OK... I am going to toss this out there to get recommendations from the technical wizards out there.
Skookum has 12,000 miles in her and I have always kept the chain within specs. A while back, I installed a pair of home-made chrome-moly drop links and slid the front tubes to lower the seat about an inch.
Considering that the drop links have changed the swingarm angle, do I need to alter the original chain tension setting when it is sitting on the sidestand? My concern is that, with the altered swingarm angle, the lower portion of the chain is actually running physically closer to the swingarm than the stock setup and if I use the original slack measurements, the chain may be slapping the bottom of the swingarm more frequently.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.
>Thom
Skookum has 12,000 miles in her and I have always kept the chain within specs. A while back, I installed a pair of home-made chrome-moly drop links and slid the front tubes to lower the seat about an inch.
Considering that the drop links have changed the swingarm angle, do I need to alter the original chain tension setting when it is sitting on the sidestand? My concern is that, with the altered swingarm angle, the lower portion of the chain is actually running physically closer to the swingarm than the stock setup and if I use the original slack measurements, the chain may be slapping the bottom of the swingarm more frequently.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.
>Thom