Re: JamesHambleton 87' VFR750 Liz
Done a tonne of cleaning of parts today as well as measuring up, good and bad news... atleast for me. Might be needing custom yokes unless I can manage to somehow claim back a few extra mm on the front.
To claim back a few mm (I'm thinking of spacing out the front discs which is less than ideal, or somehow finding some discs that have the same bolt pattern and pitch but I've got no idea where to start looking this up. Discuss pro's and cons with that please. I think custom yokes will cost more than new discs?
Here is a photo of the mocked up rear end that I took before the build off (thanks to Cookie and his thread for the details)
I wasn't happy with how rusty the rear nut, axle and rear disc looked - also a pre-build off photo
Video won't embed so here is the link
https://1drv.ms/v/s!ArP4grxhMWOpnhO3YhlTyi8c1GV0
I started with cleaning up the nut, look at them bubbles go (and that is real time as you can also hear from the song)
A bit better than before
Still not 100% happy with it but it's much much better than what it was, just the inside of the axle letting it down now.
So onto the front end... The axle bolt came today
fitted the axle bolt and pumped out the pistons in the calipers to make sure they were centered and on the disc correctly.
Poor photo but this shows that I need a 5mm spacer for the caliper to clear the disc.
And this one shows how much of the spacer needs to have removed to get the alignment correct. 4mm
With the current spacing I'm roughly at 204mm but to get the alignment correct for the disc I lose 8mm, putting me down to 196mm and there isn't any yokes with that eye to eye distance. Lowest I can find is 204 (08-10 cbr1000rr) so it's either spacing out the discs, somehow finding some offset discs or buying some custom yokes.
Here is a load of measurements for the rc24 frame, axle points, swing arm pins ect.I don't want to clutter them all on the thread as they're kinda irrelevant for now - that and this thread isn't lacking in other photos
https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArP4grxhMWOpnh8aUFzIhM9ezbHA