Old 2 stroke help required

[yamaha_george]

Hi
anyone have the steering head angle roller bearing sizes for the RD400 79 or daytona model handy.

PLEASE DO NOT tell me about kits from the likes of allballs (which is an aptly named company) or any other parochial bunch of Assw*pes as i have wasted nearly a week trying to get them to to do business and that includes M&P etc from the UK who will not sell off shore via paypal / credit card

IF I have sizes or the numbers my local man can have them to me in 24 hours. order placed by 11am.


Thanks and if I sound P*ssed off it is because I am after sundry trans-atlantic calls & calls to north america. from my other home.

[thatkid]

This could or could not help you. You mean Taper bearings? and you want them delivered to the Windies?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pyramid-Parts-Y ... B001KGXN9I <<< out of stock, Note the bearing are photographed upside down, the bearing number is usually stamped on the top of the inner race.

Product Description
Yamaha RD400 1976 to 1979 Steering Head Bearings Kit. These kits are direct replacements and an upgrade for the loose ball bearings (if fitted). These kits come complete with seals where applicable.

# Manufacturer reference: BR26-3045
# ASIN: B001KGXN9I

those numbers mean nothing to me, and may not help.

Looks like RD350 LC 1980 - 1983 Steering Head Bearings Kit, are the same.

In the early 80's my RD400 rear wheel bearings where shot, I went to Edmunds Walker (if memory serves me correctly) they looked in their bearing catalogue and matched the bearings, They where in stock unlike the local Yamaha stealership and cheaper by a long way. I did have the old bearings with me, numbers stamped on them. So that probably wont help you if the bearing are in the Windies.

They are also listed (different company) on eBay but no part numbers, Price £24.95 PP UK £3.00

[thatkid]

I found them cheaper on eBay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-RD400-1976 ... 5ad711cd57

Product Code: BR26-3045 <<< that correspond with the previous Manufacturer reference:

[DonTZ125]

http://www.wemoto.com/bikes/Yamaha/RD_400_F/79/

Tapered Headrace Bearings Set, Upper 48x25x13mm, Lower 48x30x13mm

[yamaha_george]

Thanks guys I will feed these numbers to my man of business, hope fully I will have them by wednesday as that will give me 12 hours to put the bike back together before I leave the island,

You would think in a world recession that people would be falling over them selves to sell you stuff.
I am canceling my account with M &P and their off spring the Fast One etc. as I do not expect to be told as a UK citizen they will not deliver to the west indies even though I have a UK credit card for a UK address they happily accept at other times well F 'em.

The same goes for AllBalls I will black list them along with Race Tech for their Xenophobia and parochial attitude Wan&ers.

Imagine a tiny little bearing shop in the back streets of an agricultural village in the west indies can do better than
"a
name" companies in two first world countries

[thatkid]

I do not expect to be told as a UK citizen they will not deliver to the west indies even though I have a UK credit card for a UK address they happily accept at other times well F 'em.

Geo that's a security measure, I believe the product has to be delivered to the holders registered address of the Credit Card, same with paypal.

I.E. the supplier ships to an unregistered address, they don't get reimbursed in the case of fraud.

A few years ago I sold a phone on eBay, received payment via paypal. The owners eBay account and paypal account had been hacked. (he/she had probably replied to phishing e-mails)
Because I sent to the eBay hacked account address (UK address btw) paypal would not refund me. They said it was my fault!!!! even though the e-mail from eBay gave me the fraudulent address.

Luckily it was only about £19 I lost plus the cost of postage and eBay sellers fees which were not refunded.
Others got conned out of £100's. I looked at what that fraudster had bid on all were mobile phones and lots of them.

In a world recession companies cannot afford to get ripped off.

[yamaha_george]

M,
whilst what you say is true enough,my case is a little different I have two cards one of which is my west indian address delivery only and M&P KNOW as we ie they and I discussed a relatively foolproof way of doing it) and the other is for my UK address delivery only.
The same goes for ebay if I stipulate one card I can buy anywhere and depending on which card i chose they agree to deliver to one address or the other. My bank Nat west is in on this and if i pay thro one account it is UK payments only if thro the other there is a limit on payment unless i phone ahead that I am clearing it with security questions and a catch word if I am under threat.

What pisses me is that you give these companies these safeguards for them and it takes aweek almost of phone calls faxes , emails and still get nowhere.

I gave my my man the measurements from DONTZ(thank you Don) and i had them in hand within the 24 hours had his boy deliver them as he knew i was in a hell of a hurry. Bike is back up on two wheels, rode it down to his shop to pay him and what do I get,"its alright Mr George you helped my son learn a trade so next time we can all have a drink together " made me feel a whole lot better that there still are humans left in the world.

[foxeyepete]

Hi try here http://www.wemoto.com/ got mine for my rd350 from here Peter and for iridium plugs http://www.mister-solutions.co.uk/

[yamaha_george]

Hi try here http://www.wemoto.com/ got mine for my rd350 from here Peter and for iridium plugs http://www.mister-solutions.co.uk/

Peter,
thanks but I was in the west indies, back in 83 I wrote a log book for a bike I built for a customer and wrote down that the steering head bearings were 32005X & 32006X which they still are EXCEPT that bike i cut off the original steering head bearing cups and made a new set to take those bearings.

Now like all good engineers I kept a copy of that book (cannot trust info given to customers because they lose shit) so when I made the next bike i wrote the bearings as 32005 32006 which of course they are NOT because on that bike I had no reason to change the size of the steering head cups. So when back earlier this year I noticed the steering was iffy I removed the bearings put them in a box left them on my desk in my Den in the windies & flew back top the uk and bought a set of you guessed it the wrong bearings.

When I suddenly had to fly back i find I have the wrong bearings so I get on the internet to a UK company with whom I had an account the asswipes will not ship the stuff to me DESPITE the fact I have a written agreement that is I use a certain credit card they will ship to my home in the windies, despite phone calls and emails they stuck to their non-sense so now they have lost about 5K's worth of custom a month to my friends shop paid on the same card & same address out there simply because some idiot cannot be bothered to read.

So I contact the next bunch of idiots who supply my old company with all their industrial bearings ,bushes etal and guess what they will not ship to there either.This is despite a delivery 3 days before same address, same card WTF. so I have dumped them and set up with a local guy who got me what I wanted in my hand in 24 hours, he will be turning over probably 20K+ USD a year extra a year .

I cannot believe the total idiosey of two supposedly well established companies behaving in such a manner.
In case anyone wonder I am hacked off to the point of talking to my brother's legal firm who handle things for me about breach of contract, costs of over runs due to lack of compliance, damages to my old companies reputation and of course my own name.:-}
lets see who can sweat ...............

[foxeyepete]

Hi thats not very good but seems very typical of uk companys ,im sure as you are aware on aircooled forum there are still lots of places to get parts from and i a m happy to share with anyone info i have with companys i have found useful and fortunately most do ship internationally ,glad you got it sorted ,will try and update events when i find out about them if youre interested some involve 2 strokes as i had mine for 5years, its hard to let go of them or is it the smell i miss ,all the best Peter

[Fartblood]

Blimey George, you got more homes than Richard Branson.

Perhaps we should call you Sir George? Hell mate, you got the beard and it wouldn't surprise me if you were building a spaceship (FZR powered, natch) in your garage!

[yamaha_george]

Hell mate, you got the beard and it wouldn't surprise me if you were building a spaceship

Nah been there done that for govt back in the sixties, The constabulary got very ticked at a mate and myself when we renewed our gun licenses by putting "rocket scientist" as our occupations.
So they called us in for a chat and wanted to give us a bollocking for being flippant with Govt rules & the law etc.We let them bluster for a bit then he produced his BP Propellant Lab ID (rocket fuel experimental stuff) & I produced my pass for RPE base pass (RPE = rocket propulsion establishment for the MoD) as I designed bits for rockets etc..

Yes officer you were saying? just because we are young does not make us stupid, now you have some thing to say..............

[Fartblood]

You've not been the same since someone beat your Atlantic crossing record

[yamaha_george]

You've not been the same since someone beat your Atlantic crossing record

yup and they would not let me have a Concorde to play with either spoil sports