting And Mounting The Rear Wheel - KTM 400LC4 Owner's Handbook Manual

Supermoto 1999 year

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Dismounting and mounting the front wheel

– To remove the front wheel, jack the motorcycle up on its frame so that
the front wheel no longer touches the ground.
– Loosen the collar screw
1
– Loosen the 4 clamping screws
– Use the collar screw to push the wheel spindle forward and remove the
collar screw.
– Hold the front wheel, pull out the wheel spindle
NOTICE: the wheel spindle may be pulled out more easily, if you slide an
open-end wrench (17mm) onto the flat portion of the wheel spindle.
– Remove front wheel carefully from the fork and take the speedometer
4
drive
off the hub.
!
D
O NOT OPERATE THE HAND BRAKE WHEN THE FRONT WHEEL HAS BEEN DISMOUNTED
– Prior to mounting the front wheel, clean and grease sealing ring
6
running surface
at the speedometer drive.
– To mount the front wheel, lift it into the fork. Insert speedometer drive
into the hub. Make sure that the driving tabs
the drive.
– Position front wheel and speedometer drive, and mount wheel spindle.
1
– Mount collar screw
, turn speedometer drive in a way that the flexible
speedometer shaft will curve upwards in a slight bow and tighten collar
screw to 40 Nm (30 ft.lb).
– Take the motorcycle off the stand and bounce the fork hard a few times
to align the fork legs.
– Then tighten clamping screws
WARNING
– I
'
F YOU DON
T HAPPEN TO HAVE A TORQUE WRENCH AT HAND
HAVE THE TIGHTENING TORQUE CORRECTED BY A
. A
POSSIBLE
LOOSE AXLE MAY LEAD TO AN UNSTABLE DRIVING BEHAVIOR OF YOUR
.
MOTORCYCLE
– A
FTER MOUNTING THE FRONT WHEEL
.
PRESSURE POINT RETURNS
– I
T IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE BRAKE DISK FREE FROM OIL AND FATTY MATTERS
EITHERWISE THE BRAKING EFFECTS WOULD BE STRONGLY REDUCED

Dismounting and mounting the rear wheel*

Park the motorcycle on the center stand. The rear wheel must not touch the
ground.
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Loosen the collar nut
, remove chain tensioner
and pull out the wheel spindle
caliper support is still held. Push the rear wheel as far forward as possible,
take the chain from the rear sprocket and carefully take the rear wheel out
of the swingarm.
!
– D
O NOT OPERATE THE REAR BRAKE WHEN THE REAR WHEEL HAS BEEN DISMOUNTED
– I
F THE AXLE IS DISMOUNTED
COLLAR NUT THOROUGHLY AND APPLY A NEW COAT OF GREASE
G
)
REASE
TO PREVENT THE THREAD FROM JAMMING
The rear wheel is remounted in reverse order. Before tightening the collar
nut to 80 Nm (60 ft.lb), push the rear wheel forwards so that the chain
tensioners lie on the tension screws.
WARNING
– I
'
F YOU DON
T HAPPEN TO HAVE A TORQUE WRENCH AT HAND
HAVE THE TIGHTENING TORQUE CORRECTED BY A
. A
POSSIBLE
LOOSE WHEEL SPINDLE MAY LEAD TO AN UNSTABLE DRIVING BEHAVIOR
.
OF YOUR MOTORCYCLE
– A
FTER MOUNTING THE REAR WHEEL
.
PRESSURE POINT RETURNS
– I
T IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE BRAKE DISK FREE FROM OIL AND GREASE
WISE THE BRAKING EFFECT WOULD BE STRONGLY REDUCED
and unscrew it approx. 5 turns.
2
on the fork leg axle passage.
3
CAUTION
7
engage with the slots of
5
to a max. torque of 10 Nm (7 ft.lbs).
KTM
DEALER AS SOON AS
,
KEEP OPERATING THE HAND BRAKE UNTIL THE
9
, hold the rear wheel
bk
until the rear wheel is free but the brake
CAUTION
,
CLEAN THE THREAD OF THE WHEEL SPINDLE AND
.
KTM
DEALER AS SOON AS
,
KEEP OPERATING THE FOOTBRAKE UNTIL THE
.
!
.
5
and
,
MAKE SURE YOU
,
.
!
.
(S
A
HELL
DVANCE
,
MAKE SURE YOU
,
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