Kawi frame bracing......
09-15-2009, 11:21 AM
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09-15-2009, 10:24 PM
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09-15-2009, 10:43 PM
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Its bound to happen if you ride a Kawi i guess 
09-15-2009, 10:50 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
Make sure that the spacer is adjusted properly as well. If you have just a little play in it and crank down the engine mount bolts then you are putting the mount in a constant state of stress. You want it to be touching the engine just enough to have some resistance, but not too tight or loose. Either way will stress the mount in one direction or the other.
09-15-2009, 11:08 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
Make sure that the spacer is adjusted properly as well. If you have just a little play in it and crank down the engine mount bolts then you are putting the mount in a constant state of stress. You want it to be touching the engine just enough to have some resistance, but not too tight or loose. Either way will stress the mount in one direction or the other.
09-16-2009, 12:42 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
09-16-2009, 01:21 PM
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09-16-2009, 01:24 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
Just remove the right side engine mount bolts (1 at a time 
), loosen the castle nut and turn the allen bolt/mount in till it just contacts the side of the engine case. I usually loosen all the engine mounts so that the engine is free to move on the bolts to it's natural "home".
Make sense? If not, I'll try to explain it better.
), loosen the castle nut and turn the allen bolt/mount in till it just contacts the side of the engine case. I usually loosen all the engine mounts so that the engine is free to move on the bolts to it's natural "home".Make sense? If not, I'll try to explain it better.
09-16-2009, 01:37 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
You know, it might even be a good idea if you get into a real hard crash to revisit this. Any tweak in the frame will change the relationship of the frame motor mounts to the motor mounts. A light bulb just went off in my head as to why I ever broke my frame.
09-16-2009, 02:04 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
be glad ure luck isnt as bad as mine i just high sided a s.s. circle and when it hit i cracked my frame at the weld and cracked the whole upper corner of the head off of the motor. mines an 03 though. and i know my bolts were tight because i just took my cage off and on to take off my fairings off to get them painted
09-16-2009, 04:49 PM
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09-16-2009, 05:34 PM
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Re: Kawi frame bracing......
be glad ure luck isnt as bad as mine i just high sided a s.s. circle and when it hit i cracked my frame at the weld and cracked the whole upper corner of the head off of the motor. mines an 03 though. and i know my bolts were tight because i just took my cage off and on to take off my fairings off to get them painted
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