My experience has been you might be better off going to a local bike
shop that works on Kaws. They are usually setup with the right tools to
handle the job. A local machine shop may charge you to setup a fixture
to handle the wheel. Besides, the local bike shop maybe interested to
hear about the bike!
Shawn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well after 2 years of riding my EV has broken down. I have been
experiencing a noise from the drive line area and over the weekend
tore things down to investigate.
I lost a rear wheel bearing on the drive side of the Kawasaki. This is
possibly due to a too tight chain and of course the excessive gross
vehicle weight, but at 3,000 miles still a bit of a surprise. The
bearing looks to be a low drag type (e.g. no seal) and to be a fairly
cheap type. On the old bearing the race that holds the ball bearings
in place failed. I am tempted to replace it with a premium quality
sealed type bearing which is what is installed on the non drive side
of the rear wheel (although I recognize that there may be a small
efficiency penalty due to the seal friction.
It seems that although I have one battery that performs worse than the
others the electric stuff just keeps going and going.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good machine shop in the
Denver area that can press in the new bearing for me? Otherwise I'll
just take it down to the local cycle dealer.
Mike Bachand
Denver Electric Vehicle Council (DEVC) - Colorado Chapter of the EAA
1994 Kawasaki Ninja EV
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