Hi all, just tinkering with my 2020 Panigale v4s. Have removed the front wheel, just looking through the workshop manual on instructions on how to re-install and getting a bit confused.com. The thing that confuses me is that the wheel axle will pass through completely the right-hand fork leg, I was expecting it to butt up on a shoulder. So my question is when you tighten everything up, there’s nothing actually clamping up the fork legs to the axel, from side to side. I know the fork legs are clamped around the axle but what causes the axle to be tight between the fork legs? I.e. there could be a bit of side to side slop between the wheel, spacers and fork legs. The manual has this order of installing 1. Slide in axle with spacers etc. 2. Partly tighten axle bolt. 3. Fit brake callipers fully to full torque. (this seems too early to me) I would have thought you would only fit loose at this stage. 4. Bolt up all four axle clamp bolts to full torque. 5. Tighten axle bolt nut to full torque (63Nm) 6. Loosen all clamp bolts 7. Bounce suspension 8. Tighten clamps back to full torque. During this whole process, what ensures the fork legs are tight on the spacers? I know I’m over complicating things, but just want to make sure I do it wright. Don’t want any issues at some silly speed.
it does butt up against a spacer that butts up against a bearing that butts up against another spacer then bearing then spacer then inside the ns fork leg, which puts it right over to the nearside leaving the wheel in the correct position. if in doubt id get someone that knows what they are doing.
I pondered the same thing when reinstalling my Hyper front wheel at the weekend. Your step 2 is key - this gets everything up against the ns fork leg as AndyB says above. Agree about the order of tightening the caliper bolts. I nipped mine up, then Loctite/torqued them once the spindle nut & clamps were done. The fork assembly is much more rigid at that stage & it felt much better.
