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Swing arm is 85% done still needs struts on the sides and fender mounts. Then its on to shock placement. We done away with my oil tank idea from the begening of the build. im gonna make the tail section the oil tank
So tonight i pulled the motor and finished up the xs650 fork swap. Tomarrow morning were back on the mono shock im to drunk to think real hard right now
Hey man. You dont happen to have a source for the oil lines on a t500 do you? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Great looking bike by the way. I am glad that shock worked out for you.
The oil feed system was working A-OK when I tore that bike down. Motor even had decent, even compression across the cylinders. You going to fux with the internals at all or just get it rolling/riding first?
We worked a little bit today and made an adjustable clevis for the frame end of the shock should work out pretty good there will be 6 1/2in of adjustment for ride height once done. and everything sits under the rd400 tank with miles of room ."i love it when a plan comes together"
there is and was a shit ton of math involed just in getting this thing as far as it is and math is not a strong suit for me so i owe a pile of credit to a good friend of mine lockard666. Im just another pretty face so far on making all these parts work together. haha
The oil feed system was working A-OK when I tore that bike down. Motor even had decent, even compression across the cylinders. You going to fux with the internals at all or just get it rolling/riding first?
Hi Johnu, I just occurred to me that you and Brad have done the same with your mounts. Most commonly the shock is made ride height adjustable and not the chassis mount. Both of these have the mounts on the upper end and part of the frame. It's usually it adjustable on the lower end and part of the shock itself. Again just making shop talk, I put my ride ht. adj. at the bottom and fixed the upper. Typical of linkage type mono-shocks it's a 2/1 ratio so that 1" of adjustment yields 2" at the axle that should be plenty to tune most chassis? I don't know either of the direct mono ratio. Fun stuff to ponder.
Cheers, 50gary
My GSXR shock is also adjustable at the shock, but at the top. In that case it's a slightly adjustable clevis and in reality it's not much different to those two except that it has limited range of adjustment.
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