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Right, I could really do with some help & advice please guys, if you'd be so kind.
I'm fightering the wife's K3 Gixer 6 (my first SF project) and have bought a 2nd hand OE top yoke to drill and fit risers for some fat dirty bars. I've gone for this route rather than a CNC billet top yoke due to costs.
I was a little concerned about possible issues of drilling through the yoke without adding any strengthening so I wanted to beef it up and spread the load out underneath, possibly with JB Weld/ally/steel & then steel washers under the nuts. Speaking to guys on another forum, they reckon filling the recess underneath the top yoke with JB Weld is a bad idea. An alternative suggestion has been to fill it with ally weld, although there are still some people saying that's not a good idea either. (I'm no welder and have no welding kit so would need to speak to an engineering shop to get this done for me.) I was wondering if a piece of ally or steel, shaped to fit the recess would be a strong enough, or better, alternative to either JB Weld or ally weld.
Obviously I don't want to run the risk of doing a bodge job and having the mountings fail but neither do I want to spend more money than is necessary on ridiculous over-engineering if it's not required.
What should I do? What's the best way forward? Thanks fellas.
I was a little concerned about possible issues of drilling through the yoke without adding any strengthening so I wanted to beef it up and spread the load out underneath, possibly with JB Weld/ally/steel & then steel washers under the nuts. Speaking to guys on another forum, they reckon filling the recess underneath the top yoke with JB Weld is a bad idea. An alternative suggestion has been to fill it with ally weld, although there are still some people saying that's not a good idea either. (I'm no welder and have no welding kit so would need to speak to an engineering shop to get this done for me.) I was wondering if a piece of ally or steel, shaped to fit the recess would be a strong enough, or better, alternative to either JB Weld or ally weld.
Obviously I don't want to run the risk of doing a bodge job and having the mountings fail but neither do I want to spend more money than is necessary on ridiculous over-engineering if it's not required.
What should I do? What's the best way forward? Thanks fellas.