holdin up the rear end when changing dogbones

[Quiff Wichard]

ok I have new dogbones

I have looked at old threads...

seen its easier to remove the wheel..! ..

so I can get it up on the padock stand under my wooden pergola

then can I rope it up to the struts of the pergola so it wont collapse when I take out the existing dogbones..

???

plus- I can give it a good kwak clean when its all apart..,,



so wheres the best place to put the rope?.. just under the back end? through the bungee straps? at the sides


also one more Q?.. I am wanting an undertay and I dont like the above mentioned black metal bars (bungee bars) so can I just angle grind them off?.. will it affect any resale ?.. or make gaping holes.

thank you in anticipation of you reading all of the above..

[Luckypants]

I thought about that too when changing the shock. I decided against it as I reasoned the rear sub-frame was designed for weight from the top, not the bottom as would be the case if the bike was suspended.

I opted to use breeze blocks under the main frame below the footpegs. Axle stands would be better. Lift up using the paddock stand, plce blocks, lower using padock stand and presto! Bike was suprisingly stable and alowed the removal of the shock and dog bones no problem.

[Baph]

If you're wanting to suspend the bike, a mate of mine always uses the grab rail (not an SV though).

Feed a rope through the grab rail, over a pulley rig & to his garage roof. Front brake firmly locked on by elastic bands (if the wheel is to stay on the floor - securely tied to a paddock stand if it's not). Pulley attached to the garage roof directly above the grab rail (so there's no forward/backward movement when lifted). Pull the rope, pulley does it's thing, bike goes skyward.

We've actually had both front & back off the floor using the same system, but it wasn't that stable (sideways movement). So maybe something to think about there.

Personally, if I were to attack the dogbones on mine, trolley jack under engine block, weight the front down, should do you no worries. Failing that, abba stand ;)

[northwind]

The subframe'll take it, no probs. Though you'll want to loosen the bolst first, they can be very tight and having the bike swing around like a teabag on a string won't help :) Or you could hire a large polishman for the afternoon.

[northwind]

That's a man from Poland, not a man with a Mr Sheen fetish.

[Pedrosa]

Mr.Quiff, job can be made much more easier if Mrs.Quiff kindly kneel under bike and support weight.I am hoping this be big help?;)

[Blue_SV650S]

Axle stand under the side-stand mounting point, bar through the swingarm bolt hole and another axle-stand on that ... works a charm ... I used a trolley jack under the sump (with some wood) to take a bit of the strain and as a bit of backup ... :thumbsup:

[Quiff Wichard]

Mr.Quiff, job can be made much more easier if Mrs.Quiff kindly kneel under bike and support weight.I am hoping this be big help?;)


helpful as ever pietro- but mrs Quiff has trouble supporting her own weight these days!!.. (dont tell her I said so)


to u others- cheers- I shall let u know how I get on

[John Burt]

Does anybody know where I can get a polish man as mine is not very shiny! :smt046

[Stig]

Dave, don't know if it's possible for you. But how about putting two hooks in a ceiling beam in the car port, garage or shed? I have two hooks in my car port that I use for working on bikes that do not fit on my Abba stand. It works quite well. I used them to jack up the front of my brothers bike when we changed the fork seals. :thumbsup:

[Quiff Wichard]

cheers guys- I am currently in the middle of having a go at it....

nearly giving up-
got one nut loose other wont budge..
but boy- whilst the wheels off and the back end off I have given her a hell of a clean and angle grinded the bungeee brackets off..


just need to get that dam nut loose now.!

[Pedrosa]

Mr.Quiff it will be nice to see you not be saggibg behind,no?;)

[Quiff Wichard]

ha ha ha..

anyway I have done it.!!
with help from Kim holding the bike and some blocks of wood..

[Catflavor]

Oh! If only I'd had somewhere I could hang the bike from when I did this last monday! It should have been easy, I slackened all the bolts off before starting, threw it on a paddock stand, propped the bike under the pegs with a car jack (a bit lopsided, but it proved to be invaluable in assisting me hold the bike longer than I expected) and had a big soft thing in the cavity between wheel and undertray to stop the back end crashing onto the rear wheel...

When it came to swapping the bones, one side went on fine, so it looked like the other ought to as well. Only, every time I lifted, Emily said it needed more (*sob*). I was sure I was lifting waaay higher than when she'd got the other side on, but we tried about 10 times - until I couldn't take it any more and told her to go and get the neighbour before my back/arms/fingers snapped. It turned out she wasn't rotating the end of the dog bone to marry up with the suspension bolt when I lifted it the bike. For some reason she was holding it in place and expecting the bolts to come to it... still not quite sure...

The moral of the story? Make sure your co-worker knows what they're doing or you might end up holding most of the weight of the SV for 5 minutes more than you want to! I briefed her aplenty before we started but its worth having someone with some mechanical empathy and not just relying on instruction being understood. Other than that it's not a hard job. I managed the lift many more times than required and I'm only 65kilos / 10.5 stone.

Everything ended up OK though. The new linkages are on and its brought the saddle down a little, enough to make a tangible difference to Emily maneouvring the bike in parking spots and stopping at junctions. We also ordered the lowered genuine Suzuki seat from http://www.robinsonsfoundry.co.uk - really cheap. Was less than £30 all in. The K3 seat isn't on their website, but they have it.

Ordered that last week but some delivery issues mean that the courier took it back to them undelivered... *sigh* ...Anything which can go wrong does a test run on me ;)

[Grinch]

Stiff nutts ain't they... Scoob's lent me his tool and it sorted it. :o

[northwind]

I broke my tool first time I did it. Really what was needed was a bigger tool, my 3/8 of an inch just wasn't up to the task.

[Grinch]

I was scared I was going to round me nuts off, but lucky for me Scoob's tool stopped that from happening. Taken alot of grunt but one big push did it in the end.

[kcowgergmm]

yeah i was thinking the grab rail too

[Stu]

You two just have to bring it right down to the gutter .... :lol:

[northwind]

All looks perfectly innocent to me mate, perhaps you have a dirty mind? :)