KZ900 A4 in kansas

Stu Pidasole wrote: "If you don't mind me asking though Stu. Why are you so unhappy with the frame the way you did it?"

im ganna be honest. cutting it seemed easier at the time since i can weld/fabricate. easier dosnt meen best solution. when i cut the bottom brace/rear motor mount cross tube and spread it, the pivot was not square. i had to make more cuts to square the frame. if i was to do it all over again, i would modify the swingarm no doubt. i hope it all works out for you buddy. Joe

porchev914 wrote: Sorry, I'm late to the party! :whistle: I must commend you krusty, I don't think I could read my threads from start to finish. Most of the info is in my swingarm thread though, and not my project thread...I'm sure you are aware. I did not modify my swingarm like slingshot showed because I did not have the welder or the experience to safely do the modification. I did however feel comfortable altering steel. I wanted to do the work myself rather than farm it out, so cutting the frame was my solution. Like Stu found out, simply spreading the frame splayes it out at the swingarm pivot, so your pivot bushings are no longer square to your swingarm. You could try to heat your frame to allow the tension to relax. I widened my frame nearly 1.5", so I needed to "accordion" my frame to widen it and keep the swingarm pivot points square. In hindsight, I should have made a new, STRAIGHT upper rear motor mount and bolted it in to keep the entire rear cradle square. As it is, I had to make a one off, asymetrical upper rear motor mount....I'll live If you decide you want to go the way I did it and have any questions, I'll give you my contact info and help any way I can. Of course, on top of everything, I had a frame support jig I made that was square and level so that I had a solid reference point to measure from. Several GOOD levels, string lines one good tape measure (don't mix and match tape measures) a couple straight edges and a line laser got me through it

Stu Pidasole wrote: whered ya find that nice seat?

Krusty_47 wrote: ...If someone has Original side covers or knows of a place the has original replicas that you don't have to drill out that would be great.