TECHNICAL MOTOBRICK WRENCHING In Remembrance of Inge K. > Project Classic Motobricks

OEM Shock Rebuild

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UltraBird:
@Rcgreaves

Looking inside the fuel tank with a light it appears clean.
I'm NOT enjoying the process of working on this bike, it's a PITA! and I've been wrenching on bikes since I was 11 years old with a Honda 50...

For example it took several hours just to remove the rear shock, granted I am doing heavy cleaning on everything I expose. I had to dis-mount both halves of the rear fender, the coolant reservoir and the brake fluid reservoir just to slide the rear shock out after it's mounting bolts were removed. And to remove the mounting bolts I had to remove the right side front and rear fairings and dis-mount the rear brake master cylinder...

Putting the newly rebuilt shock in tomorrow will be like putting a baby back into it's mother shortly after birth.

The front shock and steering dampener should be loads of fun... I ordered this to little work stool from McMaster Carr to try and ease my pain, wish I had it today but it won't arrive until Monday


My center and side stand did come back from the powder coat shop I'll see if I can post pics here... the inner surface of the pivots in the center stand need a little polish with a Dremel and a finer abrasive. You can see the dust on it from my 1st pass. This is "60% Semi Gloss Black" and they did a nice thin coat so it looks "painted" not "coated".
I have had recurring problems with getting powder coated parts back from several different shops that look like they were dipped in liquid plastic and I had to take them elsewhere to be stripped and redone. Some shops in my region seem to think that the benchmark of powder coat quality is how thick a coating they can lay on. No problem with this job, I'll use them again.

Laitch:
Just to verify, Ultrabird, do you realize that your K1200 is not the type of motorcycle to which this forum is dedicated? That is why you came up empty in a thorough search here earlier about rear fender adjustment.

UltraBird:
I was not aware of that. I'll get off this forum.

frankenduck:

--- Quote from: UltraBird on April 01, 2023, 08:37:48 PM ---I was not aware of that. I'll get off this forum.

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Meh. It's not a big deal. It's just that you probably won't get a lot of help here because most of us here are stuck in the The Dark Ages of K bikes. I have a 97 Taxi RS so I do find your posts interesting,

And at least you're not posting about R bikes. :laughing4-giggles:

Laitch:

--- Quote from: UltraBird on April 01, 2023, 08:37:48 PM ---I was not aware of that. I'll get off this forum.

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Here's a forum with a significant population of K1200 owners, UltraBird.

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