Project SV

[tactcom7]

Well, I looked at a few threads here and as I'd knackered the dust seal and bearing race on the bottom yoke removing them, I decided to get new bearings. Supposedly its a 32005JR for the top and a 32006JRRS for the bottom. As the pictures show, the top race is rather proud and looks like I've fitted the wrong one? Everything is at the powder coaters now so I can't trial fit it to see.

The other one looks...ok? And does this mean I won't need the dust seal that normally sits under the lower bearing race?

Cheers

Simon

[garynortheast]

I'll try and see what I can on mine tomorrow Simon. I may be able to peer under the top yoke. I'll let you know when I've had a look.

[tactcom7]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

I'll try and see what I can on mine tomorrow Simon. I may be able to peer under the top yoke. I'll let you know when I've had a look.

Any joy Gary?

In other news the stuff is back from the powder coaters

[garynortheast]

Sorry Simon, I'd forgotten about this. Just been out for a look and as the picture shows, there is a dust seal over the top of bearing location, so I can't actually tell whether the bearing race sits proud or not unless I take the top yoke off.

[tactcom7]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

Sorry Simon, I'd forgotten about this. Just been out for a look and as the picture shows, there is a dust seal over the top of bearing location, so I can't actually tell whether the bearing race sits proud or not unless I take the top yoke off.

No worries mate, thanks for looking!

In other news, had a small disaster trying to rebuild the forks, not sure quite what went wrong but I'm now in need of a new pair of tubes! it kind of got stuck and the little plastic thingy at the bottom was wedged in and I buggered the fork in the removal process.

Onwards and upwards.

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by tactcom7

In other news, had a small disaster trying to rebuild the forks, not sure quite what went wrong but I'm now in need of a new pair of tubes! it kind of got stuck and the little plastic thingy at the bottom was wedged in and I buggered the fork in the removal process.

Onwards and upwards.

Oh no!! Are you referring to the damper tubes or stanchions?

[tactcom7]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

Oh no!! Are you referring to the damper tubes or stanchions?

The stanchions (silvery tubey bits?)

Number 8 in the picture was basically wedged into the bottom of the stanchion, when I fitted the damper bolt, the fork refused to slide out of the bottom and extend. I put it in a vice and held it with my foot and still couldn't extend the fork. According to the manual that plastic bit (number eight) should be easy to remove and even just slide out, but they were stuck fast on both legs. There's a good chance I cocked up the assembly procedure but looking back at the manual I can't see where I went wrong.

As i'm assuming the plastic bits were original, they were also quite brittle and fell to bits as I pried them out.

So like a child I had a temper tantrum and now I need a new stanchion and two of the plastic bits.

[tactcom7]

I absolutely cannot be arsed with this anymore, I've gone through FOUR BKM2020JAU bearings trying to get them installed in the swingarm. One side slipped straight in with a threaded rod and a few sockets but the other side, jesus, took it to an engineering place and apparently the hole is wonky, ground it out with a dremmel and everytime I press the bearing in, right at the very end it tightens up and deforms :/

Sorely tempted to just chuck the lot on ebay, any takers?

Rant over...

[garynortheast]

You know, this close to the summer I'd be tempted to just go and find a reasonable running and working SV, and put the project away till the winter!

[tactcom7]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

You know, this close to the summer I'd be tempted to just go and find a reasonable running and working SV, and put the project away till the winter!

Extremely tempting right now. I'll try bearings 6 and 7 tomorrow and if that doesn't work, have a look on autotrader!