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Old 01-20-2007, 10:14 PM   #1
 
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My Second Busa Project done on my own....!

Well the removal of my rear swingarm was a blast and felt this couldn't be any harder of a task for me to take on....

Here's my Second Busa work done by myself....

Front Forks Removal... I jumped into this with great enthusiasm....
according to the Service Manual it looked quite simple... :wink:

And since I was teased about my work space before I decided to take a pic of my tools as they were layed out for use...

this time I was cramped for space with the two trucks still in the garage and put the space heater near me to warm things up a bit since I had forgotten to turn on the over head heat prior to starting LOL

and here is my baby up on the pitbull stand ready to go...

First step was to remove the brake calipers... which is good cuz I need to put my new brake pads on

here's both calipers off and one supported by a coke box - LOL wasn't sure how good it was to allow them to dangle...

next was to loosen the axel pinch bolts....

I did not have the stock busa tools so I had to rig up my own axel tool insert ... took a bolt and welded a nut on ... don't laugh I'm a sloppy welder... it's not pretty but it works

then I used my breaker bar that I had bought for the removal of the rear swing arm.... and pulled the dickens to loosen it up and remove the front axle...

now my tire was free to remove from the forks...

I then loosened the axel pinch bolts so I could remove the axel bolt's spacer nut ...

I put the axel and spacer nut back on the front wheel and set aside with the rear wheel ..

then I loosed the fork upper clamp bolts .... man these were way tigher than I expected.. was hard to use the lil allen wrenches on them.. would have been nice to have those large ones with the red handles ...

then I needed to remove the airducts so I could reach the lower fork clamp bolts with my ratchet...

discovered they were too close to use my new ratchet wrenches.... and there wasn't enough room for the ratchet and socket to fit with air duct on...

with air duct off ... loosening of the fork's lower clamp bolts were much easier... they too were tight but with the ratchet it made it alot easier for me to get a good grip on the large handle..

repeated process on both sides and walla.... the forks were now free from the bike...

now my baby really looks quite funny just hangin there missin half her parts LOL

now they are ready to ship off to get lowered...

and I barely even got dirty

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this was another fun project... cant' wait to get all the stuff back to put back on.. in the mean time I just got my mothers polish in and will be cleaning and polishing her up
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Old 01-20-2007, 10:15 PM   #2
 
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Re: My Second Busa Project done on my own....!

and the second half of project pics...

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Old 01-20-2007, 11:08 PM   #3
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All looks good gal. Keep up the good work.


Oh - and you need to ditch the Mich shirt and get a Georgia Bulldogs Shirt.
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Old 01-21-2007, 12:51 AM   #4
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deja vu
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All looks good gal. Keep up the good work.


Oh - and you need to ditch the Mich shirt and get a Georgia Bulldogs Shirt.

hhah... I have no loyalty to any team I just wear the shirts given to me by others.. so if you wanna send me a GA Bulldogs shirt I'll gladly wear it as well

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deja vu
yeah wasn't sure which of my freinds were where so I just posted it in both places (not to mention some gals on either board may find it helpful to see it's not a "mans" job always to work on your bike)

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so when ya flyin me out to take yours off
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Old 01-21-2007, 12:14 PM   #7
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All looks good gal. Keep up the good work.


Oh - and you need to ditch the Mich shirt and get a Georgia Bulldogs Shirt.
I don't know, seems like the perfect shirt to use when working with grease and brake dust in a garage where no one would see you .... Now to duck and cover since I'm withing range of the place


Good work E. It is good to see the chronicling of the transition to your drag bike
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yeah wasn't sure which of my freinds were where so I just posted it in both places (not to mention some gals on either board may find it helpful to see it's not a "mans" job always to work on your bike)

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so when ya flyin me out to take yours off

funny you say that I was gonna make some smart ass comment saying you shouldn't pretend to work on your mans bike.

umm how about when I have the extra money to fly you out here. that is of course after I have the money to have the forks done in the first place. I think I wanna do the forks and rear shock at the same time though.
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Old 01-25-2007, 07:33 PM   #9
 
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Nice work and documentation. And a great choice in bikes as well.
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Good work E. Gotta admire a woman who knows her way around a tool box.
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I don't know, seems like the perfect shirt to use when working with grease and brake dust in a garage where no one would see you .... Now to duck and cover since I'm withing range of the place


Good work E. It is good to see the chronicling of the transition to your drag bike
hahaah... I just wear the clothing I dont' necessarily root for that team if you want me to wear something else for the next project just pm me and I'll send you my mailing address

tks btw... hopefully soon I'll have another transition to post up when I finally get my new ohlin shock to install and put the new rearswingarm back on and the front forks... gotta get her back together so I can get her back over to the painters...


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funny you say that I was gonna make some smart ass comment saying you shouldn't pretend to work on your mans bike.

umm how about when I have the extra money to fly you out here. that is of course after I have the money to have the forks done in the first place. I think I wanna do the forks and rear shock at the same time though.
yeah well I like my shit done right so I might as well do it myself... right? LOL

besides my man dont' ride bikes.. only me

hahah.. I did the same thing.. got the forks cut and got me an ohlin for the rear.. LOVEN IT!

BTW when you're ready for the forks I have a freind that will do 'em for $ 100 bucks... and he was QUICK with the turn around.. had 'em back to me same week.


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Nice work and documentation. And a great choice in bikes as well.
thank you very much.. hopefully some awesome race times will follow this...


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Good work E. Gotta admire a woman who knows her way around a tool box.
well I do manage and what I dont' have I usually have a way about riggin something up to make it work LOL...

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Good job E ...Are you coming to Grattan with the drag bike?
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Good job E ...Are you coming to Grattan with the drag bike?
If Frank can arrange some draggin down the straight away like mentioned before I'd surely bring it along

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bring it anyway so we can get a good look at it.
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bring it anyway so we can get a good look at it.
well that could be a good possibility..

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honestly what the conflict is with my attending is the Land Speed Racing being held at Maxton, NC is the weekend before the Fireblades Event... and I'm not sure I'd be back intime AND could take the extra time off since I'd be having Friday and Monday off for driving as it is... I'll know when the time comes closer.. as long as Frank will allow me to be a last minute show up
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well that could be a good possibility..

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honestly what the conflict is with my attending is the Land Speed Racing being held at Maxton, NC is the weekend before the Fireblades Event... and I'm not sure I'd be back intime AND could take the extra time off since I'd be having Friday and Monday off for driving as it is... I'll know when the time comes closer.. as long as Frank will allow me to be a last minute show up
Yup. I'll be in Maxton too. I plan on hitting 220MPH with a stock wheelbase, stock hieght Busa. (No, you can't know about the suspension and engine secrets. Just know that the bike has already been 201 in the standing mile. That other 19MPH is going top be tough to find, but I think I can do it.
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Yup. I'll be in Maxton too. I plan on hitting 220MPH with a stock wheelbase, stock hieght Busa. (No, you can't know about the suspension and engine secrets. Just know that the bike has already been 201 in the standing mile. That other 19MPH is going top be tough to find, but I think I can do it.
OMG that's too cool.. well I hope I can make it .. at this time I'm plannin on it... just gotta make sure my bike meets all their requirements as well as my leathers .. got the forms downloaded just ain't filled 'em out yet and sent my money in.. my freind Deb that is a regular there is whom I'm gonna hook up with once there.. I hope to see you TOO

and no worries I won't be pickin your brain for secrets LOL... I'm too much into the drag racing - I just wanna do the LSR for fun to say I've done it from all I've heard and read it's totally different than dragracin the quarter so I highly doubt I'll do any good mph's but the experience is what I'm geek about

I didnt' look to see where you were from before postin but how far from the track are ya?

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