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Tandem Talk / Re: Problem with eccentric
« Last post by Andyb1 on Today at 08:41:48 AM »As Matt has said, on our Raven Tours the bolts have pointy ends and are designed to dig into the EBB so will leave an indentation in the soft alloy. If small rotational adjustments of the EBB are made the indentations can become a groove and the eccentric is then not correctly locked.
On mine I can remove the bolts, look down the holes with a torch, and rotate the EBB to see where the next indentation is. I have been lucky as mine had been adjusted properly by the PO and the indentations were well spaced apart - so I have simply reused those indentations rather than make new ones.
I have found that the bolts can loosen off so mine are now drilled and lockwired (others use bands made from innertube). I also found that after 1500 miles in one position that the bolts needed to be wound in a touch further to take out a little looseness between the EBB and frame - the downward loads from cycling had pushed the bolts deeper into the EBB.
If you get new nuts welded on make sure they are fine thread M8, not standard M8 nuts.
Edited to add:
What I have written above is relevant to a Raven, looks like the Voyager may use a slightly different system with flat ended bolts??
On mine I can remove the bolts, look down the holes with a torch, and rotate the EBB to see where the next indentation is. I have been lucky as mine had been adjusted properly by the PO and the indentations were well spaced apart - so I have simply reused those indentations rather than make new ones.
I have found that the bolts can loosen off so mine are now drilled and lockwired (others use bands made from innertube). I also found that after 1500 miles in one position that the bolts needed to be wound in a touch further to take out a little looseness between the EBB and frame - the downward loads from cycling had pushed the bolts deeper into the EBB.
If you get new nuts welded on make sure they are fine thread M8, not standard M8 nuts.
Edited to add:
What I have written above is relevant to a Raven, looks like the Voyager may use a slightly different system with flat ended bolts??

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