Plenty of time on my hands this past week, so I headed back out to the garage to work on the Silver Gixxer. Still had a problem though, one of the subframe bolts (known to Suzuki as a seat rail bolt) had still not come in. So I went to a local Moto shop and had them fabricate me one.
One of these things is not like the other!
Still had an issue though, get out the old bolt that sheared off in the wreck. So I drilled a hole through it and tapped a star bit into it.
And it came right out!
Beast watches for the bad man.
GOT IT! WOO-HOO!
Grabbed the service manual, the under tray, and the rest of all the bolts.
Torqued the seat rail bolts to spec from the manual. Fabricated one worked like a charm!
Subframe mounted! Starting to look like a bike again!
Routed all the wiring, mounted the undertray, connected all harness connectors, mounted battery.
See how pretty the routing was done? :grin:
Is that the bad man over there?
Mount tank, connect power to fuel pump, fuel line, and both vent tubes.
Add tail fairing, seat, mounted right passenger peg and bolted on muffler brace, and OMFG, it looks like a bike again!
Took it for a spin and everything seems to be working properly. Did about 100 miles on it over the weekend and I am SO glad to be back on the 1k... Love that power!
Now to sand and start painting the fairings! More to come!