Kawi frame bracing......
#22
Re: Kawi frame bracing......
Exactly what I did, didn't even take the motor out. Handed the guy that welded mine back after he was done $100 and he said if it ever brakes again to come back and he would weld it again.
#23
Re: Kawi frame bracing......
I check all 4 motor mounts regularly. I learned that on my old 03's
#25
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
thats really strange that you had problems then and as far as the people that say you should get a honda , i have seen plenty of f4 i frames crack right by the front motor mount too , got a local guy right now with one
#27
#31
Re: Kawi frame bracing......
u could always engineer some steel straps like i did on my subframe this weekend LMAO
https://www.stuntlife.com/forums/2-s...6-636-sub.html
https://www.stuntlife.com/forums/2-s...6-636-sub.html
Last edited by Armenian; 09-14-2009 at 04:52 PM.
#33
Re: Kawi frame bracing......
and Thats cause stuntrides the hot spot
#34
#35
Re: Kawi frame bracing......
heres what i did...
I toook a minty frame completly disassembled. I tig welded Added support bracing and gussets around the areas i had heard were weak. Heat treated at my work. Powdercoated a purdy green. Rode for 6months or something like that. Got complete bike and rims straightened from Dr. Johns in anahiem,ca. Shortly after noticed a crack. I assume it was due to straightning a heat treated and gusseted frame. Also Jason Britton had told me alittle before it cracked that " the guys at Kawi" told him never to heat treat the frames. But also to not weld.. So I dunno. But after straightning I re-powdercoated a Better Green n been running it since havasu Xdl. Crack hasn't changed much but that adjuster pinch castle nut front engine mount thingy.. Ya it stripped out the threads in frame. But I think that's my fault, had issues with first powdercoater haha
But anyway that's my story of my frame, i did everything but the powdercoating myself. i have easy access to everything needed including heat treating because my family owns a aluminum extrusion plant out here..
BUT
I'm lookn to start over with a fresh frame when I find the right deal!
so if anyone has one.. hahahahaa lemme know
Lemme know if you need anything else.
Brapppp
I toook a minty frame completly disassembled. I tig welded Added support bracing and gussets around the areas i had heard were weak. Heat treated at my work. Powdercoated a purdy green. Rode for 6months or something like that. Got complete bike and rims straightened from Dr. Johns in anahiem,ca. Shortly after noticed a crack. I assume it was due to straightning a heat treated and gusseted frame. Also Jason Britton had told me alittle before it cracked that " the guys at Kawi" told him never to heat treat the frames. But also to not weld.. So I dunno. But after straightning I re-powdercoated a Better Green n been running it since havasu Xdl. Crack hasn't changed much but that adjuster pinch castle nut front engine mount thingy.. Ya it stripped out the threads in frame. But I think that's my fault, had issues with first powdercoater haha
But anyway that's my story of my frame, i did everything but the powdercoating myself. i have easy access to everything needed including heat treating because my family owns a aluminum extrusion plant out here..
BUT
I'm lookn to start over with a fresh frame when I find the right deal!
so if anyone has one.. hahahahaa lemme know
Lemme know if you need anything else.
Brapppp
#36
#37
Re: Kawi frame bracing......
heres what i did...
I toook a minty frame completly disassembled. I tig welded Added support bracing and gussets around the areas i had heard were weak. Heat treated at my work. Powdercoated a purdy green. Rode for 6months or something like that. Got complete bike and rims straightened from Dr. Johns in anahiem,ca. Shortly after noticed a crack. I assume it was due to straightning a heat treated and gusseted frame. Also Jason Britton had told me alittle before it cracked that " the guys at Kawi" told him never to heat treat the frames. But also to not weld.. So I dunno. But after straightning I re-powdercoated a Better Green n been running it since havasu Xdl. Crack hasn't changed much but that adjuster pinch castle nut front engine mount thingy.. Ya it stripped out the threads in frame. But I think that's my fault, had issues with first powdercoater haha
But anyway that's my story of my frame, i did everything but the powdercoating myself. i have easy access to everything needed including heat treating because my family owns a aluminum extrusion plant out here..
BUT
I'm lookn to start over with a fresh frame when I find the right deal!
so if anyone has one.. hahahahaa lemme know
Lemme know if you need anything else.
Brapppp
I toook a minty frame completly disassembled. I tig welded Added support bracing and gussets around the areas i had heard were weak. Heat treated at my work. Powdercoated a purdy green. Rode for 6months or something like that. Got complete bike and rims straightened from Dr. Johns in anahiem,ca. Shortly after noticed a crack. I assume it was due to straightning a heat treated and gusseted frame. Also Jason Britton had told me alittle before it cracked that " the guys at Kawi" told him never to heat treat the frames. But also to not weld.. So I dunno. But after straightning I re-powdercoated a Better Green n been running it since havasu Xdl. Crack hasn't changed much but that adjuster pinch castle nut front engine mount thingy.. Ya it stripped out the threads in frame. But I think that's my fault, had issues with first powdercoater haha
But anyway that's my story of my frame, i did everything but the powdercoating myself. i have easy access to everything needed including heat treating because my family owns a aluminum extrusion plant out here..
BUT
I'm lookn to start over with a fresh frame when I find the right deal!
so if anyone has one.. hahahahaa lemme know
Lemme know if you need anything else.
Brapppp