• Welcome to the new B.I.R.D. Forum. Please be sure to read the "New Member / New Registered ? Please Read" thread in the Coffee Shop. This contains some important information. To become a full member ( £5.90 a year ) simply click on your user name near the top on the right I hope you enjoy the new site ................ Jaws ( John )

Chain alignment tool

killerhaggis

Its only a flesh wound!!
Club Sponsor
What do peeps on here use?.. lost my laser thing and just wondered what alternatives are out there, I never trust the marks on the swinging arm.
 

mickeystitch

Quietly Watching
Read Only
got one of those little laser things, brought it off someone on here ( cant remember who ) @tu*

Workd a treat and guy over road did his ducati with it the other week, took it for a service and steeler said first time he had checked one that was spot on :-0)
 

Wolfie

Is a lunp
Explain please. I was gonna buy a tool but I already have string @tu*

centre od axle to end of swinging arm is the easy way,

or centre of axle to centre os swinging arm mounting bolt,

or centre of front and rear axles with front pointing straight ahead

peg hanger bolt to centre of axle.

two of the above together gets me good, then like lumpy adjust both adjusters by same amount and do quick measure again after wards. think my adjuster marks were out by 3mm one against the other.


easy visual check the handle bars are not straight whilst you are riding straight, if bars are pointing right then you need to tighten right adjuster or slacken left one to pull it back in line.

unless your frame is bent, then you are fecked what ever way you do it.
 

Centaur

Site Pedant
Club Sponsor
Line up the marks.

Then ride it and make sure it's steering straight. I've never had the marks out on a Honda.:-0)
 
G

g1948

Guest
I bought one of them little manual gauges, with the straight rod thingy off an auction site, £11 or so, haven't used it yet but have noticed my right handlebar is slightly off, compared to the left. Rides okay though and
I can take my hands off the bars no problem, though can't ride for another coupla weeks
 
M

masterofevil

Guest
Patronising Old Git

Then ride it and make sure it's steering straight. I've never had the marks out on a Honda.:-0)

I've have had Kwaks, Suzis, Yams, Hondas and Hinkley Triumphs over 25 years and they have all been 99.9 -100 % spot on as far as the alignment marks on the swing arm/adjusters go ! But I do have one of those laser adjusters and they do shine a lovely straight line from the rear sprocket along the chain to the front sprocket to give you a warm feeling after adjusting the chain !
 

CBRDEAN0

Registered User

ScottyUK

Filtering Through
Read Only
I have that one - good piece of kit

Cheaper here and in the UK - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KTM-Super...327655?hash=item1c5ce0e827:g:eKMAAOSwEeFU2LKV

That's the D-CAT and not the L-CAT - difference being a dot laser vs line laser. If you want a dot laser then this one is even cheaper:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Profi-SE-...id=100005&rk=2&rkt=6&mehot=ag&sd=140977339746

Is a line laser (approx £90 delivered) worth it compared with a dot laser at £33 delivered?

p.s. I've been looking at getting something like this too :)
 
Last edited:

DEG5Y

Been there, and had one
Club Sponsor
I had been watching the line laser as I would expect it to be a little less fiddly.

It would also come in handy at work whenever I have to lower myself to do a fitters job!
 

CBRDEAN0

Registered User
That's the D-CAT and not the L-CAT - difference being a dot laser vs line laser. If you want a dot laser then this one is even cheaper:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Profi-SE-...id=100005&rk=2&rkt=6&mehot=ag&sd=140977339746

Is a line laser (approx £90 delivered) worth it compared with a dot laser at £33 delivered?

p.s. I've been looking at getting something like this too :)

Ah - ok - I stand corrected.

Mine is the D-CAT dot laser and was around £30 in the jan sales last year.

The dot laser does the job just as well - very little wheel rotation needed to show the dot all the way up to the front sprocket
 

ramo

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I bought one of those ?32.99 ones,

good tool and easy to use, I don't find it fiddly at all @tu*
 

ScottyUK

Filtering Through
Read Only
I decided to splash out and got the line version. I justified it to myself ("man maths" at work on the fact I run a track bike and those wheels are in and out a lot more.

I adjusted the bird's chain today using the CAT and it made it a lot quicker and easier. I then used my old method to cross check and it all matched up. @tu*
 
Top