Well my new ones arrived today , but didn't want to just put them in without anything else !!!!

Been down the old bits of inner tube route and found bits of mashed up rubber when i took the back wheel out !!!

So got to thinking ......................OK i know its dangerous but needs must, seemsto me there's to much play in the cushes from new , hence the inner tube bits , alas these to wandered about , in my hub anyway !!

What about something thats going to fill the gaps but still allow a certain amont of movement !!!

Thats where this ideas come from

SILICONE

Both side of the hub have been well cleaned





New cushes fitted DRY



Applied the silicone along the top edges of the ally spacers so when the cushes were pushed on they'd take the silicone down with them.



As you can see it's ordinary house hold silicone and i repeated the procces on each ally section



Next i siliconed along the top edge of each cush drive so when the outer hub goes on it has the same effect as before





Here , not the best pics , but you get the idea , the outer hub seating into the base and silicone




Now , onlt time will tell

But the worst it can dois NOT WORK and the set silicone will peel out very easy !!

I've got about 5k kms left in the back tyre so you'll all have to wait for the prognoses !!!

Phil

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Nice, interested in the results but have a feeling the tensile strength of household silicon will be insufficient. On that note, love the idea and would like to see how a knife grade silicon like Sikaflex would hold up!!
Keen to see the results!
Matt

I was going to go for Sikaflex knowing full well it's the dogs ****** but if it didn't work it'd be a hell of a ***** to get out !!!

My idea with the silicone is that "hopefully" all the gaps are full and the cushes don't rattle about !!!

We'll see

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1st impressions on silicone cush add

Took the pig out today and can't put myfinger on it but it feels better !!!

OK i'd got used to the old cushes wearing down slowly and i obviously i have new cushes in with the silicone so all these are factors !!

The whole ride felt firmer and more responsive if that makes sence.

I'll put a couple of thou kms on it and drop the back wheel and take a look !!

On a side note found out what was rattleing !!!!! the clocks are dropping off Maroc kicks the sh1te out of your bike

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Howdo! Did this mod work at all?
Just bought an XTZ with 10k on the clock and the rubbers are well and truly worn! They were even put back in the wrong way around! Thinner one where the thick one should be.
Ordered a new set and am keen for this not to be another thing to think about all the time!

Regards Dave

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I am waiting to see how this works out too

I've got my rear wheel out at the minute (and swingarm) waiting for parts. I'll take shot of my rubbers when I get in tonight. They've got 2500 miles on them, which isn't far off your distance. They look worse than yours though...

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That'd be great Pleiades
Are going to try the silicone idea ? it worth it , cost next to nothing and is dead easy to do and UNDO

Thanks again �Phil

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My cush drive rubbers have prob only got about 500 miles on them. Im gonna try this silicone lark too. Just normal Silicone?