Please use a block of wood under the jack, bricks can crack and fall to pieces when you least expect it, be safe, always enjoy your video's, always interesting, to many people have no interest in learning even the bare minimum now days, I learnt when I was a kid helping my dad, surprising what you actually learn doing that.
All you do is put a jack under the stub axle of the front or under the cross shift of the A Frame had to replace my front wheel at the side Road on two occasions but it's not that hard with a little practice.
I am glad you covered this, I hit a pothole or rock this week and it must have blown my wheel bearing as now the front wheel is canted over by some degrees and it spun out on me badly almost flipped the bloody thing in true bicycle clips and brown trousers moment... These Dorset roads are horrendous for three wheelers as the inside track is usually neglected by the council, suspecting a rock as we went back to have a look in me uncle's motor and couldn't see a hole but found in the gully at side of road a fairly half brick sized lump of rock and suspicious that was the bugger that nuked me bearing O.o Just rebuilt the front suspension so up it has to go again with a new bearing :(
The point I was making was why not include the greasing of the kingpin bearings with your service of the front wheel bearing? As a former owner of Reliant three wheelers over the years, the kingpin was the issue on the front suspension that gave me more grief!
one thing that always bugged me, can you actually fit an alloy wheel to the front of one of these? Just with that centre stub been larger than the rear, I have seen later ones with alloys, that all.
Please use a block of wood under the jack, bricks can crack and fall to pieces when you least expect it, be safe, always enjoy your video's, always interesting, to many people have no interest in learning even the bare minimum now days, I learnt when I was a kid helping my dad, surprising what you actually learn doing that.
I was curious of what it would be like to change the front tire I figured it would be hard but from watching this doesn’t seem too bad great video!
All you do is put a jack under the stub axle of the front or under the cross shift of the A Frame had to replace my front wheel at the side Road on two occasions but it's not that hard with a little practice.
I am glad you covered this, I hit a pothole or rock this week and it must have blown my wheel bearing as now the front wheel is canted over by some degrees and it spun out on me badly almost flipped the bloody thing in true bicycle clips and brown trousers moment... These Dorset roads are horrendous for three wheelers as the inside track is usually neglected by the council, suspecting a rock as we went back to have a look in me uncle's motor and couldn't see a hole but found in the gully at side of road a fairly half brick sized lump of rock and suspicious that was the bugger that nuked me bearing O.o Just rebuilt the front suspension so up it has to go again with a new bearing :(
nice work buddy, nowte wrong with using a brick on one of these as they weight nowte
What about kingpin?
Well you can buy a kit Inc King Pin, from reliant Spares look them up on Google
The point I was making was why not include the greasing of the kingpin bearings with your service of the front wheel bearing? As a former owner of Reliant three wheelers over the years, the kingpin was the issue on the front suspension that gave me more grief!
one thing that always bugged me, can you actually fit an alloy wheel to the front of one of these? Just with that centre stub been larger than the rear, I have seen later ones with alloys, that all.
Yes you can fit an alloys to all wheels on this, the pitch is the same as a side mini ok 👍
Did it work ?
Yes it did, now runs smoothly, going to check the rear ones next and check the oil in the differential.