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This is very close to the way ours work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQHu3t-0QEA

Of the three nuts in question, the bottom most adjusts the bearings. The middle (called a lock or jam) nut locks the bottom nut in place, and the top most nut holds the yoke in place. The top most nut does nothing to adjust bearings. The bottom and middle nuts are hidden from view when triple tree is fully assembled.

If someone did indeed try to adjust the steering bearings by over tightening the top most nut, then a concerted effort should be made to keep this person away from all tools, vehicles of any sort, and other assorted sharp and pointy objects.





I am going to agree with your reply here I tell you what happened.

As I said nearly two weeks ago I booked my bike into the local Triumph dealership to get the head bearing checked, I stayed at the shop in the showroom when they took the bike to the workshop.

I was only in the showroom 10 maybe 15 minutes when they finished working on my bike and told my the head bearing have been tighten.

So I went for a ride and found the bike was not to good to ride and if I did let go of the bars the bike weaved from side to side.

I went back to the dealership and told them what was happening they told me not to worry about it because after a few weeks it would wear in and the bike would ride nomally of course this did not happen.

Ok I went to a mates house who is pretty handy working on bikes and asked him to check out my bike and see what he thought, after he took my bike for a test ride he came back and told me he thought the steering was to tight.

So here begins the fun, we put my bike up on his jack and found out there was no free fall of the forks to the left or right not a good sign, so the first thing we did was loosen the headstock nut (this is the one I was trying to find the info about) having to use a breaker bar on it because the nut was torqued up that tight.

As soon as this nut was loose the forks had free fall again, so here lies my tale of woe, the dealerships way of tighting and checking the head bearings was to overtorque the heasdstock nut so much that it loaded up the head bearings with pressue thus making my bike do the weave and not making it much fun to ride.

So now I got my bike back to handling the way it should thanks to all the helpful replies here and on another site about the right torque settings for the headstock nut, as for the dealership well they have lost my business which makes it harder for me, because the next closest Triumph dealership is three hours away but I cross that bridge when I come to it cheers.

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