Tear down of my bike for powdercoating

[Hornstar]

So i am getting a few bits powder coated on my K3 so thought i would post a few pics.

Make shift garage in my garden
http://img.tapatalk.com/1f5dbc5c-fac3-18ca.jpg

Close up
http://img.tapatalk.com/1f5dbc5c-fadd-b535.jpg

More to come this afternoon.

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[srobrien]

Good luck with the refurb. Wouldn't fancy doing it under a gazebo. It was hard enough to work in a nice "dry" garage.

[Jayneflakes]

Good luck with the refurb. Wouldn't fancy doing it under a gazebo. It was hard enough to work in a nice "dry" garage.

A good friend and I built a CB750 Streetfighter in the kitchen when we were students. That upset the other residents in the house! :smt021

So wish I could bring my bike into the flat to do jobs like this, imagine how nice it would be to strip and rebuild the bike in the warm and dry next to the HiFi? Oh well, stuck in the cold garage for now. :smt042

Good luck with the rebuild :cool:

[tom-k6]

itd just be nice to strip and rebuild a bike when you can kneel down on carpet! or sitting on the sofa while trying to undo a tricky bolt.

id never get the bike between the oven and the cupboard in the kitchen though...........
might remodel the kitchen soon :)

[Hornstar]

Yeah using the gazebo and a cold hard floor is not ideal but its the best I have unfortunately. When I move I will def be getting a house with a garage!

Here are some more pics:

Nightime working with my little helpers:

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7249/20120225185043.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/72/20120225185043.jpg/)

Tea station and entertainment area:

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/447/20120225185129.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/96/20120225185129.jpg/)

Rusty linkage bolt that took me half an hour to remove:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1075/20120225193537.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/252/20120225193537.jpg/)

The rusty dogbones and shock linkage where the above bolt came from:

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4392/20120225193603.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/20120225193603.jpg/)

Time to celebrate the removal of said bolt with a beer! So glad I didn't strip the bolt!

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/5504/20120225193930.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/20120225193930.jpg/)

Think I need a new linkage. Luckily I have a nice shiny one that came off my race bike!

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8341/20120225230300.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/20120225230300.jpg/)

I know which one I would prefer going into the bike on the re-build!

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5930/20120225195336.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/20120225195336.jpg/)

Its a bit a of a wirey mess at the back:

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3352/20120225224409.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/259/20120225224409.jpg/)

I think there is something missing at the back end!

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2527/20120225224423.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/96/20120225224423.jpg/)

So overall I didn't get done as much I would have liked yesterday but I was out most of the afternoon and with most of the bolts rusted to buggery everything takes twice as long. I also had a bit of a nightmare as my front paddock stand (one that goes into the yokes) collapsed and then I realised that my Abba stand was located on the swingarm pivots and I had to move it to locate onto the footpegs as I a removing the swingarm. Unfortunately I only realised this after taking the shock out and so I had to re-fit it so I could move the Abba Stand. Nightmare!

[Geodude]

Haha your garage is the hi-tech version of mine :p

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab227/geodude_album/mygarage.jpg

and you have entertainment and helpers i just got a cold wet backside ;)

[HoL]

Damn! wish I had a cocktail umbrella to go even less high tech

[Geodude]

Haha hol, you may notice my hi-tech cling 'electric protection' film to keep out the rain too ;)

[HoL]

Is that what that is? nice work, you should rebrand some cling film & double the price ;)

[dizzyblonde]

A good friend and I built a CB750 Streetfighter in the kitchen when we were students. That upset the other residents in the house! :smt021

So wish I could bring my bike into the flat to do jobs like this, imagine how nice it would be to strip and rebuild the bike in the warm and dry next to the HiFi? Oh well, stuck in the cold garage for now. :smt042

Good luck with the rebuild :cool:

Ex fella used to rebuild his RDs in his living room, had a spare in the hall and used the frame of another as a clothes horse in his bedroom. Plenty of music to your ears on shelves in the living room, a collection the size of a small shop! Few beers, door open, fag in gob on a summers afternoon!:smt025

Landlady got rather annoyed at finding the Raptor in her living room (he lived in a granny annex on the side of her house) and the dishwasher filled with bike parts, after her annual trip to Italy#-o

[Hornstar]

Did some work Sunday morning before going to watch the Arsenal round a friends. Stripped the front down ready to strip the forks. Here are some more pics:

The bike without the front or rear end:

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1766/20120226121544.jpg (http://img828.imageshack.us/i/20120226121544.jpg/)

And with my little helper alongside:

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3417/20120226121623.jpg (http://img444.imageshack.us/i/20120226121623.jpg/)

A shot of my improvised front paddock stand after my one collapsed and split the metal!

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/1943/20120226121531.jpg (http://img546.imageshack.us/i/20120226121531.jpg/)

Frustratingly I had replaced the head bearings last year and the ones on the bottom yoke are brand new. I am now in two minds whether the get the lower yoke sprayed or just leave it. I think I will regret not doing it so I might just have to remove the bearing, which I don't want to do as its a bit of a pig to get off. What do you all think, bite the bullet and remove the bearing or leave the yoke as it is?

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8455/20120226121559.jpg (http://img406.imageshack.us/i/20120226121559.jpg/)

Going to remove the wheel bearings (or try to at least) and also strip down the forks. Once that has been done I just have to remove the swingarm once my tool arrives and then get the tyres off and I will be all set to drop them off to the powder coaters.

Although I have never removed wheel bearings before I might do a how to with pics, assuming I can actually do it!

[srobrien]

Wheel bearings are easy just get a thin chisel and slip it down through one bearing, through the spacer and onto the lip of the inner race of the other bearing, then batter it with a hammer until it submisses. Then remove the spacer, whip the wheel round the other side and use said chisel or appropriate sized socket and batter the **** out of the other one till it comes out.
RE the lower yoke I couldn't be arsed changing the bearings so just masked them up and sprayed them, came out nice though, I used black hammerite smooth.

R

[SoulKiss]

just get a thin chisel and slip it down through one bearing, through the spacer and onto the lip of the inner race of the other bearing, then batter it with a hammer until it submisses.

Nothing like using the right tools for the job, eh?

[srobrien]

Yup, what would you suggest? Can't see the point in beating around the bush if you are replacing them.

[SoulKiss]

Yup, what would you suggest? Can't see the point in beating around the bush if you are replacing them.

Nothing wrong with that, I have to confess that 1st reaction to the word chisel was a wood chisel, but then, after posting remembering that there are more than one kind of chisel :)

So if you were meaning this, then I stand by what I said (only because it will wreck the tool)

http://woodchisels.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Wood%20chisels-127843208420061560.jpg

If you meant something like this, then it came from my interpretation

http://www.bloomertool.com/images/pictures_036.jpg

[garynortheast]

A brass or copper drift is less likely to cause any damage to the surrounding area than a chisel. It's what I've always used to remove bearing races such as head and wheel bearings.

[yorkie_chris]

Drift or chisel.

Don't just knock f*** out of it though, you want the bearing to come out squarely.