welshlamb wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 12:22 pmNeed to get a good etch primer on it I guess.

Plastic etch primer spray.

Mezo.

Wheels built..... sexy





Ready to go

Bloody typical.....

Trying to get on with this bike & now the bottom steering head bearing is fucked...

Hi Geoffman- as always stunning work

GeoffD wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 3:04 pm Bloody typical.....

Trying to get on with this bike & now the bottom steering head bearing is fucked...

What is your method for removing the bottom race?

scottieh wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 9:48 pm

What is your method for removing the bottom race?

There's 2 methods Scottie, if you've got access to oxy acetylene welding gear, just heat up 1 spot on the race till it's cherry red, wait till it cools and the race will fall out by itself.

If you don't have welding gear (I don't anymore) just bash it out with a long thin drift... Yamaha made 2 cutouts in the frame both sides of the race allowing you to do this....

Ah! I didn't know there were race cutouts in the frame. That makes me feel like a fool. I tried using a drift but I never felt the depressions and ended up having to weld a cross brace over the race and hammering it out from above.

scottieh wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 11:54 pmAh! I didn't know there were race cutouts in the frame.

Neither did i.

Mezo.

scottieh wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 11:54 pm Ah! I didn't know there were race cutouts in the frame. That makes me feel like a fool. I tried using a drift but I never felt the depressions and ended up having to weld a cross brace over the race and hammering it out from above.

Oops.....





You can see the cutout on this pic with the race still in...