Minor Winter Project - installing suspension worth 1/3 of the bike

Papa_Complex · 04-08-2011, 06:57 AM

The forks get gutted this weekend. Hopefully my electric impact gun will be able to generate enough torque, to get the retaining bolts out of the fork bottoms. If not then I might have to make a trip to the local shop, and have them do that.

The pop can is on the end of the handlebars because that isn't a handlebar; it's a piece of conduit acting as a stand-in to keep the controls in place. During the week I pulled them so that I could replace them with a set of Renthal bars that I had to drill the holes for the switchgear locating pins in, then slapped a brace from a set of Hardy dirtbike bars on. The bars will go back on after the forks, just to make my life easier.

As an aside it always amazes me when I disassemble a brand new machine, and find things like the axles are completely dry. I realize that the bearings do the job of allowing the wheels to spin but, come on, what about corrosion and disassembly?!

04-08-2011, 06:57 AM	#11
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,150	The forks get gutted this weekend. Hopefully my electric impact gun will be able to generate enough torque, to get the retaining bolts out of the fork bottoms. If not then I might have to make a trip to the local shop, and have them do that. The pop can is on the end of the handlebars because that isn't a handlebar; it's a piece of conduit acting as a stand-in to keep the controls in place. During the week I pulled them so that I could replace them with a set of Renthal bars that I had to drill the holes for the switchgear locating pins in, then slapped a brace from a set of Hardy dirtbike bars on. The bars will go back on after the forks, just to make my life easier. As an aside it always amazes me when I disassemble a brand new machine, and find things like the axles are completely dry. I realize that the bearings do the job of allowing the wheels to spin but, come on, what about corrosion and disassembly?! __________________ "Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising" http://www.morallyambiguous.net/ Last edited by Papa_Complex; 04-08-2011 at 07:20 AM..