Howdy all,
Just thought I would throw this out there and make it semi official. Saturday or Sunday 16th or 17th November, (or both if you feel inclined :drinks:). Time for another get together for those wanting to. I've got a few things to do, fork rebuild, chain and sprockets, carb cleanout, and after Ken and Darrans prompting thought it would be more fun to make it a group activity. Once I move the caravan out and the trailer theres plenty of undercover workspace, 9mtr x6mtr carport attached to a 12mtr x 6mtr shed, with another adjoining carport, so plenty of room.
If theres any specialty tools that anyone needs, you might want to bring it. But even if theres nothing you need to do to your bike come over anyway, pitch a tent in the backyard and stay over, whatever goes.
https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=18-26+Teresa+Drive,+Munruben,+Queensland&hl=en&ll=-27.741505,153.032282&spn=0.003276,0.005166&sll=-27.741296,153.032309&sspn=0.001647,0.002583&oq=18-26+teresa&t=h&hnear=18-26+Teresa+Dr,+Munruben+Queensland+4125&z=18
Just let me know and I'll get things organised, :drinks:
excellent ray, cant wait, what are you thinking of for a good start time? ken
Anytime after 7.00am is fine by me Ken. Also I can't promise a shed full of classics like The General spoiled us with last time. But, I might be able to get Neville from across the road to bring his Yam GTS1000 over for show and tell, (only 20 bought into Oz, think there are only 6 still around). 1 is at the Haigslea museum, :good2:
How did you Know Ray?
That's my only free weekend till mid December.
Not anymore, I'll pen it into the diary.
Now to get an order off to Randy.
I'm thinking of a fork rebuild myself and a spin on oil filter and duel pods and and.... :wacko2:
I best bring a tent.
:drinks:
Darran
Thats the start of me holidays will be off to the Snowies then,
I'm a no show then.... :dash1:
I'll come down to help supervise Ray, :biggrin: but can't make it till late morning on Saturday. What day is everyone else planning on coming as I'll fit in to suit. Won't be allowed out 2 days in a row on my own and stay in the good books.
Tony.
Quote from: Bones on October 25, 2013, 04:07:12 AM
What day is everyone else planning on coming as I'll fit in to suit. .
Tony.
Saturday works for me
Ray?
Darran
Yep, Saturday the 16th it is then. Book it in lads :good2:
Howdy everyone, could I get a roll call on who is coming over next Saturday for some Manshed Therapy? Just have to get the dancing girls etc organised :good2:
see you there ray, ken
I'll be there Ray, Wouldn't want to miss the dancing girls. :yahoo:
Tony.
See you Sat Ray.
Harvy
Mark me down, I'll be there. Haven't got anything to do but I'll have a coffee and a chat.
I will be there. Need some help with undoing the damper rod bolt bolt and replacing the fork seals. Will have seals and ATF on hand.
Is there anything else I could bring down? Food, drink, more dancing girls ?
Good stuff Leon, be good to catch up again.
Hey Stu, I just watched a ewe-tube video about fork seal removal etc, it was recommended giving the dampener bolt a go with the fork leg still assembled. He said the pressure still exerted on the bottom rod held it in place while the bolt was cracked open a little, makes sense to me. I'm sure between us all we'll work it out though.
Heres a couple of great how to videos that I've found to do with fork dissasembly, cleared up a LOT of the uncertainty I had with this job yet to be done, :drinks:
Complete fork removal/dissasembly/rebuild, very easy to follow How to change fork seals in traditional (right way up) Forks. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TCYIEcDcts#ws)
And heres the hint about the dampener rod bolt Replace your fork seals - dismantling the forks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0p2OH6FmI#)
Ooops I forgot, better go and get some 5 weight fork oil, :good2: I have a brand new fork seal driver too that will help things along. I'll have some food and cold drinks on hand, if theres anything in particular you'd like to cook up for lunch ( I'm all out of Marinated emu fillets) just bring it along. :mocking:
Quote from: stua1959 on November 09, 2013, 01:24:10 AM
I will be there. Need some help with undoing the damper rod bolt bolt and replacing the fork seals. Will have seals and ATF on hand.
Is there anything else I could bring down? Food, drink, more dancing girls ?
More dancing girls wouldn't go astray Stu. brunette, maybe a redhead for a change....
I will bring the Allen key bizzo for the damper rod bolt that you can use with either a ratchet wrench or rattle gun. Can bring that too if you want it
Have you got an old broom handle Ray we could use for reassembly, I used that for my fork seal change, worked a treat.
Tony.
I should have something on hand Tony, although looking at the vids we shouldn't need it, they make it look easy, :yes:
It depends Ray if your forks have been done before or not. Mine had new seals put in long before I got it and I had a hell of a time getting the damper bolts out because they were locktighted in.
That was actually the hardest thing to do, once they were out the rest was plain sailing.
Tony.
Mmm, ok. Yeah my seals were last done in 2001 at City Yamaha, so I know they are well overdue. Should be fun.
Hey guys, the damper rod has a 12pt 27mm (1 1/8") hex socket in the top.
While a broomstick may work, it is pretty easy to make a "proper" tool to hold the damper rod from turning.
If you can find a bolt with a 27mm head and weld the threaded part to a socket so you can just use extensions and a rachet handle, that would be ideal. OR a 3/4" bolt should have a 1 1/8" head, so weld that to a socket.
OR jam either bolt into a piece of pipe and dent the pipe to hold it in place and use ViceGrips on the other end of the pipe.
Have fun :-)
Be careful that the constabulary don't consider any tools you are carrying to be weapons.
My fork cap is a 6 point, I wonder if they changed over the years. I also hear that the real axial nut works in a pinch to the caps off....
Monkey,
The fork cap is either a 6pt recess or a 6pt raised hex depending on the year.
So, for the early years the rear axle nut will work.
I was talking about the damper rod (where the RPM fork valves sit) in the fork lowers.
The tool I was describing is to keep that damper rod from turning while you unscrew the 10mm socket head bolt from the bottom of the forks.
Arnie
Quote from: Arnie on November 09, 2013, 08:43:22 AM
Monkey,
The fork cap is either a 6pt recess or a 6pt raised hex depending on the year.
So, for the early years the rear axle nut will work.
I was talking about the damper rod (where the RPM fork valves sit) in the fork lowers.
The tool I was describing is to keep that damper rod from turning while you unscrew the 10mm socket head bolt from the bottom of the forks.
Arnie
Here is some misc front fork pictures. For the fork top cap and the top of the dampener inside the fork of my 1990 FJ, I also use a 18mm bolt (has a 27mm head) I welded a junk 3/8 inch drive socket on to it. The bolt was 3" long but that's not critical. The bottom of the fork I use a 10mm hex socket.
The last picture is how I disassemble a fork by myself using a vice to hold a drive wrench. Hope it helps. This is a 1990 FJ fork.
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George
Please, do my a favour in order to help me in my FZR/FJ fork conversion: measure the damper unit length, to compare with the FZR damper unit
More details here
http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=10309.0 (http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=10309.0)
Thanks
Great info, thanks Arnie and George. On my '92 the actual top fork caps are easy to get off, the bottom damper rod Allen bolt may be the one that causes issues, but on the day I don't think we'll have any problems. I think that video that shows cracking the bottom Allen bolt with the forks still assembled and under pressure has some merit, I'll be trying that first. :drinks:
LB and I will be there
Missed out on getting my order into Randy on time. So won't be doing my forks. :dash1:
Will bring my Monkey made fork tool and carbtune down with me.
See ya Saturday
Darran
Sounds good Darran, I forgot to ask you the other day if LB was coming along.
I'm going to pick up a new bench vise with aluminium inserts on Thursday, the 40 year old narrow thing Alenas dad gave me ages ago is a bit small for fork work :smile:
Quote from: X-Ray on November 09, 2013, 03:46:38 PM
Great info, thanks Arnie and George. On my '92 the actual top fork caps are easy to get off, the bottom damper rod Allen bolt may be the one that causes issues, but on the day I don't think we'll have any problems. I think that video that shows cracking the bottom Allen bolt with the forks still assembled and under pressure has some merit, I'll be trying that first. :drinks:
Try that first. Most likely you will still need to remove the top cap and have a second person hold the dampener with the 27mm hex tool (18mm bolt head) while you loosen the bottom 10mm hex.
For Alf, my front forks are already back in the bike. Hopefully one of the OZ group will measure the dampener length for you. :good2:
George
If you have a "rattle gun" (pneumatic impact wrench) you will have a much easier time getting that 10mm socket head cap screw out of the bottom of the forks. Even a broomstick will usually work to hold the damper rod from turning. Without the "rattle gun" you'll need the tool George and I've been talking about.
(Thanks George for the pics)
Arnie
:dash2: :dash2: Bugger, I was thinking it was 23rd Nov & just promised someone I would do a job for them sat. morning. I'll still try to get there by midday. Paul (Burleigh) :rofl2:
All I want to do is an oil & Filter change. I have a K&N filter, but does anyone have a recommendation on engine oil ?? :scratch_one-s_head:
Midday is fine Paul, and I think is it Cadtrol 4T I've been using for a while now, works well. You can even use the lift table for the oil change, makes it nice and easy.
Don't start the "oil war" again :-)
I use and recommend any of the Diesel CH-4 15-40W oils.
Castrol, Shell, and Valvolene as well as Penrite, Nulon, etc are all good choices.
Arnie
Quote from: YFJ-12 on November 13, 2013, 04:43:50 AM
:dash2: :dash2: Bugger, I was thinking it was 23rd Nov & just promised someone I would do a job for them sat. morning. I'll still try to get there by midday. Paul (Burleigh) :rofl2:
All I want to do is an oil & Filter change. I have a K&N filter, but does anyone have a recommendation on engine oil ?? :scratch_one-s_head:
hay ray, hows it going mate? we sure had some rain tonight here at brighton, anyway heres a question or 2 for you, the forecast for manshed day to the best of my knowledge is some showers with maybe a storm or 2, similar to today, i just dont want to be wondering if im going to get caught out in it? ,yeah i know,,,, im a soft cock, anyway these manshed days are 1 of the highlights of my miserable existence and i enjoy them immensely but i hate the uncertainly that goes with this weather at the moment, if i pull the pin at 7am sat morning , you'll have to be gentle with me, , anyway fingers crossed, ken....
I have an idea Ken that Sat morning will be perfect just like it is now, maybe get a little shower through the day, plenty of cover, all will be good. :good2:
Theres also a massive deck to chill on for lunch etc.
excellent ray, its beautifull outside here, 1st real good rain we've had here in awhile and everything is washed, even took the car out in it for 20 minutes for a clean, , se ya
Ray, I wont be coming down now. My fork seals didnt turn up and I dont want to ride it any more than I have to and get oil all over my new brake pads. Hope u all have a great day and will catch up next time
Stu
Quote from: ken65 on November 14, 2013, 08:22:21 AM
hay ray, hows it going mate? we sure had some rain tonight here at brighton, anyway heres a question or 2 for you, the forecast for manshed day to the best of my knowledge is some showers with maybe a storm or 2, similar to today, i just dont want to be wondering if im going to get caught out in it? ,yeah i know,,,, im a soft cock, anyway these manshed days are 1 of the highlights of my miserable existence and i enjoy them immensely but i hate the uncertainly that goes with this weather at the moment, if i pull the pin at 7am sat morning , you'll have to be gentle with me, , anyway fingers crossed, ken....
Well Ken
What do you reckon?
Going to take a chance and live a little :good2:
We are heading off at 7
Darran & LB
No worries Stu, it's cloudy here but nothing to worry about.
hey darren , lucky i rolled the dice,
dry as a bone both ways,
as always good to catch up with you bunch, ,
ken
Ken, you and Harv really should have stayed, you missed on helluva hail show :shok:. I'll do a write up later, going to have a shower to get rid of the stinky old fork oil smell. :rofl2:
hay ray, were they the size of golf balls? anyway i would have loveD to have stayed longer but Harvy made me leave,,,, hehe, seriously though it was perfect timing leaving when we did, ,, here's the thing , we could see these " you are dead if you get caught in these storms," but guess what , ? we just soldiered on and all was well, hardly a drop,,, but i have to admit , poor old harvy was getting cut off left right and centre by nitwits not looking where they were going, .. anyway ,, were's the next manshed thing ?
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Glad to hear all you lucky guys didn't get clobbered by the TENNIS BALL sized (according to ABC.net.au) hailstones. Those could hurt!.
Is this another example of beautiful one day, perfect the next? :-)
Arnie
Quote from: ken65 on November 16, 2013, 04:42:30 AM
hay ray, were they the size of golf balls? anyway i would have loveD to have stayed longer but Harvy made me leave,,,, hehe, seriously though it was perfect timing leaving when we did, ,, here's the thing , we could see these " you are dead if you get caught in these storms," but guess what , ? we just soldiered on and all was well, hardly a drop,,, but i have to admit , poor old harvy was getting cut off left right and centre by nitwits not looking where they were going, .. anyway ,, were's the next manshed thing ?
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I don't know how you and Harvy managed to dodge those storms Ken, but you would NOT want to be getting clobbered with these. The noise on the tin roof was deafening.(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/DSC_0321_zps5651d8a6.jpg)(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/DSC_0326_zps3d89c1be.jpg)
Anyway, Thanks Ray for having the Manshed day at your place, you've got a great setup there, plenty of room and all the gear. You'll have to let us know how your forks are once their back on the bike. A few pics.
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Here's one of the damper rod length for Alf
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It was a great day,hail storm and all, and look forward to the next one.
Tony.
Once again I had an interesting 'man shed therapy' day. First off I got lost on the way and almost ended up at Beaudesert before I realised that I'd overshot the turn off. Then when I finally did manage to locate X-ray's sprawling country estate I made an embarrassing and undignified entry as my 3XW rolled forward off the side stand on a slight downhill and fell onto her left side snapping the clutch lever, cracking the fairing in two spots near the left indicator, scratching my new left side 1250 Bandit mirror and scratching the left side engine guard bar. Oh well; a few cosmetic blemishes which I'll fix pretty quick. Then caught up with the crew of top notch FJ 'mechanics' assembled in the spacious and well equipped workshop and over the next few hours I mostly watched with complete and utter amazement as a number of highly technical and difficult procedures where completed on a couple of bikes. We broke for a bar-b-que lunch on what could only be described as a massive entertainment deck built to house 30 to 50 people in comfort while overlooking a glittering swimming pool and wildlife corridor. And not long after lunch we were hit with that 'storm' with hail. As the photos show, the hail was pretty big and with thousands of them hitting the tin roof of the big shed and the adjoining carport the noise was deafening and it went on for a long time; perhaps 20 minutes or more. After the storm and a quick check for damage, the mechanics were back into their arduous work, ripping the forks off x-ray's bike and doing their full reconditioning magic. So, as I mentioned at the start, "I had an interesting 'man shed therapy' day. Many thanks to the boys and a big special thanks to X-ray and Mrs X-ray for opening their wonderful home and providing great hospitality to a motley FJ crew.
Real sorry I couldn`t be there Ray. Great Pics and obviously a great day! Nice report Stainsey though sad ta hear of your Mishap...I did ask for a bit of rain to cool things down on the Concrete Trent (Little Adventure) laid on Friday...I forgot about tha different degrees of "Cool!" :sorry:
Thanks everyone who could make it over, made a couple of jobs for me much easier. Was a fun day, got the new chain on with Harvys help :good2: and Darran whacked on in the corner, I mean whacked on his new Spin on filter mod plus oil change. :biggrin: Had a nice little sausage sizzle for lunch, (thanks chef Ken), then we headed back to the shed to tear apart my forks. Ken and Harv headed home at this time, (really should have stayed for the ice show!), Horse turned up on his KLE and before I knew it Leon had the brakes off, front wheel off, then the forks were off. Took a bit of force to get the bottom dampener rod bolts undone, rattle gun, (thanks Tony), then socket on a bar, then back to the rattle gun, phew. While one fork leg was in the vice, Tony HAD to ask if there was any oil in the leg, Trent pumped the leg just as the bolt shot out, and out with that bolt came the evil grey sludge that once was pristine fork oil. :bad:
I took the opportunity to remove the surface rust that was on the upper fork tubes with some fine wet and dry sprayed with kero, worked a treat. We popped in the new Racetech springs, RPM valves, bushes and seals, (couple of delays getting the slider bush seated), and after Darran and Trent calculated the required spacer length plus required oil level, both forks were better than new. :drinks:
The remaining crew left after that, and I walked back into my foul smelling shed, (rancid oil really does stink the place up, :lol:), and decided bolting things back together could wait till the next day. Didn't take long to get her back together next morning although I haven't completely finished as I'm waiting a couple of days for the Araldite to dry on one front guard tab that had broken off. Then I'll go for a ride and see how these rebuilt/modded forks go, should be good. But really, thanks guys for coming over and making it a fun day, sorry everyone couldn't make it, (I didn't think you would make it up Paul after seeing the black cloud of destruction heading towards the G/Coast), and thanks Baldy for the phone call mid afternoon, we got there in the end :good2:
An eager crowd including Leela watched surgery on Darrans FJ
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Plenty of space, although the sun didn't stay out for long
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Draining out the black stuff
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Some of the ice rocks that smashed all over the place, the videos I took are deafening
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Forks off
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Darran hard at work
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The remaining Manshed crew leaving, :cray:
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Hey fellas, come back, NOW WHAT??
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More or less back together the next day
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Heres an interesting one. I forgot to point out this little group of seats I had out under the gazebo. These were part of the seating at Festival Hall in Brisbane, and we managed to grab them at an auction before they pulled it down. Underneath a couple of the seats is rock hard chewing gum, could have been stuck there by a screaming teenager when the Beatles toured in 1964, who knows! They are as uncomfortable as hell though!
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Quote from: X-Ray on November 17, 2013, 01:57:44 AM
THeres an interesting one. I forgot to point out this little group of seats I had out under the gazebo. These were part of the seating at Festival Hall in Brisbane, and we managed to grab them at an auction before they pulled it down. Underneath a couple of the seats is rock hard chewing gum, could have been stuck there by a screaming teenager when the Beatles toured in 1964, who knows! They are as uncomfortable as hell though!
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That`s benign! did it lose it`s flavour?
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Here's one of the damper rod length for Alf
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It was a great day,hail storm and all, and look forward to the next one.
Tony.
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Thank you thank you :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
Bit by bit I collect all the info to my FZR/FJ fork conversion
An eager crowd including Leela watched surgery on Darrans FJ
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Hey.....I've never seen a Kangaroo with that kind of coat b4......do you need a special license to own one? COOOOOOOL :good2:
gday ray, forgot to say a big thanks for the day, nice place you have , everything a bloke could ever want, now all you need is the IT490 to go with the fj, have to admit , as exciting as the hail storm would have been,, im glad i missed it, also i have to say i've never seen hail that big before. you wouldnt last long on the bike in one of them, you'd get pelted beyond recognition.
Come over any time Ken, no probs at all. Hey that IT490 I was watching on Ebay from the bike importers down at Tweed Hds sold for $5000.00 :shok:
gday ray, their starting to go up in price alright, id be happy with either a 465 or 490 but i have to admit their both more than i could comfortable handle, before i got old, big and fat i thought the 175 was awesome,, anyway i'll have one soon fingers crossed, the main problem im finding is most of them need some sort of resto or top unrestored condition are out of my price range, having said that the longer we put it off the more pain, ken
Ohhhh if I came into some money! http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Yamaha-it465-82-tidy-bike-runs-perfect-suit-yz490-cr500-kx500-pe400-buyer-/121208792756?pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item1c389b66b4 (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Yamaha-it465-82-tidy-bike-runs-perfect-suit-yz490-cr500-kx500-pe400-buyer-/121208792756?pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item1c389b66b4)
This mob import them, has a mint 2004 KX500 listed at..............$10000.00!!!! :shok:
Want to help me rob a bank Ken? (oops, can you still say that these days??) http://robzridez.com.au/ (http://robzridez.com.au/) He has some very tasty bikes on his site, :smile:
I rode an IT 465 one time at a get together somewhere, and all it wanted to do was stand on it's back wheel. :shok: It was road registered, a lot of fun, but scary at the same time. I'd say it was scarier than the 500 kwaka triple I had at the time.
Too right Tony, those big bore two strokes of yesterday are beasts of things. One day...... One day....... :good2:
Finally got to go for a half hour ride this weekend, mainly to check the new chain and the rebuilt forks. All felt great, the front end was nice and stable, the RPM valves plus springs etc worked nicely, especially under brakes. At first I was thinking that the springs were too hard, mainly because I was used to having soggy old Progressive springs etc, but with the valves, the harder you go, the better it feels, very happy :good2:
Sometime between now and March I'll give the carbs a good clean out.
X-ray, it's great to hear that your front end mods worked and you are happy with them. I finally got some time to properly check out the left side damage on my 3XW from when it rolled forward off the side at Manshed Therapy. The end of the clutch lever was snapped off; near new spare fitted. Lots of cracks and fractures to the inside and outside of the left side of the ABS plastic fairing so I'll be ripping it off soon for some repairs. The Renntec bar was deeply gouged and scratched; sanded, bogged, sanded and painted. But the drop pushed the Renntec bar into the bottom of the timing cover and split it so now I'm hunting for a timing cover.
Stainsey, Did you notice before your spill if there was any clearance between the cover and the bar. When I put mine on and tightened up, the bar was touching the cover, so I put a small piece of steel under the u shaped bracket to give about 5mm of clearance.
Quote from: Bones on November 30, 2013, 01:11:56 AM
Stainsey, Did you notice before your spill if there was any clearance between the cover and the bar. When I put mine on and tightened up, the bar was touching the cover, so I put a small piece of steel under the u shaped bracket to give about 5mm of clearance.
Yes mate, there was a few millimetres of gap but I must confess that I didn't give it a good hit or shove to see if the gap closed and there was contact, as obviously there was from the fall. Oh well, we live and learn. The pics of your bike with its new bars looks pretty good but you really do needs a lower cowl. Right now I have the fairing off and when I go on days off in a few days I'm going to have a crack at fixing the fresh fairing damage and a few old cracks that have been around for ages, but it's been a while since I've used either my Dremel or the Plastex. I ordered some stuff from Randy recently and he added a timing cover into the package which should turn up in a few days. Engine bar has been sanded and painted numerous times and is back to normal look.
Quote from: Stainesy on December 07, 2013, 04:49:46 AM
Quote from: Bones on November 30, 2013, 01:11:56 AM
Stainsey, Did you notice before your spill if there was any clearance between the cover and the bar. When I put mine on and tightened up, the bar was touching the cover, so I put a small piece of steel under the u shaped bracket to give about 5mm of clearance.
Yes mate, there was a few millimetres of gap but I must confess that I didn't give it a good hit or shove to see if the gap closed and there was contact, as obviously there was from the fall. Oh well, we live and learn. The pics of your bike with its new bars looks pretty good but you really do needs a lower cowl. Right now I have the fairing off and when I go on days off in a few days I'm going to have a crack at fixing the fresh fairing damage and a few old cracks that have been around for ages, but it's been a while since I've used either my Dremel or the Plastex. I ordered some stuff from Randy recently and he added a timing cover into the package which should turn up in a few days. Engine bar has been sanded and painted numerous times and is back to normal look.
Mine has the chin fairing, just didn't have it fitted when I took the photos. I actually have 2 spare ones at home but both need a bit of plastic welding or something to fix them. Reading something on here somewhere the other day about using Lego blocks to fix fairings. Made out of the same materials apparently.
Found the link
Repair Your Motorcycle Skins Using Legos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM4CkyhKyHo#ws)