Yamaha TRX850 Enthusiasts Forum

H follks,

For those of you that have done it, how did you raise the rear end of the bike to allow you to change out the dog bones? I had thought my paddock stand would do the trick until I realised that I was loading up the rear suspension

Any tips?

Thank you!

try a block of wood on rear wheel and braced against the bar under pillion seat -- just make sure rear wheel doesnt move

Get a piece of bar to go through swing arm pivot point and then an axle stand on either side.

If you put your paddock stand on some blocks or boards, then use it as usual, this should give you the extra height to be able to put the bar and axle stands/piles of wood/bricks in place. Then take it off the paddock stand.

Or just use a ratchet strap up over your ceiling Joyce in the garage and take the weight off the rear end with the bike on your paddock stand.
Loosen all the bolts before you do this though.
Take off the tail piece and cradle the rear frame.
Once suspended remove the bolts and dog bones , ratchet up a couple of clicks so your shorter dog bone align and return the bolts and nuts.
Release the ratchet and when on solid ground, torque up the bolts..

trixynut wrote:Get a piece of bar to go through swing arm pivot point and then an axle stand on either side.

If you put your paddock stand on some blocks or boards, then use it as usual, this should give you the extra height to be able to put the bar and axle stands/piles of wood/bricks in place. Then take it off the paddock stand.

This is my recommended method. It's worked for me on many bikes.
Not everyone has a Joyce in their ceiling and ratchet straps. I really don't want to think any further about what Cobba is getting up to (bloody Queenslanders, they're a weird mob).
I have stabilised the bike by using a strap suspended from a ceiling joist, assuming that they are exposed, most garages are, that works quite well.

cobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote:Or just use a ratchet strap up over your ceiling Joyce in the garage and take the weight off the rear end with the bike on your paddock stand.
Loosen all the bolts before you do this though.
Take off the tail piece and cradle the rear frame.
Once suspended remove the bolts and dog bones , ratchet up a couple of clicks so your shorter dog bone align and return the bolts and nuts.
Release the ratchet and when on solid ground, torque up the bolts..

As cobba states I put a sling round rear of frame and lifted the back end up using chain block suspended off the garage roof joist, which worked fine. Again as he says loosen off all the bolts with the bike on the ground, while doing all this I would remove and grease all the suspension linkage bearings!

dicky wrote:

trixynut wrote:Get a piece of bar to go through swing arm pivot point and then an axle stand on either side.

If you put your paddock stand on some blocks or boards, then use it as usual, this should give you the extra height to be able to put the bar and axle stands/piles of wood/bricks in place. Then take it off the paddock stand.

This is my recommended method. It's worked for me on many bikes.
Not everyone has a Joyce in their ceiling and ratchet straps. I really don't want to think any further about what Cobba is getting up to (bloody Queenslanders, they're a weird mob).
I have stabilised the bike by using a strap suspended from a ceiling joist, that works quite well.

Maybe Cobba has been reading fifty shades of shite - and got his garage suitably kitted out - bit rough trying it out on a poor innocent rex - LOL

For me, it's side stand or paddock stand and a trolley jack under the shock linkage. Make sure the trolley jack is aligned with the shock and secured/doesn't move

Loosen up the dog bones bolts before placing the bike on the trolley jack

I want to hear more about Joyce - sounds like a right 'un!!

Yer baby,
Lifting her rear end gives me a bone a dog couldn't chew through...

Close Simon, it was an add online selling 50 shades of rim tape...

Rimming tape? Nah, that`s a Aussie thing.

Brian I am deffo at one with mince on this one

thanks for the replies guys.

In the end i used a bar under the subframe and then lowered the bike off the paddock stand so that the bar rested on blocks either side of the bike. Not the safest method but it worked!

cobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote:Yer baby,
Lifting her rear end gives me a bone a dog couldn't chew through...

Close Simon, it was an add online selling 50 shades of rim tape...

You haven't met my dog!!

I have!