Chipped engine block. JB weld?

[TownsendsFJR1300]

Crash cages are great for engine protection but not necessarily good at protecting the rest of the bike. I have used decent sliders in the past and after slow speed drops have had very minimal damage with just superficial damage to the sliders.
Like you I was concerned with protecting the cases so installed engine bars and stubby sliders. Unfortunately they do not protrude out as far as sliders. A flop and drop the resulted in a smashed fairing and scratched up grab rail. These had previously been saved by the sliders. I have kept the cage but abd have also installed my old sliders for good measure.

Neil

Neil, can you post a link and a pic of those engine bars, those were what I was referring to earlier. Your engine "cage' likely would have saved all of kenken's damage..

Thanks, Scott

 

[Kenfz6]

Here is an engine cage from givi that I installed a few years ago, for a bit cheaper than they are now:

FZ-6 '04-06' : TN358 - ENGINE GUARDS

and an earlier post:

http://www.600riders.com/forum/fz6-mods/32483-need-pics-givi-engine-guard-crash-bars.html

I like the look better than sliders, but have yet to test their protection in a tip over. I had a 0mph tip over that resulted in a few small scratches in the stator cover, even with a decent set of sliders installed.

 

[kenken2812]

well everyone the job is finally finished. the welder did a great job and im sure it will be a much more permanent fix, i certainly wont have to worry about the jb weld coming off at a bad time. overall for parts, the weld, oil, and paying my buddies to help me tow it around, it came to around 550. there were a couple times I got pretty hopeless but all you guys on here kept helping me out. Thanks a bunch and i'll definitely be on here more often now. im just thankful that i didnt get to badly injured and that i was able to get my bike running again, that moment of pressing the starter and hearing her kick on again was sheer elation!

 

[TownsendsFJR1300]

Looks great!!! :thumbup:


Maybe an oil and filter change a little sooner than usual, just as an additional measure should any crap got in there. :rockon: