wireman wrote: Do you have the sleeve that goes from one side to other between pivot bolts and bearings?
There should also be a dust cap for each end,youll also need roughly 1/8-3/16" worth of washers to use as shims on each side of pivot

Yes, you can see the sleeve in the first pic. It's sitting behind the bearing. All I have is what's in the pics.
I know I need spacers, but pivot bolts? I need to use the Kawasaki pivot bolt, corrct?
I need something for the needle bearings to ride on. Can you show me some pics or a link to a parts diagram? I'm lost here. I've never seen this GS1100 swingarm on a bike. Bought it like it is.
I'd like to get the parts I need bought, so I can start mocking this bike up.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Do you have the sleeve that goes from one side to other between pivot bolts and bearings?
There should also be a dust cap for each end,youll also need roughly 1/8-3/16" worth of washers to use as shims on each side of pivot

Picked up a 1974 Z1 from Z1 Wiz over the weekend that someone started to make a street fighter out of. The brake controls and rear foot pegs have been cut off and it didn't have a swingarm.
I stuck on my GS1100 swingarm and thought I could use something like GSXR foot pegs and LTD wheels on the bike, since I have no brake controls.
I've been looking for some swingarm info, but the link I found is 7 years old and it doesnt work anymore.
69.46.28.106/forum/5-chassis/38039-gs110...rm-install-questions
Can someone tell me the parts I'm missing for my swingarm?

i always start fat then lean up from there.

so i wold prolly start out with 20 pilots

and the 120 mains and see how it acted and start going from there.

sorry to be of no more help than that.

leon

Found out a 2005-2006 GSXR1000 swingarm is 23.5" from center of front pivot bolt to center of axle. Not sure of the front pivot tube width but on past GSXR arms they would fit inside a KZ frame...although some adjustments would be needed to fit tight.

Nice , yea you will need a 1k swing arm but you probably knew that lol

Arnold wrote: Thanx guys...your feedback keeps me doing that little extra

Got the swing arm to soak in diesel for a while. The plan is to clean it up and have it anodized black wiht some other stuff.

Anyone knows how to get the bearings out from a Yamaha R1 swingarm ?

I used the pivot bolt to pound the thinner one out then it was a lot easier to get access to pound out the thicker one. Yours might have the same thickness on both ends but either way the process is the same.

Thanx guys...your feedback keeps me doing that little extra

Got the swing arm to soak in diesel for a while. The plan is to clean it up and have it anodized black wiht some other stuff.

Anyone knows how to get the bearings out from a Yamaha R1 swingarm ?

I got the bike back from Steve today. Steve took good care of it, I think he was kinda sad it was leaving. I assured him I had been rehabilitated and was ready for parental responsibiity again.

I wanted to ride it down the street before the painter got here to take the bodywork away for stripes.

Battery dead... The KZ has cheated me again!! Bike has been sitting with a dry tank for about a year now, so it had some storage "blues".

Then Gary the painter arrived, so there was no time to charge the battery, we started laying tape across the bike to get a visual idea of what sort of stripe to put on and what color. It will be a shelby stripe, same color as the swingarm, running just off cenerline from fender, across the tank and onto the tail section.

I keep a binder full of all the reference stuff, the binder was at the shop with the bike; kind of a history book in case Steve had trouble figuring out something. It's like looking at baby photos... ahhh so cute . So tonight I am looking at the baby album...


Those of you who may be starting a project...keeep a binder with everything in it. The information comes in so handy EIGHT years into the build... wait it's 2013, so its now more like 9 or ten.. man time flies when you move 800 miles, or go to beautiful Baghdad for a while.

There are photos in the binder of the bike the day before I tore it down, you know the film kind..HA HAAA 2003 I did not have a digital camera, but a real nice 35mm. Ran across this photo which I think will give you an idea of how much the bike has changed.

I took a photo of the photo with my Phone camrea.

Leon...

They are the VM 29 Mikuni, with the 3 screw top. www.jetsrus.com/carburetor/carb_mikuni_V...oded_view_parts.html

Holding off on the new set until I get the bike on the road. Enough with overengineering this thing !! I want to RIDE !

Assuming all goes well and I am riding it this summer, I will buy the flatslides this winter...whats another few hundred dollars anyway LOL.

Stock jetting is:
Main: 120
Pilot: 17.5

I live at 4400 Ft. elevation. I am thinking 122 Main, pilot I am unsure of.