Some winter updates!

[bmccrary]

Well, its my last night home before school starts back up and for the past couple of weeks I have been messing around the ol' FZ taking care of some issues that needed to be addressed.

So today I got her all buttoned up again and a nice clean and polish.

I ended up on a whim pulling the front end down and changing the fork oil. I upped the fork oil to 15w in hopes of making it a bit more firm.

Also, while I was at I pulled the tripple tree, cleaned and repacked the stearing head bearings.

Extended the brake light harness. I had cut it too short last winter when I spliced into the rear tail light as a power source for the intercom system.

Fixed my broken ground wire on the air horn.

Last but not least:

I now have POD lights. I also wired them so that they are turn signals as well. I didnt use relays, just simply wired them up. They have an alternating flash, which I think is pretty neat. Picked up some amber 194 bulbs at the parts store to complete the mod.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzFEw58iQg&feature=channel_page"]YouTube - POD Light[/ame]

quick little vid of them in action. I have putting the POD light off all last year. I am stoked that I finally have it done.

-bryan

 

[Ghost Weim]

Very nice Bryan! I like!

 

[bmccrary]

Very nice Bryan! I like!

Thank ya!

-bryan

 

[fz6joker]

I thought I wouldn't like the alternating lights.... until I saw this! :rockon:

 

[YamahaMAXdRPMs]

Thank ya!

-bryan

999 posts? sweeet! Make the 1000th a good one

 

[D-Mac]

Those POD lights are awesome! Nice work. :thumbup:

 

[OZXJR]

I,m going to do the pod indicators as well,nice work.

 

[ant_mb]

Cool man! I did the pod lights last summer and love them, I'm sure you will too. I ordered a set of bearings and will install them once the weather warms up. How much work was it to access them? I'm planning on ordering a set of R6 forks so I'll probably do the bearing then.

 

[DefyInertia]

Nice work

Did you change your fork preload while you had them apart or was it already just right?

 

[bmccrary]

Cool man! I did the pod lights last summer and love them, I'm sure you will too. I ordered a set of bearings and will install them once the weather warms up. How much work was it to access them? I'm planning on ordering a set of R6 forks so I'll probably do the bearing then.

Getting to the bearings is easy. The hardest part to me is just dealing with all the controlls to pull the bars off. Mainly it was just the throttle, as I have never delt with a two cable system.

-bryan

 

[bmccrary]

Nice work

Did you change your fork preload while you had them apart or was it already just right?

No I didnt cut the spacer or make a new one. I do not have a good/accurate way to cut the spacer here at home. However at school I have access to one of those large horrizontal, liquid cooled, self lowering giant saws. I might do some cutting then. However I have not taken any measurements yet as to the sag or anything. So I would be making an unwise cut at this point.

I plan on pulling the rear end appart when I get back to school. I want to measure the spring rate of the rear spring and get some measurements. As well as play with the shock dyno and see what our shocks are rated at and learn how to use that dyno. While Im at it I will repack the swingarm bearings.

-bryan

 

[bmccrary]

Well you cant work on the front end with out working on the rear end... right!?!?!

I just finished pulling the swingarm and shock off. Its more work that I thought it would be, but not bad. Have to remove the exhaust to get the swingarm off. No biggy though.

Bout to head up to the lab with the shock to test the spring rate and possibly put the shock on the shock dyno. We shall see... Update late tonight.

-bryan