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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 24 Jul 2014 07:37 #641197

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Frame is preped!
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Past- '81 Kz750H :(
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 24 Jul 2014 13:48 #641252

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Wow! It sure is. :cheer:
I've subscribed to this thread. Really looking forward to seeing how the bike turns out. You going to powdercoat the frame now?
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 24 Jul 2014 15:44 #641262

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ya should done Monday. Got my new cases in the mail and it seems one of the guides must be rusted or something. It just wont crack. I checked and triple checked to see if there were any bolts still on it. There arent. Its doesnt want to separate on the back left side if your sitting on the bike.
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 24 Jul 2014 18:20 #641291

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Hmm.
These cases are bare, right? Were there ANY bolts holding them together? Locating dowels are easy to F up. Your average Joe will take a pair of pliers, or vice grips and twist and pull until they come out. As soon as you do something like that, they get chewed up, and get burs in them. If somebody put them back together with the dowels like that, it could be really hard to pull them apart. Do you have a dead blow hammer that you could use to try to tap the cases apart?

Corrosion between aluminum (cases) and steel (dowels) can create a very strong bond too. If you know where the dowel is, you might try heating the area around it up, which will expand the aluminum a lot more than
the steel dowel, and make it easier to pull them apart.
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 24 Jul 2014 19:15 #641308

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Nice paking!

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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 24 Jul 2014 23:25 #641334

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DobbinsCMA wrote: ya should done Monday. Got my new cases in the mail and it seems one of the guides must be rusted or something. It just wont crack. I checked and triple checked to see if there were any bolts still on it. There arent. Its doesnt want to separate on the back left side if your sitting on the bike.


there should be an extra bolt hole to thread one of the case bolts into to push the cases apart if i'm not mistaken. If that doesn't work for ya get a plastic wedge and slowly tap it in between the cases.
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 27 Jul 2014 10:23 #641605

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So what is a preferred grease for the wheel bearings and other greased spots?
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 29 Jul 2014 18:48 #641925

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I use Valvoline grease simply because we keep it on the shelf at the Ford garage I work at. The main rule is that you don't mix different types of grease. Other than that, there are no rules, except that it's description matches the application. (example: bearings = bearing grease, etc.) UNLESS the manual calls for something specific.
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 29 Jul 2014 19:29 #641933

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Thanks Mat. It seems the frame is done at the paint shop ($630). Also getting my million dollar bearing and the rest of my oil seals tomorrow from Z1Enterprises. :woohoo: The rebuild is happening this weekend and into next week. Will be posting lots of pictures.
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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 30 Jul 2014 05:52 #641965

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bring on the pictures


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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 30 Jul 2014 06:09 #641969

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Yes, many many pics. This post is what lured me to this site so I just registered the other day.

Not to interrupt all this great advice but this thread is giving me some serious motivation to finally finish my 1000j rebuild. Keep it up, man!
**disclaimer: I barely know what I'm talking about**

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Kz1000B4 Ground Up. 30 Jul 2014 14:05 #642031

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What is this million dollar bearing you refer to?
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