Post by davet on Apr 22, 2019 22:13:27 GMT
Here's something I did a while back. It would be needed as I was putting a fast engine in the ss. Thanks go to TZSTEVE for the lathing skills and PUGWASH for the welding. The finished forks were refitted with new loose rollers. It now stops and handles far better from original. Especially with the new acceleration.
I found a decent set of tube cutters on ebay, which made the shortening process much easier and of course give nice smooth accurate cuts. You can see how much is removed. I also cut some inserts to strengthen the fork tube where it had been cut. These would be welded in later.
I took some measurements and made sure the bearing seat could be moved back, ensuring the forks sat at the right height. If this isn't done there is a gap between the mudguard and frame. Some are ok with this but being Mr Anal, I wanted it looking stock. Steve then shortened the bearing seat in the lathe, after first moving all bits out of the way on the lathe.
You can see how much was removed to create a nice new bearing seat.
I found a decent shorter shock to maintain a stock ride height. It's from a Zip SP.
I bought the blue fibreglass mudguard years ago. However, I didn't use it because it was complete and utter shite fitting. The white one was bought for a future project. It fits perfectly to Zip SP forks.
Here they are fully welded and painted with a repositioned bracket for the mudguard.
This is to be the bracket for the handlebar hydraulics.
These tools are my 'waterjet cutter'.
After lots of dust and one arm significantly now wider than the other.
I had a new cylinder, so made up some spacers and painted the newly made bracket black. I got the connector from ebay and shortened it to match the ss narrow bars.
Finished!