Metal bending and flame question (rich??)

[Drjones]

Try a couple of plates bolted together to make a clamp on the rearset stays with a hole through the middle of them.  Then use a rod through the holes as the moment arm.  It'd be perpendicular to the bike and you wouldn't have to mess with the swing arm.  Probably would have to use a spacer on the far side of the plates about the same width as the stays to keep the plates parallel to each other and from slipping off of the stays.

[hiero]

Try a couple of plates bolted together to make a clamp on the rearset stays with a hole through the middle of them.  Then use a rod through the holes as the moment arm.  It'd be perpendicular to the bike and you wouldn't have to mess with the swing arm.  Probably would have to use a spacer on the far side of the plates about the same width as the stays to keep the plates parallel to each other and from slipping off of the stays.

Care to help a guy out?

[Drjones]

Sure.  Shoot me a pm with your schedule and also dimensions of the rear set stay dimensions so I can run some numbers.

Stay dimensions: length, width, thickness.
Stay to stay spacing.
Room from the stays to the first thing that gets in the way. i.e. swingarm

[hiero]

BIG thanks to Drjones for coming up with the rig and materials for it!  As we found out pretty deep into fixing the tabs, this is not a task for the faint of heart....





I went ahead and got some Ti axle nuts for the front and rear too    I really would like to replace the engine mount bolts with nichols units too at this point as when I pulled one out for the swingarm removal, there was surface rust on it 

All in time I guess as I still need to fix the plastics!    Anyone wanna fix some plastics for a great meal?  I cook good. 

[Drjones]

I'm probably perma banned from Hiero's house for putting greasy finger prints on his pristine white garage floor.   

[TresGatos]

Wow!  What a teardown. Hope it goes back together
right. This is way out of my league