{"id":404,"date":"2015-04-22T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=404"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T08:20:33","slug":"fork-leg-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Fork leg conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On reflection the standard bros brakes were a bit naff so as I mentioned before it was time for a modern upgrade, I removed the lugs that mounted the original calliper and have made a bracket to fit the new calliper from a Suzuki Hayabusa, I won\u2019t be attempting the welding on this part of the project as I have no way to join aluminium other than jubilee clips and nails so I have handed the parts over to Stable fabrication in Towcester <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stablefabrication.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.stablefabrication.co.uk\/<\/span><\/a> , great bunch of chaps who will have a go at anything within reason for very sensible rates. &#8211; Heisenburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/forkleg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/forkleg.jpg\" alt=\"forkleg\" width=\"430\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I collected the forks from the fabricators yesterday and was very impressed with the welding job, very neat!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Busa-brakes-welded.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Busa-brakes-welded-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Busa brakes welded\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Busa-brakes-welded-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Busa-brakes-welded-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I managed to find some time to start putting things back together, the weld had penetrated inside the tube a little and distorted the inner wall so much the stanchion would not slide inside the leg anymore, I hadn\u2019t even thought about this happening but managed to fix it easily, I made up a 38mm aluminium cylinder with a thread in one end to take about a foot of threaded bar, this went in to my drill, the other end I hacksawed a cut and attached some 400 grit emery cloth, I reamed this in and out of the fork leg for a few minutes with some thin oil and it all fits quite well now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/funky-reamer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/funky-reamer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"funky reamer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/funky-reamer-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/funky-reamer-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next job is to finally start the yokes, I have a bit of an odd design in my head but it should be fine, I\u2019d prefer to go the normal route but I couldn\u2019t blag the right size of aluminium slabs for free so second best will have to do. \u2013 Heisenburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On reflection the standard bros brakes were a bit naff so as I mentioned before it was time for a modern upgrade, I removed the lugs that mounted the original calliper and have made a bracket to fit the new calliper from a Suzuki Hayabusa, I won\u2019t be attempting the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=404\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}