My FZR600R Foxeye Restoration

[cad600]

The Foxeye and Thundercat both use shock about 360mm long. The YZF750, Thunderace (YZF1000) and FZR1000 all use shocks that are about 340mm long.

I don't think it is a 750 shock though. Here is a picture of my stock 750 shock. It does not have the top spring compressor as in your picture.

[dougs]

Hells bells keep finding faulty parts on the rear suspension the bottom shock mount and the main swing arm bearings are all shot, not happy

this is the bottom bearing for the shocker

all the needle rollers have fallen out of the swingarm bearings

and the shaft is totally u/s as well


time to get fixing,,,, i have a plan

[Yamster]

The beauty with buying 20 yr old second hand bikes sometimes Doug.
Makes you wonder what some people think,a wrench i ain't,but somethings are not that hard.Makes you think some people dont deserve a bike.
I had a kawi that i had to take to an enginneers,just to get the swing arm bolt out once.I litrally destroyed the swing arm bolt with a lump hammer(4lb)and chisel braying it,and the thing still would'nt budge .
Good work there though friend,at least when its done,you will know its right .

[dougs]

ok clean up time been busy sorting out all the good bits from the bad bits ready for rebuilding, still have a choice to make on the swingarm though option1 is i get a new set of bearings and bush bar for £44 plus postage or i get a whole swing arm from the breakers for £25 all in. Any way photos of the clean up so far;

back wheel all cleaned up

sprocket, rear wheel spacers and adjusters all ready for assembly

swingarm end plates cleaned up ready for paint

rear caliper bar all painted up ready

wheel alignment plate painted
my new tricasting should come soon so should be able to start putting her back together soon

[jallen]

Out of interest where do you get Bearings and the bar for £44? I am hoping the swingarm/suspension bearings on mine are okay.

The bike came with a list of things that needed doing from a fairly well respected bike shop so I am hoping that they wouldn't have missed the swingarm. They picked up that one fork seal had a slight leak and that the rear wheel bearings needed replacing so I am hoping not.

Also, in an earlier post you mentioned cleaning the sight glass window are you able to do this without dropping the sump off?

John

[dougs]

Ok the swing arm bush and bearings are from yambits on eBay and it is very easy to miss the swing arm bush and bearings you really can't tell till you strip it all down
As for cleaning the sight glass I simply emptied the oil and removed the sight glass with a seal removal tool (like a dentist tooth pick) best to put it back with some gasket sealant if you use the original just to be sure it won't leak

[dougs]

ok lots of new and repaired bits to put back together

painted swinger

box of cleaned up parts ready to go back on

and last but not least the new swingarm bush and bearings

Swinger before it was cleaned

[jallen]

The swingarm looks really good what was it done with.

John

[dougs]

Hi John I cleaned it up and wet sanded it then flapwheeled all the welds that were not clean and then sprayed smooth hammerite silver as it's a fairly soft paint it should be pretty long lived, I used it a few years ago on my diversion swingarm with good results

[dougs]

all back together at last



unfortunately this job has raised loads of new jobs i now have to do but the bike is now fully working yipee

[jallen]

Looks really good but I would tempted to mount the rear shock reservoir above the subframe lower rail assuming it fits of course.



John

[dougs]

Thanks I will have a look and see if it fits I have got to make a bracket for it as well don't like fixing things with ty-raps

[jallen]

Thanks I will have a look and see if it fits I have got to make a bracket for it as well don't like fixing things with ty-raps

The tie wrap thing is a bit rubbish. On the YZF750 there is a bracket attached to the rail which a jubilee clip passes through.



The bracket on the PowersportsPro site is showing as being on backorder but it would be neat. I am rubbish at metalwork but making a bracket like that wouldn't be too difficult.

John

[dougs]

thanks John i have moved it and it looks way better i am definitely going to make a bracket will post a pic when i have done it your diagram has given me some useful inspiration!

ok so i have now made a bracket;

fabricated it out of some scrap aluminum bits i had and welded them together with tecno weld fantastic stuff and really easy to use bit like lead soldering

the finished article

[apsolus]

wow thats better than stock. super cool how you hid it