Moto Guzzi V85 TT - Service manual > Steering bearing

Adjusting play

• Remove the upper steering yoke
• Remove the safety washer (1)

• Unscrew and remove the upper ring nut (2), using the special tool

• Remove the rubber gasket (3)

• Adjust by tightening the lower ring nut to the prescribed torque
• With the front wheel lifted off the ground, turn the steering all the way right and left three or four times
• Check the tightening torque of the lower ring nut

NOTE HANDLEBAR TURNING RESISTANCE SHOULD BE 250 +- 150 g IN BOTH DIRECTIONS

• Refit the rubber gasket (3)
• Mount the upper ring nut (2), manually tightening it more than 90º so that the necks of both ring nuts correspond with one another
• Correctly reposition the safety washer (1)

Disassembling

• Remove the lower steering yoke

UPPER STEERING BEARING

• Remove the upper seat (1) of the upper steering bearing

• Remove the upper steering bearing (2)

• Using a generic bearing puller, remove the lower seat of the steering bearing as illustrated in the figure

LOWER STEERING BEARING

• Remove the lower steering bearing (4)

• Remove the lower seat (5) of the lower steering bearing

• Using a generic bearing puller, remove the upper seat of the lower steering bearing as indicated in the figure

Assembling

LOWER STEERING BEARING

• Using the appropriate punch, insert the upper seat of the lower steering bearing in the point indicated in the figure

• Insert the lower seat (1) of the lower steering bearing

• Insert the lower steering bearing (2)

UPPER STEERING BEARING

• Using the appropriate punch, insert the lower seat of the upper steering bearing as illustrated in the figure

• Insert the upper steering bearing (3)

• Insert the upper seat (4) of the upper steering bearing

Shock absorbers

Removing

• Blocking the nut (1)
• Undo and remove the screw (2)

• Undo and remove the screw (3)
• Retrieve the bushing (4)

• Remove the shock absorber (5)

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