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G'day All
I have a late '80's Bullet 350 Superstar. I had a bit of a spill on a dirt road and I'm just re-adjusting the front end. There seems to be quite a bit of movement when I hold the wheel between my knees and push side to side on the handlebars. I've aligned everything and tightened up the forks, wheel nuts, bottom of the triple tree pinch bolts and the head stem adjustment bolt and lock nut. All tight but still that movement.

I notice my other Bullet 350, with the standard nacelle has a allen bolt (pinch bolt)clamping the nacelle and steering mechanism to the head stem shaft to stop the side to side movement.

I cant find a allen pinch bolt anywhere on the super Star triple tree. Should it have one? Am I missing something here?

REgards
Tony

[Adrian]

Tony,



if you check the on-line parts books for Indian Bullets they show the Superstar variant of the from forks and the parts involved. The Superstar just has the two big chrome lock nuts nuts at the top of the steering stem, same as the Lightning models.



http://www.hitchcocksmotorcycles.com/pa ... perstar%29



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[jefrs]

Sometimes the legs come away from the top yoke. Loosen the lower pinch bolts and plunge the forks to push them up, tighten top lock nuts then lower pinch whilst squaring up. Sometimes you have to fasten the pinch bolt to twist the leg in the top yoke, and then re-do it. The nuts cannot pull the legs up tight if the bottom yoke is fastened. Check pinch clamps are not fully closed, you cannot tighten any more than that; metal can stretch, there should be a little clearance once the legs are clamped. Some BSA forks are like this, I'm thinking the top is tapered fit into the yoke and held tight by the nut. Good luck.

[Norm]

Tony, you are well aware of my position with Indian Enfields in my shed but as a gesture of Christmas spirit , if you want to bring it over I will have a look at it and see what we can do. Did that short footpeg fit?

[Adrian]

I have the Superstar top yoke on my AVL hybrid.



The fork stanchions screw into it as they do with the alloy casquette on other models. The lower of the two top lock nuts on the steering stem is sleeved, the sleeve sits in a recess machined in the hole counter-bored in the top yoke where the steering stem passes through, there is nothing tapered there.



The (much) later 350 RE Thunderbird model does have a taper on the bottom face of the lower steering stem lock nut, with the recess in the top yoke machined to match, but that is irrelevant as far as your bike is concerned.



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[Norm]

Adrian, I have just remembered Tony recently fitted a set of forks from a later Bullet which screw in as per a standard nacelle. I will need to have a look at it to see what needs doing