| Author | Message | ||
     Telewoodski |
I'm in the middle of doing a once through with the XB, checking it out and just having fun with it. I got to this point, and the manual talks about using straps from the ceiling to drop the motor out of the frame. Has anyone else come up with a better way to do it? Maybe some pics of their method. My plan is to streamline the process, and convert the bike from track days to street riding in an evening. Any suggestions?  (Message edited by telewoodski on February 10, 2006) | ||
| Ratyson |
Holy moly that looks like a lot of work! I don't have any useful input, only a question. What changes between track day and street riding are you doing that would require this? | ||
| Xb9 |
Not much to it aye? You could leave the engine on the floor and lift the frame off the engine (it's not heavy!) Too bad you didn't remove the muffler before you got in on the floor, then you could have blocked up the engine real nice to stabilize it. | ||
| Cataract2 |
I think there's a section in the manual that also tells you how to lift the frame from the motor. That might be easier that dropping it. Rat, actually, doing all that is pretty easy. Takes about 3-4 hours total if you're good with a wrench. | ||
| Mr_cuell |
From track to street and back shouldn't require too much - mostly just getting access to a few bolts to wire them. I would put shock back in it, put it on a rear stand and then remove motor. In lieu of a rear stand I used to two full 25lb chlorine buckets (plentiful in my business), placing the swingarm on lip of each one. It wasn't the best, but it worked. You'll want to purchase good stands if you are going to the track and back anyway, as tires will continually be coming on and off. | ||
| Telewoodski |
Ratyson, it wasn't to bad at all, although I must not be much of a mechanic, it took me a little more than 3 or 4 hours. Cataracrt might be able to pull if off in that time, me....ah took me a couple of nights after work. Now that I've done it once, and I get a couple of tools lined out, it should go about that fast, depending on how many beers I have.  It's winter here, and the only thing I'm riding right now is the 700 RMK. I just bought a new townhouse and it has a garage, can you say yeehaa! I was storing the bike, but now it's in my garage and I spend more time with it than I do watching the tube. I haven't even unboxed some of my stuff, I've been so stoked to be working on my bike. I rode it pretty hard this summer, and put her away dirty. I also bought it used and wanted to go through the whole thing and check torque settings and such. Working on the XB is awesome. You can tell someone put a lot of thought into the design and implementation of the package. It's like a swiss watch. Now, if I lift the frame off and move it over there...and set it on my new XBRR engine, then I'd be ready to go the races. Ooops, there I go day dreaming again. I've been sitting at this desk way to long.  | ||
| Olinxb12r |
That looks familier! I did that to paint my frame and swingarm last summer. If you're going to take the frame and swingarm off the motor you might think about doing some powdercoating. That is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to lift the frame. Here are some pics of my project.      | ||
| Telewoodski |
Olin, that looks good. I am going to pull the frame tonight. I wonder if the frame would good with the Line-x on it? I think I'm going to do the Line-x under the tail section. I will take a look at the frame tonight and see if powder coat is an option, with all the holes and such to keep an eye on, so I can get it back together. | ||
| Olinxb12r |
Tele, if you take your time getting everything taped up for the powdercoater, or really trust them to do a good job you shouldn't have any problems at all. I don't even think it would be very expensive to get it done either. One of the guys here in KC got his swingarm powdercoated a couple weeks ago and I think it was pretty reasonable. I also think Line-x would work fine on the frame and swingarm. It would certainly make it hard to scratch up or dent your frame. I think you could probably have either one done for a couple hundred bucks. It would look really sweet and be tough as nails. I'm taking my front end off this weekend to paint the fork tubes, bases and triple tree black. While I'm doing that I'm also sending my wheels off to be powdercoated black and trading a buddy of mine case covers so I can have the black ones that come on a 9. I think it is going to look pretty pissed off when I'm done. Done, ha ha, that was a funny joke. Even if I had all the money in the world and thought I was finished with this bike I would still come up with something to replace, change or paint. Oh well. I think that tinkering is at least half the fun of having a motorcycle. |
