[Spanner Man]

Good morning all.


It may be that your swinging arm just needs the spindle re-tightened.

When installing the swinging arm. first you torque up the spindle to 15nm, then torque the standard nut to 100nm, & finally torque the castellated nut to 90nm.

Unfortunately you cannot remove the swinging arm without first removing the exhaust. Although you can leave the stub pipe in the rear cylinder head, & separate the exhaust at the joint you mentioned, but you still have to remove the exhaust bolts on the front cylinder.
Start soaking all of the exhaust bolts with penetrant if you plan to remove the swinging arm.

If you do remove the swinging arm to re-grease the bearings, it helps to tighten & undo the spindle several times, before torquing it to 15nm. This helps to squeeze out any excess grease.


Cheers.