1986 VF1000R rear wheel asy fitment stock

00R Re-shoed the rear tire today for the first time. After mounting the new tire, I regreased the hub, and proceeded to mount the rear wheel in the swingarm. I tried several different times to fit the wheel between the chain tensioners, and brake assy to no success. I always had about the width of the tensioner, maybe 1/8 inch, that prevented me from completely aligning the wheel, brake and tensioners.

I backed the wheel out, and started looking at the hub. I noticed the hub does not seat cleanly into the wheel. It wobbles or teeter totters back and forth if I push on opposite sides. I am writing in hopes that some of you have seen or heard of this before. Does the hub have to be driven into the wheel, I noticed several teeth that I do not understand what their purpose is, and I dont want to start hitting this thing with a hammer! Advice appreciated pics below.









Anyone have an idea?

 

Hello, owned an 86 1000R for years. Those rubber dampeners inside hub are commonly referred to as a cush drive. They act as a shock absorber of sorts to help protect driveline components from abrupt clutch engagement. It is somewhat of a loose fit and you should be able to remove/ install the sprocket & hub assembly from the wheel with little effort. I do not recall ever having to "drive" the parts together. Hard to tell from your pics but you may have packed to much grease into the hub (your top pic). Grease will only compress so much, remove some & then reassemble.

 

the grease is covering an unsealed bearing in the hub. Its about the same amount as when I removed it. I did note that both chain tensioners are turned such that the flange end is facing inside the swingarm. The service manual shows it opposite I think. I can really only be sure of this because the wear indicator is facing the inside, not the outside. In a pic in the manual I can clearly see the hub behind the chain wear indicator, thus in the service manual its facing outward. So I think it would be safe to presume a PO flipped them. The space I need to remount is by eyeballing the amount I need to fit this back together. Hmmmmn. I wonder how the last mech got that asy to fit together, and what issues it may have by returning it to the original orientation.

 

OK that was it, it fit together like it should have once the tensioners were turned around. Test ride went well. I will keep my fingers crossed and keep an eye on it.



A couple hundred miles and it all looks good. Wish I had caught this earlier.