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Halfway Done with swaybar
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Chupaca
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What..!!
only halfway done..times a wasting..!!:roflblack: As a matter of fact I'm waiting for the new metal hiem joints but did the bar and shock re-locators already. What a difference. Did the bar and months later the blocks and they each are an impressive improvement..good luck you will soon have a new ryde..!! :thumbup:
only halfway done..times a wasting..!!:roflblack: As a matter of fact I'm waiting for the new metal hiem joints but did the bar and shock re-locators already. What a difference. Did the bar and months later the blocks and they each are an impressive improvement..good luck you will soon have a new ryde..!! :thumbup:
Magdave
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Well the second half is done. It pretty much sucked.:yikes: If you have a 2013 and are doing this mod I highly suggest you remove the radiator shroud at least from the left side.I did not you can twist and bend that black plastic a lot (thankfully) but it would make the whole process easier. Getting the BajaRon bar in required raising it even more than the picture above until the bar goes in then I let it back down on the jacks. The biggest problem was getting the bushings into the channel. Unless you have them on the bar far enough toward the center away from the bend and lifted into the channel high enough they will not slide in. I did not have too much trouble with the right side but once that was in it restricted the movement on the left and the ability to move the bar to the left easily.
You can see the tools I had. Even though my jack is strong enough getting the Bike lifted on it and centered is a tough balancing act especially after I had to take it up a couple more inches to get the new bar in with a block of wood because my jacks were only 20" jacks. Having Spyderpops skid plate helped on that lifting it at the very rear edge. My ramps also saved me in the end because I was rushing the lift and removal of the jacks and it started to tilt until one tire touched the ramp. Hate to think what might have happened if I did not have the ramps in place.
Anyway went for a long 60mile ride afterwards. My take is if my bike was a weak 5 in handling before it is a solid 8 now. Much more stable and less skittish even on bumpy curves ( yes I found and rode them on purpose). I feel it was money well spent.
Ron's new links were a thing of beauty and pretty easy to install the only tough part was the spacer on the top of each side but not a big issue. I got my wife to help with her little fingers she pushed it up as I slid the bolt through. In fact she helped get the left side bushing in too tugging on the plastic as I struggled to get it into the channel. I am lucky to have her she did not want to get out from underneath after putting all the panels back up and kept taking my tools and saying she could reassemble her side herself.:shocked: Do take the lower wind deflectors off also it is easy enough and one less thing in the way. One last tip is you only need to remove 1 push pin (forward one) in the 2 lower panels to get a 10mm wrench on the backside of the bushing bolt instead of taking the whole panel down.
In summary was it worth it? Absolutely. Would I do it again? I would rather have bamboo shoved under my fingernails :roflblack:. Seriously I feel a lot safer and more in control than I did before and that was my goal. Now onto my next Farkle:2thumbs:
You can see the tools I had. Even though my jack is strong enough getting the Bike lifted on it and centered is a tough balancing act especially after I had to take it up a couple more inches to get the new bar in with a block of wood because my jacks were only 20" jacks. Having Spyderpops skid plate helped on that lifting it at the very rear edge. My ramps also saved me in the end because I was rushing the lift and removal of the jacks and it started to tilt until one tire touched the ramp. Hate to think what might have happened if I did not have the ramps in place.
Anyway went for a long 60mile ride afterwards. My take is if my bike was a weak 5 in handling before it is a solid 8 now. Much more stable and less skittish even on bumpy curves ( yes I found and rode them on purpose). I feel it was money well spent.
Ron's new links were a thing of beauty and pretty easy to install the only tough part was the spacer on the top of each side but not a big issue. I got my wife to help with her little fingers she pushed it up as I slid the bolt through. In fact she helped get the left side bushing in too tugging on the plastic as I struggled to get it into the channel. I am lucky to have her she did not want to get out from underneath after putting all the panels back up and kept taking my tools and saying she could reassemble her side herself.:shocked: Do take the lower wind deflectors off also it is easy enough and one less thing in the way. One last tip is you only need to remove 1 push pin (forward one) in the 2 lower panels to get a 10mm wrench on the backside of the bushing bolt instead of taking the whole panel down.
In summary was it worth it? Absolutely. Would I do it again? I would rather have bamboo shoved under my fingernails :roflblack:. Seriously I feel a lot safer and more in control than I did before and that was my goal. Now onto my next Farkle:2thumbs:
BajaRon
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MrLooney
Senior MOMENTS Member
One Piece At A Time!!
Sounds like Johny Cash's One Piece at a time Cadillac song! :roflblack:
Sounds like Johny Cash's One Piece at a time Cadillac song! :roflblack:
SpyderAnn01
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I know what you mean but I do have to do it again as soon as Ron sends me a powder coated bar!
Magdave
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Probably If I trusted my dealer. :thumbup:
Bob Denman
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I guess that it must be a bit like Childbirth... :shocked:
Once that pain initially subsides and the fun starts; it's easy to forget what was involved in the delivery! :thumbup:
(Otherwise, there'd be an awful lot of us that turned out to be our parents' only foray into furthering the species!
)
Glad that you got through it; fo log some miles and smiles!
:congrats:
Once that pain initially subsides and the fun starts; it's easy to forget what was involved in the delivery! :thumbup:
(Otherwise, there'd be an awful lot of us that turned out to be our parents' only foray into furthering the species!
)Glad that you got through it; fo log some miles and smiles!
:congrats:
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