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Rear Rim is warped!?!?!?

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Rear Rim is warped!?!?!?

Jack
This is the last issue that I noticed before getting my motorcycle insured, and safetyied and on the road.  I noticed that my rear wheel has a slight wobble in it when it is spinning on the center stand.  It is not just the rim that has a wobble, but the disc brake and sprocket all move at the same time.  

It is a 82 CB750F with the black reverse Comstar rims.  Can this be fixed, or am I looking at tracking down another rim.  I noticed that there are nuts on the wheel that hold it together, but it looks like there is a speacial tool required to tighten or loosen these nuts.  I have take the wheel off again, and clean behind the sproket where the rubber boots go inside the hub, and regreased the bearings, and triple checked that the wheel was lined up correctly.  

Any help or advise would be very much appreciated.
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sgtslag
Do you have a run-out gauge?  This will show you if it is warped, or not.  Aside from that, I would imagine the Comstar will need to be replaced if it is warped -- I thought they were riveted at the factory, but I could be completely wrong...  Best of luck.  Cheers!
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1983 Kawasaki 440 LTD Belt Drive (sold, 2011)
1993 Kawasaki Voyager XII
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Jack
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Will the rear rim from a cb900F fit the same??
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If everything is moving/wobbling (wheel, rotor, sprocket) your bearings are bad. Can you grab the wheel, and shake it? Does it have play? How did the bearings feel when you had the wheel off?
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There is no play in the wheel at all.  The bearings felt fine when I had the wheel off.  
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There were problems with these Comstar rims. They were defective.
Better fix them or get rid of them.

Say wheel not rim.

The problem is that the rivets on the SPOKES where they attach to the rim come loose.
That is why the entire hub, sprocket etc., are crooked.
On a Roadstar Adventure.
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If the rivets on the spokes came loose, why would the rotor, and sprocket move? They are mounted to the hub, and cush drive.
TOOLS
Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."

1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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Lucky 1
Tools1...I am only offering a reason that I was told about. It is very hard to tell anything over the internet as you know.
It is just something to be looked at. The connections of the spokes to the rim.
I do know Honda had trouble with those style of rims.
On a Roadstar Adventure.
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