Armen
Serious Thumper
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Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey
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So, the flog continues. I narrowed both pulleys to 1" wide. Made a new outer ring for the front pulley. Flopped the rear one over, so the OEM steel inner ring is now outboard. Might not bother to run an inner retaining ring on the rear pulley. Rear pulley lost about a pound. The front one about 1/4 lb less than stock, 3/4 lb less than a stock Kawi pulley. This allowed me to move the left shock inboard. Chopped over an inch off the top shock mount/protrusion/thingy sticking out of the frame. Drilled into the upper mounting stud with an 8.5mm bit, then tapped the hole to 10x1.5mm. Now the top of the shock mounts on a 10mm bolt, which is threaded into the frame. On the bottom, I 'm using a clevis on the left shock bottom, and an eye on the right shock bottom. OEM, the left shock sits out further than the right one, so moving it inboard, and leaving the right one as is, makes the shocks look symmetrical. While I was at it I drilled the lower right shock mount out and tapped it to 8x1.25, so now a bolt holds the shock onto the lower shock mount. On the lower left, I chopped up the clevis supplied by Chris at Livengood and widened it to clear the lower mount. The problem with the clevis mounts, is that they add about 15mm to the length of the shock. Even with the clevis threaded all the way in, the eyelet mount on the right side I barely engaged into the bottom of the shock. It's all dummied up now, but I'll have to modify a clevis mount for the left shock so that the right shock will have enough thread engagement when the shocks are set to the same length. As of now, the left shock with the clevis is about 13 3/8" I'd like to shorten that a bit. Talked to the guy chopping the belt It should be done within a week. Using a straightedge, it looks life the belt (cut to 1" wide) will clear the shock. Just bolts on!
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