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500 K cafe racer conversion - build thread
Ewan 500 K1:
Removed the rear shocker bushes from the swing arm this morning ... bit stubborn !. Hammer and WD 40 got me nowhere
Ewan 500 K1:
after searching the forums , I found the answer . 2 sockets and a vice. One socket the same diameter as the outer sleeve on the bush and another much bigger socket that the first one will fit inside. First I gave the bush a good balst with a blow gun, then ....Place one socket each side of the bush. Place in vice and tighten vice .... the bushes were so damn immovable that I had to put a pieve of pipe on the vice handle to get enough force to get the bushes out .... now got a vice with a nicely curved handle ;)
Ewan 500 K1:
didnt go quite so smoothly with the second bush. The smaller socket I was using ended up being slightly smaller than the outer bush sleeve and I overdid it with the blow torch and burnt the rubber out . End result of the vice job was that just the inner sleeve and the rubber came out leaving the outer sleeve embedded in the swinging arm. So ... had to (very carefully) cut the sleeve length wise top and bottom with a hacksaw balde to get it out as I didnt have a scocket of exactly the right size.
Ewan 500 K1:
Shimmed up the brake capliper arms so that the calipers are in line with the discs. The right hand side was fine without modification. On the left hand side I needed to use three washer on the top front caliper bolt , 2 washers on the top rear bolt and 2 washers on the bottom bolt. Looking at the pictures the mudguard stay looks a bit odd ... have I got in positioned correctly with the top caliper arm brackets ? See my sepeate post at http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php?topic=5571.msg27566#msg27566 for the pain and agony of setting up my dual discs
Ewan 500 K1:
Now I know why the forks were replaced with 550 ones ... bent steering stem = front end crash in the past. . A bit disconcerting , hope whoever was riding at the time made it through it without too many injuries. I can nick the one off the 500 basket case that is / was / might be restored in the future ... but maybe I'll just carry on with the bent one ... it never appeared to affect performance over the past 17 years :-\
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