It's finished!!!!! :cheer::cheer:
I'm picking it up tomorrow, had some family duties to attend to this afternoon, just another lesson in patience for me lol
It turned out to be more 'tricky' than he initially estimated, as these things do... The shaft was the least of the issues. MRGM was correct in that the bottom of the fz6 shaft is too small for the R6 triple. What he ended up doing was building up the bottom of the shaft with weld and lathed it to the correct size. Also fabricted a sleve so that the top of the shaft fit snug into the top triple. All good though, did not need to buy extra bits like the crown nut and associated, and expensive, alloy other bits.
What did give cause for some more thought were a few 'fiddly' bits.
The whole front end is closer to the rest of the bike causing some parts of the frame to get into the way (more on this below). I understand that this is changing the geometry a bit. I imagine that it will 'fall' into corners more easily among other things. Anyone have any thoughts or anything on how this will affect the feel of the bike?
The ignition was attached with anti-theft bolts. He said to get past this he welded some metal onto the top of the bolts and used that to twist them out, much easier than drilling and re-tapping. The ignition is in roughly the same position as it was on the fz6 triple. Roughly. It was a bit closer to the frame than before and caused the first irreversable modification - which I authorised, I'm not selling this bike anyway. The new positioning of the ignition required some of the frame to be ground off, and another hole drilled for the steering lock mechanism to work.
Also, the steering stoppers were in a diff position, and they were in the way, so off they came and new ones were welded on so they lined up properly.
The headlight assembly also did not bolt straight on. Another frame was fabricated so that it fit onto the bottom and top R6 triples.
He had some risers from another bike (thankfully they are black and colour match) that will bolt onto the R6r top triple. To make this stronger, the flanges on the underside (where the R6 clipons would have been attached) have been ground off and two pieces made to fit into the space left behind, one for the left riser and one for the right riser. These act a giant 'washers' and sit snuggly into the space left in the underside of the top triple.
He has described it as looking like it came off the factory floor. I'm really hanging out to see it and ride it home now!
He has also taken a series of photos which he's providing to me on an SD card. I'll upload a selection and take a few more myself to show yas the end result tomorrow.
All this for a princely sum of $700. I'll provide some more numbers of how much everything cost me, just so that you can have an idea of it for your selves - and give me the opportunity to catalogue this journey.
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