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Triumph Eccentric Swap (pic heavy) (not complete)


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First and foremost, want to thank Mrmatt for his post a while back that make me decide to do this for my project.

Here's the link to his thread. Now that I am finally getting around to doing it, I can verify all the measurements he took. Lots of the pictures are just of measurements, but this way it can't be questioned in the future.

*** Not finished yet. Still need to take measurements with the wheel on to get final info.

Forewarning, you are going to need either a very large snap-ring plier, or you will need to modify a pair of needle nose pliers to get the snap ring off the eccentric. This is the hardest part of the disassembly. Snap ring pliers this size are $35-$50. Otherwise you can grind down the tips of the HF 90 degree needle nose pliers with the orange grips. The VFR ring is fairly easy. The triumph one is a dog.

So lets begin. First things first. Injure yourself in such a way to make tool handling painful and difficult. As a side note, rags are not sufficient protection against 20ft long chips.

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Next, find yourself a comfortable environment. 88F and 70% humidity will do nicely.

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Then find the mess that someone has left behind at your work area, and clean it up.

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Wiped down and chip free surface. Grabbed some blocks, clamped the swingarm down, and got to taking measurements.

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Measurement for inside of sprocket carrier for VFR

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VFR sprocket carrier thickness.

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VFR sprocket carrier surface to surface double check.

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VFR swingarm surface to wheel mounting surface.

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VFR wheel mounting surface thickness.

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The hammer lies upon its prey. Triumph eccentric tapped out and removed. It came out nice and easy. I couldn't get the caliper hanger off, so I had to use the hammer to give it a couple of light taps to get it started. Once the caliper hanger was on the step, it came right off, so must have just been a little dirt keeping it from coming off.

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So nice of triumph to add never-seize. Probably helped with the removal.IMG_2231.jpg

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Either Honda didn't bother putting any grease on the eccentric, or it all dried up and washed away. The honda eccentric was pretty difficult to get out. Had to use the mallet to get it to the caliper hanger, but the eccentric kept getting stuck part of the way out. Turns out that there was so much dirt and debris in there that it would get stuck between the middle of the eccentric and the swingarm and bind everything. Took lots of shaking and blowing junk out to finally get it out.

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Total height of the triumph eccentric

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Triumph eccentric swingarm section.

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VFR eccentric total height.

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VFR eccentric swingarm section.

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Just for giggles. Triumph eccentric weight.

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Honda eccentric weight.

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The VFR swingarm after removing the eccentric. You can see that the surfaces aren't very clean, and there's still some dirt in there.IMG_2240.jpg

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Time to toss the Triumph goodies in there. Fresh new coat of never-seize on the triumph eccentric

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Sitting nice and flush

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Nice and flush on this end too

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Somehow I feel like I have just made it heavier. Also, you need to use the triumph caliper bracket to have the eccentric sitting where it is supposed to. The VFR caliper bracket has the same ID, so if you really wanted to use the VFR hangar for whatever reason, you could possibly make a spacer for it.

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Triumph rotor carrier thickness.

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Thickness of sprocket carrier for triumph bit.

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Triumph wheel mounting surface to swingarm surface

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Triumph sprocket carrier surface to swingarm surface

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VFR Wheel offset

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848 Wheel Offset

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Weights are added to the chart. I don't think anyone wants pictures of all that. You can go in the photobucket album if you really want.

So here's a chart of the differences in sizes and some weights

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End result is that I gain 0.5 lbs by doing the swap for the opportunity to run a single nut wheel. I have a VFR wheel with a tire and the 848 without, and still have to consider the caliper, caliper hanger, and the rotor, and the wheel nuts, so that's not the total weight just yet.

Looks like everything is still pretty close to where it should be, unless someone finds a fault in my math and measurements.

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No, I keep intending to write it up in a separate thread but haven't yet. I think there's some more pics in my gallery and I briefly go through it on my "vfr conversion" thread, but here's a reply I made to somebody else asking about it.

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This is the list of parts I used:

06/07 Speed Triple - (same as many of the Triumph SSSA bikes, from at least '97)

Eccentric hub

Sprocket/sprocket carrier/cush drive and nut (english thread)

Axle (needed threads cut, remember its english tread)

Axle nut (english thread)

Rear brake caliper

Rear caliper bracket

2x warped washers (can be VFR or Triumph)

Ducati S4R/Multistrada - (most if not all Ducati rims have the same offset, but they do have two different axle sizes)

Wheel

Conical wheel holder thing (goes between wheel and axle nut)

VFR

Rear brake master

Chain

Swingarm and rest of bike

Special parts

- you may want to check wheel and chain alignment, I came up with 5 and 2.5

Sprocket washer/spacer (OD 55, ID 40, T 2.5 mm)

Wheel/axle spacer (OD 44, ID 40, T 5 mm)

Dust seal spacer (OD 50, ID 45, T 5 mm)

2x Rear brake caliper spacer (OD 20, ID 10, T 5 mm)

Rear brake torque arm

Also page 2 of my 'VFR750 conversion' album pics DSC01761-1773 have pics of a few of this stuff. 1762 shows the axle/wheel spacer that fits inside of the eccentric hub and against a bearing for a tight fit, 1763 is the location of the cush drive spacer. I hope its clear enough, have any more questions let me know.

I've put about 10k miles on this, including weekend trips to WV and IN without any problems so I think its pretty good. The machinist drilled a couple of holes to wire the axle nut so its secured.

The only problem with this mod is that on the cush drive side, the axle is shorter because of the spacers, so the locking flange of the nut on that side is 1-2mm past the axle so when the flange is bent to lock the nut it does not have as much to bite into, but it still does a little. I always check it before I ride and have not noticed any slipping. If there was a way to wire the nut as well that would be the best solution.

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I'm going to check alignment for real next time (no tires) so I'll know if my 5mm wheel offset is correct, but I haven't been working on it for a while, been distracted fitting a 748 tail to my brother's Hawk so we can sell it. If you need any more pics or info let me know

Matt

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More info from him can be found in the thread linked in the first post.

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Great job so far! I am guessing that the Triumph front mounts for the swing arm also don't match up with the VFR engine mounting points...

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Great job so far! I am guessing that the Triumph front mounts for the swing arm also don't match up with the VFR engine mounting points...

Not even close. You could possibly machine it down and weld some back in, but it's over an inch wider, not to mention much heavier.

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ok. now i need to find a 748 and a 848 swing arm to measure...good info Yoshi.

Why are you trying to swap over the entire swingarm?

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Because the Duc swingarm is lighter than the VFR and the rear brake wont have to be sorted when the 3 piston VFR caliper is removed to make room for the Duc wheel (also lighter).

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More info on this - if you want to run a Ducati wheel, the 1098 wheel won't fit, nor will the wheel off some of the more recent high-performance Monsters, and the Streetfighter. They have a larger diameter axle.

You need a 916 - 996 - 998 - 848 wheel.

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Because the Duc swingarm is lighter than the VFR and the rear brake wont have to be sorted when the 3 piston VFR caliper is removed to make room for the Duc wheel (also lighter).

If you're really interested in going for dropping as much weight as possible, you might want to just go for a conventional swingarm. You'll lose a lot more weight that way. This should really be considered more of an extensive cosmetic mod. Heck, only reason I'm doing it is because I found a steal on that ducati wheel that I had to weld up and repair.

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Not interested in the lightest rear ass'y but want a single nut rear wheel. some sssa wheels are heavier than Hondas (aprilia and triumph have both been reported as such to me by eBay sellers).

The Ducati 748/848 stuff is apparently lighter.

I want to keep the 5.5" width rear so not looking at the newer stuff that is 6" wide and has the larger axle.

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Dude, measurements in inches? Nice. True machinist. All of our designs are done in metric, then converted to English measurements for machining in the lab I work(ed) in.

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Not interested in the lightest rear ass'y but want a single nut rear wheel. some sssa wheels are heavier than Hondas (aprilia and triumph have both been reported as such to me by eBay sellers).

The Ducati 748/848 stuff is apparently lighter.

I want to keep the 5.5" width rear so not looking at the newer stuff that is 6" wide and has the larger axle.

That's about right. The Aprilia Mana front wheel I got for peanuts weights more than the 848 rear, the VFR front, and the R1 front. It's around 10.5, whereas the 848 stock rear is 9.8lbs. Only good thing about the Ape wheel is that I got Galfer wave rotors for dirt cheap as well, but now have to deal with the 22mm ID for the axle.

It would be interesting to see how much the ducati swingarm weights. If I didn't mention it before, the VFR swingarm complete was around 26.5 lbs. +/- 0.5lbs.

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Dude, measurements in inches? Nice. True machinist. All of our designs are done in metric, then converted to English measurements for machining in the lab I work(ed) in.

Yes. All measurements in inches and lbs. True machinist is going to be dealing with the english threads on the spindle. Not sure if it would be best to try and use a lathe to cut the thread, or just cut the OD and use a die.

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Fixed the problem with the updated chart not uploading properly.

The wheel is only 0.05" too far in. I should be able to water cut a spacer to push it out and still have the wheel contact the counterbore on the pins. IIRC, the step on the four pins for the wheel is 0.100". Either that, or that's the depth I cut it to in the wheel. Will have to check. If not I can always make 0.05" washers to sit on the pins and call it a day.

The sprocket is 0.072" too far in, which isn't much either. That's another water cut spacer and I can call it a day. Unless the 520 conversion throws a curve at me.

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I have Matt's notes in a PM. If he doesn't post up soon, I'll add them in. Right now I have to get back to getting my car fixed.

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Added in mrmatt's note that I had from a while ago. It seems we are going about this in two different ways, and that the wheel offsets might be different.

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More pictures

VFR caliper hanger thickness

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Triumph caliper thickness

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The triumph caliper also weights TWICE the VFR one. 0.5lbs vs 0.25 lbs. Tsk Tsk.

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Plenty of room to bolt down the sprocket hub.

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Way too much material on the wheel side of the spindle.

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The step keeps the cone from touching the wheel, and the threads are too short to make the wheel nut useful.

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You cannot use the Triumph wheel cone either. Need to use the correct ducati cone.

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This is with the eccentric all the way to the rear

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This is with the eccentric all the way to the front.

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Looks like I'll have the wheel clearance no problem. Just need to start designing the spacers and send them over to get cut out.

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