Hi All!
Just to give my KDX-220 a bit more flair and mechanical soundness, I tried the other night to install a D.I.D. 520 VM x-ring chain and Renthal front and rear sprockets. Both sprockets were a snap to install and went in with no troubles at all, but the chain is another thing entirely!
Knowing nothing at the time of ordering about riveted master links vs. clips etc etc (and still knowing next to nothing about it) I went about taking off my old o-ring chain (which I have on the wall now as a spare and trying to put the DID on... I bought the motion pro chain breaker tool, which made taking the old chain off a breeze, but when I installed the new chain I pressed one side of the side plate on the master link on a little too far... and I have no idea how to "back it out" a smidge without destroying the masterlink.
Another thing that confuses me is that the master link came in a little plastic bag with the chain and included one sideplate with the pins already riveted in, 4 x-ring seals, the other press on side plate and a packet of seal grease... No rivets, no "clips" etc...
Am I missing pieces here? or is the masterlink I got a "rivet" type that has to have the ends of the axles squashed like I see on the other links? The pins that come thru the side plate have holes in the middle. Does a rivet go in there? If its a clip type that simply missing the clip then I am at a loss because there is no groove in the sides of the pins where the clip would slide in....
Kind of frustrating, though it is still a learning experience I can share with others, and though the chain was not cheap, I know at the most I am out the cost of a new master link should I need to destroy it to take it off...
Just desperate to find out if there is a way to back the sideplate off the pins somehow without wrecking the link... and what the heck kind of masterlink I actually have :) One missing a clip? or one where i need a special tool to rivet it...
You'd think that the item description would say something like "with riveted master link" or "with clip-type master link"
Ah well... Learn something new everyday :)
Thanks in advance for any help!
Feanor
Just to give my KDX-220 a bit more flair and mechanical soundness, I tried the other night to install a D.I.D. 520 VM x-ring chain and Renthal front and rear sprockets. Both sprockets were a snap to install and went in with no troubles at all, but the chain is another thing entirely!
Knowing nothing at the time of ordering about riveted master links vs. clips etc etc (and still knowing next to nothing about it) I went about taking off my old o-ring chain (which I have on the wall now as a spare and trying to put the DID on... I bought the motion pro chain breaker tool, which made taking the old chain off a breeze, but when I installed the new chain I pressed one side of the side plate on the master link on a little too far... and I have no idea how to "back it out" a smidge without destroying the masterlink.
Another thing that confuses me is that the master link came in a little plastic bag with the chain and included one sideplate with the pins already riveted in, 4 x-ring seals, the other press on side plate and a packet of seal grease... No rivets, no "clips" etc...
Am I missing pieces here? or is the masterlink I got a "rivet" type that has to have the ends of the axles squashed like I see on the other links? The pins that come thru the side plate have holes in the middle. Does a rivet go in there? If its a clip type that simply missing the clip then I am at a loss because there is no groove in the sides of the pins where the clip would slide in....
Kind of frustrating, though it is still a learning experience I can share with others, and though the chain was not cheap, I know at the most I am out the cost of a new master link should I need to destroy it to take it off...
Just desperate to find out if there is a way to back the sideplate off the pins somehow without wrecking the link... and what the heck kind of masterlink I actually have :) One missing a clip? or one where i need a special tool to rivet it...
You'd think that the item description would say something like "with riveted master link" or "with clip-type master link"
Ah well... Learn something new everyday :)
Thanks in advance for any help!
Feanor