Fork Swap - GSXR - advise please

[Strangwooduk]

I have it all and they all fit together
Just the stem I'm worrying about now

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[650]

Nothing to worry about, in that case. Chances are the bearings are the same.

Use the all balls site as I recommended. No amount of questions on here will ever answer your question about the stem, as it's a pretty unusual combo.

http://www.allballsracing.com/index.php/forkconversion

Street > Year (this'll be the stem year) > make (again, stem) > model (and...you guessed it, stem)

Then scroll down until you see the bearings for the SV650 (99-2002 or whatever the curvy ran for) and that's your ticket to slotting it all into place.

If the bearings aren't available. Either press the SV stem into place (then you can run stock bearings) or buy a set of lower and upper triples on Ebay and sell yours.

[Strangwooduk]

i wonder if the lock stops will be okay though

[Strangwooduk]

ill just buy the sv650 bottom yoke and steal the stem from it

[650]

Again, no idea. It's all a bit trial and error. If they're not OK, you have two options:

Drill them and put a bolt in, wind it in until you're happy then put spacers in the gap
Use wheel balancing weights, glue to triple or frame...makes no difference

If I were you, I'd just be getting all this bolted up and tackling issues as they arise. It'll likely never be super perfect from the get go, conversions always take some tweaking to get right.

[Bibio]

unless the bike is your daily workhorse then i would just try the bandit stem first. odds are that its the same as the SV. i do know that the bearings are the same.

[Strangwooduk]

That's the problem haha it is my daily work horse gaga

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[650]

If the bearings are the same, it'll bolt right in. You can eyeball the bandit and see the headstock is no shorter then the SV's by any significant amount.

And you're just gonna have to accept this won't be a days work, people may try to convince you otherwise, but unless you have a perfectly laid out plan and all the tools to hand, you're looking more at a full weekend if not three days, just to get it all nipped up. Then there's the ironing out phase to remove gremlins like bearing adjustments etc.

[Strangwooduk]

bandit stem will be removed this weekend
and the TL or SRAD stem will be put back in
ordered the bearings for the SRAD so hope that's right or more yokes AGAIN!!!
on a side note lets talk brake hoses, throttle cables and clutch cables
they WILL need extending
any good websites to get custom ones that dont cost the damn earth ?

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Strangwooduk

bandit stem will be removed this weekend
and the TL or SRAD stem will be put back in
ordered the bearings for the SRAD so hope that's right or more yokes AGAIN!!!

front end swaps on SV's has been done to death and every single permutation you can think of people have done.

the SV and the GSXR/TL have different top bearings and to fit GSXR/TL yokes you need a special top bearing for the SV... no iffs no buts.

there is only two ways to do it. get the special top bearing or press the curvy SV stem in.

you need to do more googlefoo and read up before you go buying parts.