| Author | Message | ||
     984gasm |
Ok, so my bike hasn't been sounding normal lately, so got under and inspected.. Here's the problem. I'm going to email Kevin and see if this can be salvageable or not.. I really hope so, because I don't want to drop another $500.. No idea when this happened or even how, Guessing bottomed out somewhere in the city at one point.   | ||
| No_rice |
yep, that blows. i destroyed the bottom of my stock one, but so far my SS is holding up well. | ||
| Paint_shaker |
It just needs a little JB weld and a skid plate... | ||
| Slaughter |
Good muffler shop should re-weld no problem. Bet you don't have to pay more than $50 (unless the mounts and headers are bent too) | ||
| 984gasm |
so it is re-weldable.. I have plenty of friends who are welders, so maybe I can just show to them and see if it's something they can fix. Im also waiting to get Kevin's advice on it. | ||
| Altima02 |
Yeah, just get it fixed locally. Shouldn't be very much. And quit jumpin curbs!  | ||
| 984gasm |
haha.. who told you. The streets just get too crowded sometimes, so you just have to man up.. Unfortunately problems like this occur, that's why I need a supermotard for around the city. | ||
| Cmm213 |
Before you fix it look and see how much packing you lost out of that hole. | ||
| Djkaplan |
I welded a little skid plate on the back of my muffler because of that very problem. | ||
| Drift |
I'm sure Kevin will take of ya. | ||
| Reepicheep |
You are in NY, get Henrik to weld it for you. (Henrik needs a little prompting to go get that welder he has been drooling over for the last two years  ) | ||
| Henrik |
Henrik needs a little prompting... I usually need *very* little prompting to buy tools, however funding demands I choose between getting the SV track ready OR buy more shop toys ... Henrik | ||
| Reepicheep |
C'mon Henrik, you are loosing your edge! *Surely* you can come up with something that you need for the track bike that you could buy off the shelf for $80... ... but instead buy a $1000 welder and spend 30 hours fabricating some doodad that only half works anyway. You know, like a track stand or gps mount or something... Not that I have done that or anything.  | ||
| Road_thing |
Been there, melted that... rt | ||
| Henrik |
Weeell - I do need to come up with some new headlight/instrument cluster brackets for the GSXR front end I'm grafting onto it .... Hmmmmmm.  Henrik | ||
| M1combat |
Just hammer it back to pretty normal and weld it up... You might try to get the bottom somewhat shaped correctly though as that's right where the straps are. | ||
| 984gasm |
Kevin is helping me out with it, want it done right.. | ||
| 984gasm |
The only problem is that I am carrying in my messenger bag on the subway to ship it out at my office and the top half is sticking out, looks kinda like a bomb.. My sister told me not to shave for a couple of days and watch people sweat. |
