It's still winter right? I mean its not really Spring until you spend your tax return and mod your sled...

I couldn't wait for my bars to come in from BR, so I decided to get the powdercoating out of the way...I'll continue this thread in a few weeks when my bars come in. Took a week off work to teardown, powdercoat, and rebuild since I'm not exactly a wrench.

Mods for this round:
- Progressive lowering drop-ins (gonna go about 1-1.5" lower...going to insert a 1/2"-3/4" spacer. Instructions say no spacer will give 2" drop, and the spacer is 2" so we'll see how this works out, I couldn't find any threads about partial spacers and inches of drop)
- All-***** bearings (I only have 3k miles on the bike, but I figured now is a good time)
- Powdercoating
-- Front Fork Lowers
-- Triple Tree's
-- Front/Rear brake rotors
-- Rear Sprocket
-- Headlight
-- Center Console
-- Air cleaner (this upgrade + Powervision will be winter mods)

I'll try to do a lessons learned as far as tools and such to save someone some grief after the rebuild.

Teardown took a full day taking my time, no major issues yet. Powdercoater tomorrow with 24 hr turn time.

 

Pics continued...

 

You going to add a tank lift kit? DK Custom sells em already black.
I used one like this 2" I got off ebay and painted it to match.

 

I would never get anything done to my bike if i lived in SoCal, Hawaii, or Florida. Its going to be nice when you are done.

 

Twaffle looks like you are having fun.
FYI, You will drop exactly 2" without the PVC spacer

 

looking good keep up the pics . How hard was to do your front end ? I want to do my fork covers and triple tree's.

 

Kowan - I am leaning towards it, and will most likely do it during the bar install in a few weeks. I'm really leaning towards only a one inch though...might fab something up.

Blue - The front end was a little more involved than I initially thought. The forks are kind of a pain to get apart, you'll need a 7/16 Allen to get the lowers off and some ingenuity (a table vice would have been great). You have to completely disco your electrical and loosen your clutch/remove handle to actually get the triple tree completely off, this also requires you to remove your dash console, and at a minimum slide your tank back to access all the electrical connections....additionally on your triple tree the steering stem is connected to a bearing on the lower triple tree, I didn't expect this. My local Indy that is in mounting/remounting my rubber is going to press out, and press in a new steering stem bearing before/after PC'ing. No big deal I just hadn't planned for it.

 

Looking good! GREAT call on the bearings...I had 2 wheel bearing failures under warranty...one at 6k and the second at 13k...second one at 65 mph which did 1200 bucks damage and almost did me in...not funny...Timken or All *****, for less than 50 bucks total you don't have to worry when your going 100-110 mph...which was what I was doing 1 hour before my second bearing failure...at the track of course......................................

 

Awesome looking bike! That's my favorite color scheme on that bike. I can't wait to see what it looks like when you are finished.

 

That is going to be a great looking bike when you are done. I like to see others make all of these changes. Saves me a lot of cash over doing it myself.