Curvy RED Project

Oh well, I am a newbie to SV machines, thanks for the informed info.

Hello ladies and gents, further to the story of my lil red SV.

Today pretty much everything arrived to get it back on the road in it's naked guise so big conversion guide coming up this weekend.

To date I have:

XBR500 Stanley Headlight with uprated H4
Bandit 600 Clocks, cable n speedo drive
Foot rest hanger
KTM fat bars anodised gold
GS1000 aluminum lever set

I was out there just getting things sorted and noticed during the drop the exhaust alignment wasn't quite right. Should have left it there but us SV fettlers jus have to mess don't we???

Any way removed support fixings to discover the system had shifted, so much so that the bolts would not go back in. Released clamps to re angle exhaust, front clamp just snapped clean. Then thought well your this far why not take it off completely to polish.

Then comes the cylinder head one stud wound out the head with the nut the other - less than 12nm off torque and snap.

Commence the endless pen fluid, gas torch, stud extractors of 3 different type ultimately the cordless drill on my bench was staring at me. And it cam down to the ever dreaded task of drilling the stud out.

No matter how many times this has happened over the years i think i have only ever had one stud actually come out with an extractor and that was probably for a friend. Guess thats my luck.

Still it's now out and the head re tapped. Collecting the new studs tomoz and going for copper nuts this time.

Also tomoz at work I will be fitting a new male/female 18 way connector to the harness link lead and the clocks to mate them up beautifully, also got to include 3 fly leads one for the coolant temp the other two for the fuel level sensor.

Also gotta make support brackets for the clocks aswell.

Still loads of pics the weekend and hopefully a first test ride of the beasty.

Cheers, Joe

Wiring conversion completed, long day ahead then BIG update

Joe

[mikerj]

Originally Posted by LVC

No matter how many times this has happened over the years i think i have only ever had one stud actually come out with an extractor and that was probably for a friend. Guess thats my luck.

Your luck is clearly pretty good as you managed to get them to work once! As as numerous people have said on the org, stud/bolt extractors are doomed to failure on seized fasteners, and are most likely to make a bad situation much worse by snapping off within the fastener. They are only realy useful for removing non-seized fasteners that have sheared off through over torquing or maybe material defect.

Tbh wish it was luck, I jsut spent a great deal of time studying the wiring of both bikes, its fairly easy tho pretty much just match up all the colours, cut out the speed sensor three, only mismatched colour is black n yellow on the SV to Red n Black on the bandit for tacho signal from coil. join all black n whites together for ground.

Gotta tap in an ignition positive from the illumination to the back of three LED's and then the grounds are switch via the three sensors i.e. low fuel, v low fuel and OMG your engine is boiling over! lol

Joe

Hey all,

Intended to update but the got the bike going this evening and have accumed 50 mile around the midlands lol

The conversion is flawless, bike runs sweet as and the KTM bars are super comfortable.

Just gotta get my indicators, curvy grab rail and gel seat.

Joe

c'mon Joe - Pics!

I do oplogise, jus been enjoyin having it back too much lol.

Photos tomorrow I promise!!!

Well Ladies and Gents I'm back an the bike is looking pretty cool still needs work but thats what the poor weather is for.










Half way there



Before the accident



Joe

Missus just sold her intruder nice tidy lil profit!