Frankenstein Buell V1.2

[jakestolar]

I'll come up on a s tail eventually.....

They are tough to come by at a decent price!

 

[jakestolar]

The wife is out with her girlfriends time to play!!!

 

[jakestolar]

Well I am completely shmammered Here are some pics of this evenings progress!

this is what everything looks like to me right now

 

[50dro]

That's one sexy pulley cover! Where did you get it?!?!?!? LOL

Looking good man!! I'm happy to see it coming together after what the bike went through!

5-0dro
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[jakestolar]

I'm happy to see it coming together after what the bike went through!

I know man she has had a rough year!

 

[v_twinsam]

Seriously a kitchen workshop I have a cold a$$ garage with crap lighting. Love the paint on the pulley. Looks good but I notice we can't see your oil filter happy thanksgiving!!

 

[jakestolar]

Hahaha I know I know I said I would change it! I may still this weekend but I dont have the filter on hand and I had all these other parts waiting to go on, so it only seemed right to put them on first!

I want a garage so BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy turkey day to all!

 

[jakestolar]

Alright! todays progress
New bracket for the shock. MUCH improved! Not only looks but the feel of the bike is once again as she was!
Ohh and the damn oil filter is now black!
enjoy

 

[OldGeezer]

hey jakestolar, looks good and a nice tidy solution. I'm assuming you (or someone) welded the flat bars together, which should work fine if done properly, especially as your flat bars look like they're about 3/8" thick. Keep an eye on the welds though and check them periodically for cracking, depending on the process and the welder's qualifications fillet welds and lap welds can be prone to cracking. I'd also have rounded the corners of the flat bars , putting at least a 3/8" radius on them to eliminate the stress riser created by the sharp corner and the weld across the flat. I'm not trying to scare you or anything, just saying keep checking the welds periodically. I used to design pressure welded pressure vessels and did ASME quality control & weld inspection, just in case you were wondering WTF does he know what he's talking about

 

[jakestolar]

I am defiantly no stellar welder! I just have my little flux core welder. Hell I spent more time cleaning up the slag than anything!
I am taking it easy for the time being, only riding solo and nothing crazy to test out the bracket and see what happens. my goal, if this bracket works out well, is to have one designed in CAD and have ti cut out of a chunk of aluminum.
If my wife loved me she would buy me a mig welder!!!

Thanks for the Tips Geezer. Looks like I will pre and post flight my bike!

 

[OldGeezer]

You're welcome jakestolar, those little welders can do a lot of really good work, but they don't get a lot of penetration, especially as the base metals get thicker and cleanliness is critical in your weld prep. Pre & post flight everytime for a while and then at least once a week is a very good idea. While the metal you used looks fairly thick and shouldn't flex any, you still have reversing loads on those welds (push & pull) as the suspension works. Reversing loads are tricky as they promote fatigue failure (think of bending a paper clip back & forth). I'm not saying yours are going to fail, just trying to explain why you should keep an eye on them. If you see a really fine dark line or lines starting to appear running off from a corner, or a weld, or along the outside edge of a weld it could be a crack and should be checked out either using dye penetrant or magnetic particle examination.

What happens is water seeps into these really tight cracks and stays damp after the parts dry and dirt sticks to the dampness at the surface of the metal. A poor man's "mag" particle inspection might be to spray the welds with WD40 or some penetrating oil, wash them off & dry them then sprinkle talcum powder over them and blow it off. It should stick to the oil that stays trapped in any hairline cracks and give you a faint white hairline on the metal. Course this is not as good as a real dye pen or mag particle test and depending on whether you have any undercuts in your welds it could give you false positives too

Your plan to go with a billet aluminium piece is excellent, especially if you have a buddy who is a machinist or knows one who owes him a favour

If you are not in a hurry for it, I could draw you up a part in CAD suitable for a machinist to produce the piece. It would be a 2D machining drawing as all I have is a 2D CAD program. However it should be quite sufficient for a custom part like this. It might take me a couple of months as I would be doing it in my free time, of which I have very little at present, but it would be a fun project. All you would need to do is send me all the dimensions & measurements, such as ID of the clevis, OD of the lug, diameters of the holes, centre to centre distance of the bolt holes etc…

Happy Thanksgiving to all

 

[jakestolar]

Geezer,
You are the man! I will pull out my caliper and get some measurements. The only problem is the earliest I would be able to get it to you is early next year. But that would be AWEOSME! I haven't messed with CAD since I was a senior in high school..

 

[gtp3800]

05 Lightning xb12RSCG

got my bolt front end on! special thanks to Jakestolar, Wolfo68, Freak2180, and oh9bolt for all their help.

Ill get some pictures out this upcoming week when I get my bars in from ASB. weather will be in the 30's but will totally be worth it.

 

[jakestolar]

^^^ Cant wait!

I took my bike to work this week. Holy S*it 38 degrees at 80-90 mph is wicked cold. To the bone! I really need some winter gear. Hint hint wife!

 

[jakestolar]

Here is a before and after on the shock bracket

 

[OldGeezer]

Hey jakestolar, you're welcome.

I'll start on the drawings whenever you get me the dims. Try to get me enough dims to redraw the lug & clevis as well, I like to draw parts in relationship to their attachment points, you can sometimes see potential problems ahead of time that way.

I was giving this some though and it occured to me that this part could probably be made pretty cheaply, labour-wise in a home garage, all you'd really need is a good drill press and bandsaw along with a file or dremel. Getting the billet blank may be more of a challenge.

I think the bike looks better with the new shock bracket. Have you noticed any difference in handling since the raise? Nice looking rearsets BTW, where did you get them?

Bike is looking good gtp3800

 

[gtp3800]

Bike is looking good gtp3800

thanks!

 

[jakestolar]

That sounds good! I will get every measurement I can. I was thinking I would find a machine shop to do the dirty work for me, the only reason is, I want to put a "C" shaped grove in the top for the shock to sit in, instead of my 2 horizontal bars to prevent movement. I think it would look real clean!

Which raise? The tail raise or when I made my shock bracket an inch to long? I LOVE the tail raise. I didnt notice much of a difference with it but it did take some time to get used to. Now when I made the bracket to long and the ass end was way high in the air the bike handled like garbage. Now that I have the bracket closer to what is should be it is real nice!
The rear sets are Woodcrafts. I hated the aluminum color so I wet sanded and painted.

GTP3800 if you want I have 2 bent bars you can have! Give your bike a nice beach cruiser look!

 

[oh9bolt]

got my bolt front end on! special thanks to Jakestolar, Wolfo68, Freak2180, and oh9bolt for all their help.

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[jakestolar]

Funny to think that my bike used to look like this