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31-03-08, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I got a 2nd hand one for melodys bike for something like ?40

where from m8 i cant find one at all

yorkie_chris · 31-03-08, 08:36 PM

Some online bike breakers site where you give details of what you want and they email or ring you with quotes if any of the breakers affiliated with that site have the bits

31-03-08, 08:39 PM

done that and they come back with 111pounds for one lol

northwind · 01-04-08, 12:44 PM

I straightened mine. It was quite difficult...

The bit of wood was to give me a centreline, makes it easier to eyeball the bend. The trick is to not just bend it by pulling on the ends, that'll bend other parts. Instead I got a big steel bar and attached it just to the part I wanted to shift, right in the middle, so that I could push one end and pull the other and just twist the part I wanted to. I used 2 big jubilee clips to attach it. Worked really well, but time consuming.

My garage is the BEST!

01-04-08, 06:14 PM

nice to see some one doing the work like that, spoke with my dad and he said easy to do with heat etc and would take him half a day etc,

i have phoned up the dealers and i can get a new one for 126 inc vat which i have ordered as it was a lot better than a second hand one at 111 pound

got a foot rest hanger coming tomo from ebay thanks to this thread found it for the gsxr srad

northwind · 01-04-08, 06:19 PM

Yeah, it took me an hour or two but there was a lot of refitting and unfitting and refitting in that, which I'm quite fast at now for obvious reasons

01-04-08, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TSM

i thought front subframes were about 80 new

£124.29 for a pointy.

01-04-08, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by northwind

The trick is to not just bend it by pulling on the ends, that'll bend other parts.

poop thats what i did and like northy said it was making things worse

i try'd heating the main part with a blow torch but i couldnt budge it.

02-04-08, 05:28 PM

well today arrived my hanger thanks to ebay, nice bargin, already fitted that one

went into the dealers today ordered a new subframe front cost of 136 pounds plus a new battery and the mirror

shoulnt be to long till its on the road again

02-04-08, 06:02 PM

I straightened my front sub frame using my gas torch and a vice. Not perfect, but it was ok. Other plans afoot now.

31-03-08, 08:36 PM	#12
yorkie_chris Noisy Git Mega Poster Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Halifax/Leeds Posts: 26,645	Re: spent all day phoning breakers Some online bike breakers site where you give details of what you want and they email or ring you with quotes if any of the breakers affiliated with that site have the bits __________________ Currently Ex Biker Now rebuilding a 63' fishing trawler as a dive boat

31-03-08, 08:39 PM	#13
ricky Guest Posts: n/a	Re: spent all day phoning breakers done that and they come back with 111pounds for one lol

01-04-08, 12:44 PM	#14
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Re: spent all day phoning breakers I straightened mine. It was quite difficult... The bit of wood was to give me a centreline, makes it easier to eyeball the bend. The trick is to not just bend it by pulling on the ends, that'll bend other parts. Instead I got a big steel bar and attached it just to the part I wanted to shift, right in the middle, so that I could push one end and pull the other and just twist the part I wanted to. I used 2 big jubilee clips to attach it. Worked really well, but time consuming. My garage is the BEST! __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed" Last edited by northwind; 03-04-08 at 10:20 PM.

01-04-08, 06:14 PM	#15
ricky Guest Posts: n/a	Re: spent all day phoning breakers nice to see some one doing the work like that, spoke with my dad and he said easy to do with heat etc and would take him half a day etc, i have phoned up the dealers and i can get a new one for 126 inc vat which i have ordered as it was a lot better than a second hand one at 111 pound got a foot rest hanger coming tomo from ebay thanks to this thread found it for the gsxr srad

01-04-08, 06:19 PM	#16
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Re: spent all day phoning breakers Yeah, it took me an hour or two but there was a lot of refitting and unfitting and refitting in that, which I'm quite fast at now for obvious reasons __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

02-04-08, 05:28 PM	#19
ricky Guest Posts: n/a	Re: spent all day phoning breakers well today arrived my hanger thanks to ebay, nice bargin, already fitted that one went into the dealers today ordered a new subframe front cost of 136 pounds plus a new battery and the mirror shoulnt be to long till its on the road again

02-04-08, 06:02 PM	#20
Razor Guest Posts: n/a	Re: spent all day phoning breakers I straightened my front sub frame using my gas torch and a vice. Not perfect, but it was ok. Other plans afoot now.

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