Paging anyone with a 955 Sprint + a grease question

Started working on the post-ambush repairs last night. Removed the
bodywork to gain access, removed and then dismantled the hangers. All
good so far (only one pingfuckit but that was recovered). The exhaust
made contact with the tyre briefly when the incident occurred but
bounced back a little - the clearance being I would say < 1cm.

Can anyone take a ruler out and tell me what the gap between the can and
the tyre should be? Is it OK to grab the can and simply pull it away
until there is sufficient clearance? It doesn't feel like it wants to
bend - it is very springy and i am concerned that if I pull too hard,
something will fracture and I'll be looking at a bigger repair bill.
Obviously it has been bent in one direction, all I want to do is to
restore it to its original.

Re grease - the footpegs and a couple of other items which are connected
to the hangars appear to have some form of grease, so clearly a quck
smear on rebuild is a good thing, is there any particular kind I should
be looking for?

cheers

 

A decent waterproof grease
Castrol LM etc.

 

This isn't the most scientific measurement ever taken, but the gap
between rear tyre and the innermost point of the exhaust on my RS is
roughly 6 cm.

The rear brake caliper is mounted directly between the two, though -
in order to get as close as 1cm, the can would need to be pressing
right against the caliper, or even bent round it. So perhaps your ST
is put together differently...

Good luck getting it back in shape, anyway.

 

It may not actually have bent anything at all. The whole can assembly
is designed to swivel round, such that it can sit in a high-ish normal
position or a much lower one if you have the Triumph panniers fitted.
IIRC this is a single clamp on the pipe some way in front of the can
itself, so it may simply be a case of loosening this and swivelling
the can assembly back round to what looks like a reasonable position.

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Ah good point. Though the pillion hangers are rigid so the height
adjustment as far as I can tell isn't variable (though I could be
missing something but it seems like a pretty rigid arrangement).

 

Hmmm... mine's 3cm after a bit of tugging.. more effort required.

 

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