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Member since: 01/03/11
Its been almost 2 years since I last posted in this thread. In that time, the bike has basically just sat in the garage. I would fire it up once in awhile to boot around the yard, but nothing major. This past weekend I had a chance to go to an offroad ... more »
I was able to get the seat foam and cover mounted finally. This was by far one of the most challenging covers I have ever done. It must be due to the fact that there is a tank protector now, yet there is no pan under that section to pull it tight. I
Agreed on the newer style seat foam! Speaking of, I attempted to mount the seat foam and cover last night but forgot about a couple seat repairs. The seat bracket mounts to a couple flimsy (and trashed) tabs that reside inside the seat pan. I took some
Back with the grinder and welder. I ended up cutting the tops of each subframe rail and moving them down almost 2 inches! My welding and grinding was adequate. I think its strong enough for my needs...plus reinforced with the 1/2 rods in each tube so
I ran a 1/2 bar in each frame rail, used a torch and straightened the subframe. I got it pretty well lined up and installed the seatpan, foam and fender to have a look. Yeah I would say it is still pretty tweaked. I know the ergonomic are whack, but
First batch of parts. Picked up some plastic and also a seat foam and cover. This is the safety seat foam, which goes up on the tank a bit. I figured it would be best to mock up the seat, plastic, airbox, etc... because I'm confident that my seat rails
I took advantage of the nice weather to roll the bike outside and tackle the graphics. I had to cut the larger graphic in half and really didnt want to screw it up.
Got the forks installed, gaurds installed, new front brake pads, air filter back on and suddenly I thought it was ready to fire up. Last thing to do was to change the oil. Found out I cant get my front skid plate bolts out with the pipe installed. So
Finally got the WP oil seals and dust boots.
Did you pull it straight out...did it put up a fight? Curious, I'm getting ready to go through that myself. Micah
Sweet build! What's the story on the gas tank boss extraction? I'm interested in what you did there. Micah
I did not take off the fork lugs. I would think that they unthread...with the use of heat. As for the shock reservoir, it unthreads. If you go to my youtube channel I did a video showing the tool i made from an angle grinder spanner wrench. Micah
Thanks for that tip. I dont know how the Chinese spring can cause the slide to get stuck though. The cap needs to compress the spring before it can even be threaded. Also, have you noticed inaccuracies between the same size jets chinese vs keihin?
They are drilled "black tape covering them." The drilling profile looks very nice too.
Very little progress
I really did consider swapping the front end. Or at least upgrading to a newer generation of the 4054's, which offer better parts and performance. Hell, these first gen's don't even have compression or rebound adjustments. But, I thought the bike would ... more »
Almost a month later, still no fork parts. Just got notice that they should be shipped this week. The inner and outer bushings are discontinued. The "inner" bushing for lack of a better word is very specialized. It is the part that you see in the cover
A quick and dirty test showed correct ohm range for one of the stator poles - the other flashes numbers and then goes dead (to number 1). I'm guessing that's the problem, but not sure. After finding the crank wobble, I have now decided on a full engine
I picked up a new project for when the ATK gets finished up. This wasn't really on my radar, but it was fairly local to me and I had never actually seen one. I thought if I didn't pick this up, I would probably never have the opportunity again (unless
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