Hey everyone,
I am in a real jam with this. I only have my bike and that's it, no car, so I am stranded.
Was doing a valve adjustment and tighten the #2 inlet nut and ended up stripping it. A friend told me the nut was a 7mm x 1mm pitch and was lucky enough to have a friend pick some up from me in a town about an hour away.
Got the nuts, which were regular steel, and the pitch was wrong. 1mm looks like a course thread whereas the threads on the adjustment stem look very fine.
This is a serious problem for me. I live out in nowhere and the only person I knew that could take me around just walked out on his girlfiend and left for Florida, so I am stranded, and this is SERIOUS bad.
So, a few questions:
1) what is the correct size nut?
2) what is the liablilty of driving the bike without that one adjustment screw?
3) could I use red loctite to hold it in place temporarily?
I have another parts bike in Houston - 8 hours away. I have no time (and no money) to wait for a bike bandit order to arrive. Im thinking about simply putting it back together and heading to Houston, and if I have to, swap engines.
Does anyone have ANY suggestions?