Just wondering if anyone has had a problem similar to mine. I have a 2008 FXDB Street Bob. I had a new rear tyre fitted and thought while the wheel was out I would get the bearings replaced. With the work done all seemed well for a few weeks and about 500 Klms till the outside rear brake pad just fell out and was swinging on the pin. Had me puzzeled as how the pad could get out. Back to the workshop and the mechanic who fitted the bearings found that the rear wheel had shifted over about 5 mm towards the drive side of the rear end thus giving the brake pad plenty of room to drop out of the retaining clips and also wearing 5mm out of the brake caliper support bracket.

The fix that he came up with was the remove the bearing from the drive side and put in 5mm of spacers behind the bearing and put a thin shim in behind the bearing on the brake disc side to centralise the wheel and the brake disc

Having to put in spacers in where there were none before and presumably the bearings were the same as the ones  removed  and three hours of labor seems weird.                                               

Cheers Macka55

 

Is it possible that the axle spacers where fitted on the wrong sides when the new tyre and bearings were fitted ?

What's the belt /pulley alignment like ?

Maybe forgot to put the centre spacer in???
 

Right spacer has 2 fine machined marks in it and bearings have spacer between them, had similar problem with right side abs bearing which is fatter(in non abs bike ,band new wheels with brand new tires $500), was ok for 500km but ware more on 1 pad then eventually  light rub ware on caliper carrier. Strange making spacers up, wrong bearing , swapped spacer?missing spacer sleeve? Watch rear brake bads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey Pat...Did you just change the abs bearing to fix the problem or did you have to make a new space as well...?

 

Cheers...

new bearing right side rear, and front  one too. abs outer  spacer different(electrical gizmo there too) , pick up for abs in fatter bearing. workshop schematic  Pic here

   http://www.hdforums.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=71&view=topic&postid=518151&forumid=24

 

 

bloody hell that sounds as dodgey as Macka.. I wouldn't be happy

 

Thanks guys. My suspicion is that the right hand side bearing was not seated against the inside hub in the first place. I will keep a close eye on it and maybe research it a bit more. Once again thanks for your input.

Cheers Macka