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5/15/2017 10:26am
Picked up this bad boy yesterday afternoon and tore it down immediately once I got home! Rode it around and steering bearings were completely shot! And that's not where it ended. Linkage, swing arm and shock bearings are just as bad.
This is where I ended the night.
Super excited to get this thing going as I hope to have it prepared to get the frame, sub frame, and swing arm ready for powder coat tomorrow. Forks and shock body will be getting hard coat anodizing as well (fork anodize is in rough shape now).
Any suggestions on what to watch out for on this build? And any retro fitting parts from the RMZs to these bikes? Thanks!
The Shop
On a side note, check your carb slide. Mine came broken. Suzuki wants like $120 so I bought a whole used card on Ebay and it came with a slide that was starting to crack. I will post a pic of the slide in my build thread today or tomorrow.
And the CRF front brakes!
And the radiators cleaned up!
And the motor all put together!
And finally got the frame back from powder coating!
Going to start assembling tomorrow and see where we are at from there! Excited to finally get this thing back together! Also got a call tonight saying my suspension should be done by Monday so pretty excited for that as well!
With your cracked linkage, were you trying to press them out from one side to the other? because the oem linkage is shouldered on the inside and the bearing outer race presses in upto that shoulder, you have to pull them out from each side. I put my linkage in the oven for half an hour and they came out relatively easily after that.
with your bolts its very time consuming to clean each one, I sent all the engine hardware, axles, and some of the bigger more expensive bolts and fitting away to be re plated, not sure about where you are but for my it was around $1 per part on average. Buy yourself a Bolt (thats the brand) full kit and replace the ones you can and send the rest off for replating
Pit Row
That brake set up owes me over 700 with the Aussie dollar vs US dollar rate at the time and I bought the wrong bracket the first time around due to poor researching on my behalf. if you can't find anyone that can do it near you Its not too hard to piece together a zinc plating kit, the hard part is getting the sequence correct to get a good outcome but nothing a bit of practice and set up couldn't fix, theres probably a how to video on you tube. some of those bigger items on the bike are pretty expensive to replace, I paid $40 just for the sump plug.
By the way the correct combo is YZF (like 98 - current) disc and RMZ/KXF (current) calliper bracket
And just picked up the suspension!
The crf caliper does not work so I will need to figure out what I want to do there...
I love the way those fmf pipes look! I'm gonna dig into figuring out brakes this week along with getting the final touches figured out. Super excited to finally be able to rip this thing....and also, had to start it to calm my anxiety
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