The Polish rebuild

Idaho Red Rocket 3 said:

Yes that red dry stuff is not rust. It is dried moly. Surprised me too first time in there. Be sure to coat the splines with new molly paste. You can get a new FD vent from Triumph. Be sure to use no more than 15 NM when installing the tiny drain plug bolt. Any more will snap it. Mine snapped just removing it. Next your starting can be improved by turning the key on twice before cranking. It lets the fuel pump fill the fuel rail better. Also did you replace the fuel filter ? If not, do it. Get a KL 145 from Mahle. Don't waist your money on a Triumph filter. The KL 145 is what they use with a Triumph paint job. On tires look at the new Metzler Cruise Techs if you can not find the Avon Cobra. I use these exclusively. Cobras are very good tires but are really hard to find, if they are even available anymore. There are some really nice exhaust systems for the RIII. I have mine from Viking Exhaust in New Zeeland. Expensive but nice. The owner Paul Bryant is on the forum. Look for used Triumph Off Road commonly called TORs, Stay In Tune, D&D, Jardine and many others you can see talked about on the forum. A very good tune to use is 20228 along with many modified tunes you can find on TuneECU. For the older Rocket III bikes TuneECU works well on a PC Laptop. That is how I connect with mine. I use the Tablet and Dongle on my 2022 Tiger 900 and Bonneville T120. These new bikes will not work on the PC laptop. Good luck.

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matjas said:

Sure - let’s see the difference between this and the older models splines. Actually I was pretty surprised to see the u joint in there. I thought this was something along the lines of motoguzzi with a round splined gland serving the pivotal/driving role.

As per the tuneecu Stef: first hand info - i have first gen Rocket and the latest tuneecu version i have on my Android tablet requires wireless connection ONLY.
As they stopped the PC version completely if you’re new to all of this I am afraid you’re sentenced to wireless.
The older version might still be kicking on a PC but I guess you will not be able to license it. Just guessing and might be wrong which happened plenty of times before

Thanks for the words of wisdom oj the splines - hope I will not be the first stripper thought even about filling these in with TIG wire and finding a machine shop to have them recut. Have the whole winter for this - we will see. Only thing is I don’t want to dismantle the ujoint but… this also could use some fresh quality grease after all these years. Not fitting greasing zerks in places like that should be punishable by sore pr.ck.

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matjas said:

ahahahahaha seems like I was not looking where it needed to be.
look what I found just this evening
1st one is NEW 2008+ touring shaft - but this might NOT fit into my FD according to the above posts
2nd one is slightly used but looks almost untouched where mine is shot and looks exactly like mine.

what do you think? Prices are the same - about 180EUR a piece.

Of course - this is not ideal - will work against the consumed outer part.

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