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with no forks for swing arm?


I have a U shaped piece of wood I used on my 1k with a floor jack, but the 600 may need to sit on something for a few weeks.


should i just make another one and bolt em together?

haunter wrote:with no forks for swing arm?


I have a U shaped piece of wood I used on my 1k with a floor jack, but the 600 may need to sit on something for a few weeks.


should i just make another one and bolt em together?

H,
You may need to make the wooden "bracket" deeper than the 1k as I believe the 600 pipe actually hangs lower <?>

What I did before I got front and rear stands was that I took all of the fairings and fairing brackets off, then used a pair of cinderblocks with two by fours on it to hold it up. With the bike on the kickstand, I put it under one of the engine cradle rails, then rocked the bike up onto that side and slit the cinderblack with two by four under the other side. If you did that with two cinderblocks per side and a long enough two by four, you could support the whole thing without and forks or swinger on there.

That's all I did.

I used 2x6s (in green) and made the following (the grey blocks represent where the sub rails would sit.):

the_finch wrote:What I did before I got front and rear stands was that I took all of the fairings and fairing brackets off, then used a pair of cinderblocks with two by fours on it to hold it up. With the bike on the kickstand, I put it under one of the engine cradle rails, then rocked the bike up onto that side and slit the cinderblack with two by four under the other side. If you did that with two cinderblocks per side and a long enough two by four, you could support the whole thing without and forks or swinger on there.

The cinder blocks would worry me for scratching up the frame rails if it moved at all and I have had a block shatter when the load was too great in one point whilst rocking the bike (in this case a 750 Seca if memory serves.

yamaha_george wrote:

the_finch wrote:What I did before I got front and rear stands was that I took all of the fairings and fairing brackets off, then used a pair of cinderblocks with two by fours on it to hold it up. With the bike on the kickstand, I put it under one of the engine cradle rails, then rocked the bike up onto that side and slit the cinderblack with two by four under the other side. If you did that with two cinderblocks per side and a long enough two by four, you could support the whole thing without and forks or swinger on there.

The cinder blocks would worry me for scratching up the frame rails if it moved at all and I have had a block shatter when the load was too great in one point whilst rocking the bike (in this case a 750 Seca if memory serves.

Mine wasn't the best idea in the world, but it's just what I did before I knew any better.

Rage's idea looks good to me, and if I had to put it up for a while (like I will soon with the fork work I'm about to do) I'd go with his way.

If I really needed to work on things, I would throw ratchet straps over the rafters in the garage or the main beam in the basement and lift the bike. 2 ratchet straps held it up with no problems. Really helped with reassembly too.

get two metal rods or posts and slide them through the bike, then support the rod ends with wood or blocks.

Pull off the header and use a milk crate under the oil pan?

Invite Harry Potter over and just have him levitate the bike? Hey everyone else was throwing out ideas.

Motorcycle Jack from harbor freight for $80...
its whats holding up the motor in that yzf600 $100 post Bmiller posted

I had thought about yanking the exhaust as its coming off anyways


its an old commerical building Im keeping it in, so the rafter are like....12-14 feet up. and covers with ceiling ties.


some metal rods and jack stands seem like a good idea!

TK: harry potter? screw that, hermonie can come over anytime though....


Geo: I def would need to add ~2 inches for the 600, especially because I had a nice 4-2-1 supertrap setup on my 88 I made this for so the 600 header is way deeper.

I have F&R stands, but they do me no good when I am yaking the forks/triples and swingarm off

shredex wrote:Motorcycle Jack from harbor freight for $80...
its whats holding up the motor in that yzf600 $100 post Bmiller posted

SHRED!
what a great idea!
a motorcycle jack! who would have thought!
and they only cost about $80 at harbor frieght!

here is one holding up a motor!


and look! it hold motorcycles as well!
easy to swap forks and swingarm at the same time!



the motorcycle/ATV jack! Get one today!

haunter wrote:II have F&R stands, but they do me no good when I am yanking the forks/triples and swingarm off

Yup must admit I cheated and used the ratchet straps idea with a fork lift truck Tines as the overhead, trouble is now I no longer available. Boo hiss the greedy bankers creating this recession