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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2772	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #30 - 12/16/16 at 06:48:32 Armen wrote on 12/16/16 at 02:25:51: ... We'll see. ---------------- When?!!! We are waiting! Ha, ha
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1452	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #31 - 12/16/16 at 11:44:10 Lots of bad habits that take lots of time....
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #32 - 12/16/16 at 12:36:07 My only bad habit is my addiction To MOTORCYCLES If I ever become wealthy or win the lotto it will create my new job of building motorcycles ,10 hours a day ,5 days a week and never again work on the weekend !
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #33 - 12/16/16 at 12:45:18 Is there a Motorcycles Anonymous, ya know a seven step program ? Case I feel the need to quit and be healthy. NEVER HAPPEN !!!
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #34 - 12/17/16 at 04:49:53 I think you need a "4 Stroke Program" to cure a motorcycle related obsession........or does that make it worse?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #35 - 12/17/16 at 07:35:45 Sometimes the only way to get over wanting something is to just get enough of it. I'm clearly not there yet.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #36 - 12/17/16 at 10:55:05 Good thing I have a job,it temporarily breaks constant thoughts of motorcycles. Till break when I start lurking on SS ! I do have issues , I will never change , it keeps me sane ! Someone please define sane !
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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #37 - 12/17/16 at 11:37:11 Ruttly, Sane, sure as hell isn't you or me......LOL Kenny
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Reply #38 - 12/17/16 at 12:06:45

Kenny, Thanks for clarifying that for me. As Lancer said "I am not alone".
I try to inform others that it's a sickness,addiction,obsession but most won't listen. I will sleep better tonight knowing it's ok to be me. I must have the greatest wife in the world , to recognize my faults and never says anything other than dinners ready,last night she brought dinner to the garage cause she knew I wouldn't stop to eat !!!!

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #39 - 12/17/16 at 12:20:19 You know when you got a good wife when you come home late one night with a red smudge on your collar and she says... 'well that's an improvement... that red grease is a lot easier to get out then the black sh!t'
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #40 - 12/17/16 at 12:25:14 L O L
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norm92de Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1180 El Paso TX Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #41 - 12/17/16 at 13:10:17 You guys are sick. Maybe in a nice way I guess we are all afflicted in one way or another.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Narrowing the stock belt? Reply #42 - 12/17/16 at 14:40:32 We Know !!!
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Re: Narrowing the stock belt?
Reply #43 - 12/18/16 at 07:07:16

I had to do something to make the shocks the same length. The clevis adds length to the shock, which hurts in two ways-a) I didn't want the shocks to be any longer, and b) with the clevis on the left shock, and the eyelet on the right one, the eyelet had almost no thread engagement into the shock.
So, I took the other clevis I had, had the 8mm bolt hole TIGed up, moved the hole up as much as I could (and still clear the swingarm mount nubbin). Then I removed the locknut from the left shock and Loctitied the clevis into the shock. Not too worried about it unscrewing. With those two mods, the eyelet on the right shock can be screwed all the way in and still have a locknut. This way, if I need to adjust the lengths of the shocks to agree with each other, I'll do it with the right shock.
I also had to widen the clevis on the left shock to clear the Suzi-Q lower mount on the swingarm.
Hopefully the narrowed (to 1") belt arrives this week. Then I'll dummy the whole thing up, and check the belt tension/slack situation again.
And maybe get back to wiring the beast. Right now it looks like spaghetti warfare Shocked

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Reply #44 - 12/18/16 at 09:18:16

Anyone who looks at my post count knows I've been here a while. Also, I lost a good number of posts when justin o guy quit working, then justin o guy 1 quit, and in the eleven years of seeing people come and go I've seen some really groundbreaking stuff. Some truly gorgeous paint work, some really clever problem solving, but nobody has ever just said
That belt doesn't Have to be so wide, and that shock doesn't Have to be so asymmetrically located. I'm gonna fix that.
I'm watching this closely, and digging it.
Some day, someone will get one Savage and do everything you can do. Of course, the chain mod AND belt trimming won't exactly work together..
The cam timing with the worn chain idea is possibly the coolest solution to an everyday problem. Not to take anything away from the Versy. I think I'm impressed by it because no parts are needed, but a Eureka moment, seeing that
Okay, if I advance the cam timing a tooth on the gear, that is too much, but if I retard the gear one spline, then it will work..

That's some moment..

When I go into mine I'm gonna add a spring to the Versy, I think the spring from the stock petcock will do nicely. They put a good flat end on it on both ends. Might be enough to do two,, not sure,, but I have a cam chain soaking in oil, and, my future SIL told me that for Christmas he's having a guy get the Kawasaki W650 cleaned up and fixed up and ready to go, so, I'll be able to do a complete makeover on the Savage and not be without a bike. Question is, does it need it?

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