ricobike
Wore out three sets of tires already!
Today's task was to figure out why the builtin kickstand on my Schwinn Collegiate rider was wobbly and not holding the bike up very well. This bike had seen a lot of use in it's day so I figured that the spring on the kickstand was worn out. Since I don't normally work on Lightweights, I didn't have a replacement kickstand in the stash, so I proceeded to disassemble it to replace the spring with one from a donor kickstand. The Schwinn service manual (Vol 2) has a pretty good section on how to remove the spring. Here's a link to rustjunkies thread to the kickstand section:
http://thecabe.com/forum/threads/schwinn-service-manual-volume-2.81579/page-3#post-508130
I replaced the spring, and it still had the same problem. Kickstand would wobble up and down when in either the up or down position. Looking closer at it, I could see that the pin that holds the spring in place was worn and not engaging the cam correctly. I replaced that pin with the pin from my donor kickstand and voila, problem was solved. I have a few bikes with similar problems so I'm pretty sure it's a common problem, but I couldn't find anything about it in searching around. Hence this thread. Hopefully it will help anyone having the same issues.
http://thecabe.com/forum/threads/schwinn-service-manual-volume-2.81579/page-3#post-508130
I replaced the spring, and it still had the same problem. Kickstand would wobble up and down when in either the up or down position. Looking closer at it, I could see that the pin that holds the spring in place was worn and not engaging the cam correctly. I replaced that pin with the pin from my donor kickstand and voila, problem was solved. I have a few bikes with similar problems so I'm pretty sure it's a common problem, but I couldn't find anything about it in searching around. Hence this thread. Hopefully it will help anyone having the same issues.