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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #75 - 05/08/05 at 06:25:09 Where to put the fuses so that they are easy to reach and out of the way...
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #76 - 05/08/05 at 08:32:46 Where did you put the horn?
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #77 - 05/08/05 at 10:21:17 The horn has been up under the lower triple tree for a while now. It and it's wimpy sound face forward
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Reply #78 - 05/17/05 at 10:36:39

Update on this design...

It won't work. The springs are mounted as the picture on the web site, but there is no flexibility with the mounting of these springs. The springs want to bend forward and down while the seat wants to pivot rearward and down. The end result is similar to a triangle design with the rider weight on the top of 2 legs, and the seat was absolutely rigid. Does that make sense?

The mounting is so rigid that when I tried to make the springs compress, the "Made in China" welded seat mounts broke off. Completely. Then the seat would compress, with the springs "floating" loosely under the seat...and then I discovered the other truth...the springs aren't strong enough to support a 200 lb. rider anyway.

Conclusion: Don't buy springs like this.

Back to the drawing board....

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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #79 - 05/17/05 at 10:51:43 Hey Greg That pic of Your breather filter is the one that inspired me to go upward and foreward with the filter on KLX. It fits in a small gap between the tank,fork leg,indicator,rad and rad scoop. Thanks for the idea. Clive W
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Reply #80 - 05/17/05 at 11:21:03

klx650sm2002 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05:

Hey Greg

That pic of Your breather filter is the one that inspired me to go upward and foreward with the filter on KLX.
It fits in a small gap between the tank,fork leg,indicator,rad and rad scoop.
Thanks for the idea.

Clive W Cheesy

You are welcome.

Now I have to redo so that I can mount my coil springs under the seat. They are strong enough for my weight, but since they are wider, my present brackets will need to be modified...again.

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Reply #81 - 05/28/05 at 11:36:40

Well, many of you remember this picture...the topic concerned moving our Savages to the Pacific Northwest last December. It looks like that topic has been dormant too long and has been purged. No matter...here it is again. That was the last time that our Savages actually ran...

Well, I'm happy to state that my Raask pipe has finally awakened after a long winter's nap. Fresh gas, full charge on the battery, new synthetic oil and about 6 revolutions on the engine with the choke out. Boom, boom, boom...around the apartemnt complex I went Roll Eyes

New pictures later. Time to go back and wax and shine.

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bobo383 Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline Neck=Red Posts: 516 Arlington, TX Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #82 - 05/28/05 at 12:51:10 Love those trees, man. Good to hear you're running again!
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Reply #83 - 05/28/05 at 21:07:54

Greg, I've got a couple hundred 3 inch seat springs if you need to tinker... might even have a pair of 4 inchers. Made in China seat is pretty fragile I gather...want me to see if I've got any good USA made pans floating around? My preference is an old Farm-all side seat style seat pan, although, they are tricky to upholster. John Deere or 8/9N Ford pans cut down nicely too...
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #84 - 05/29/05 at 06:04:36 bobo383 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05: Love those trees, man. Good to hear you're running again! Man, those are NC trees. Usually those are some scrubby old pine. You wanna see some real trees? You gotta see these puppies here in the northwest...Spruce and Douglas Fir.
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Reply #85 - 05/29/05 at 06:25:04

WD wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05:

Greg, I've got a couple hundred 3 inch seat springs if you need to tinker... might even have a pair of 4 inchers. Made in China seat is pretty fragile I gather...want me to see if I've got any good USA made pans floating around? My preference is an old Farm-all side seat style seat pan, although, they are tricky to upholster. John Deere or 8/9N Ford pans cut down nicely too...
-WD

I think the seat is okay. Yeah, the mounting studs for the springs broke off the seat. What can I say, I was trying to follow a budget and the online ad said nothing about made in China....but it is the adapter type of mount that I need that is the problem.

I have 3 inch coil springs like Sluggo, but (#1) the springs are too tall on a Savage to mount them directly on the frame, and (#2) the spring mount spacings on the seat and the frame are a different distance apart. So, all in all I need some mounts to offset the springs below the frame about an inch and to adapt different spacing.

Unfortunately too, I made a double dog leg kind of mount Friday at work...government work that is....and when all was done, I pulled out my tape to check it, and "SOB!" I made the stupid thing an inch too wide. How in the hell, I scribed a line in the wrong place, I don't know. It went in the scrap bin and I'm back to the drawing board.

I need to find a local little shop that does cash jobs

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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #86 - 05/30/05 at 10:29:52 Ready to go. I'll finish the springer setup later. I need a fender bib to match the tank...
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Paint Reply #87 - 01/21/07 at 08:38:59 Looks like my photos are gone from the post. I'll fix it soon.
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