Whew!!
Got the motor mounts in, and tidied up everything I wont need to start the Rocker Boxes.
tightened up the lower front stabilizer brackets before getting the top bracket on, that doesnt work, lol
Had a bit of a fight getting the rear brake back on since I put the tire on from the other side and uh, well forgot about it till after I had the axle in. Luckily I hadnt aligned the tire, so I was able to undo it and get it squared up.
One question though, the swing arm bearings were a bit crusty on the left. See picture. I cleaned up the rotating part and it moved freely, so I just used it. I don't see why the swing arm would need to rotate around the bearing so I left it but I need to take the wheel off to replace it soon so I figured I'd ask.
Bit crusty on the outside. But I cleaned up the middle and moves rotates 180 degrees freely now.
Started today like this Getting closer. Now on to rocker boxes
Nice looking TR6. Had a few of them. Heres a 1968 TR 250 I restored.
. Damned things cleaned up just like new, could have reused them. There are sealed spherical bearings, but I couldn't find any to fit.
Yeah the spherical part cleaned up real nice, no play with some wheel bearing grease in there, figured its probably just the housing, nothing to worry about. I did put my old tire / wheel back on, so when I burn that up and replace the tire, i might consider replacing it, but its not an axle or wheel bearing it doesnt really move other than a few degrees so probably a pandoras box of hurt to open it up to replace an otherwise good bearing...
Mounted up my $56 HD Quarter fairing knock off from Amazon, along with a laminar lip and my other little wind deflector. Plastic is plastic, saved a couple of hundred bucks. As is par for the course for low production volume models, I had to fab my own mounts for the Roadster. Not many Roadster specific accys. available.
There's been some discussions here lately about suspension upgrades, etc. I wanted to identify what length rear shocks are on my bike so I could keep an eye out for deals on better gear. I knew there was some writing on the springs, just haven't looked at them closely to know what it was.... like so:
Looked closer... dang, that's progressive 444-4007 (12.5") The bike that keeps on giving. So now I'm wondering what the previous owner did to the front forks, if anything. Finding new stuff every time I look.
03-26-2018 | 10:21 PM
