> Aaron Goldman wrote:
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> > Dirty30 Dillon wrote:
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> > You can widen your swingarm with just brute force, but you might kink
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> > the tube, and you are going to loose tire height clearance.
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> I'm a bit confused, what do you mean kink the tube? There's nothing on
> the wheel currently but I can't just shove it in, that hasn't worked.
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> Totally open to a brute force option, just looking for one that keeps
> the spread of the swingarm a bit even. Ideally I still want the wheel
> centered.
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> Hopefully that made sense? Sorry if I'm being confusing.
By tube, I mean the steel tubing that comprises your swingarm. Not the tube inside the tire.
My suggestion would be to mount the swingarm in a vice, build a cheap reference jig to gauge total movement from stock (piece of thick wire off the vice that you can gauge movement in either direction), and use a pipe to cold bend it out.
Even the method baird mentioned has high fallibility, given that the swingarm won't naturally spread evenly. Whichever leg is slightly weaker will spread first.