Hi Steve,

about the shock. if you heat up the aluminum parts with an electric paint stripper torch, the corrosion layer breaks as aluminium expands more than steel. use a plastic or copper (prefered) hammet to tap the bolt out. this avoids damaging something

Ducbertus

Well it's been a while but I finally started on the bodywork, Having known that the bike had been thrown down the road a few times with various previous owners and the last having been a bit of a slap and paint type of restorer I thought I might as well peel back the years of paint and start from afresh and boy did I get a surprise.....................

Having used a hot air gun I melted away up to 10 layers of primer, etch, filler and final coats of paint to find a multitude of repairs and damage...........so now the fun begins













amazing what a bit of bog and paint can hide - no wonder the bike leaned to to the left!!!




This is a slither of paint pretty thick ugh?


THE FUN CONTINUES .....the wheels are next to have their paint stripped...

No they won't.
the material is GRP (Glass reinforced plastic or in this case polyester)
If you're using an electric paint stripper and behave gentle it's OK.
the paint starts to weaken up at about 100 degree Celsius, I believe.
the GRP takes a lot of heat more to get damaged.
I have also a set of battered 907 panels waiting for repair laying around.

Ducbertus

It depends on how hot you heat the surface, it does help that I am professionally trained at this as well, also theses panels are not exactly plastic as they are a fiberglass composite the side air deflector shell covers are plastic and these need a little more care. I also have the benefit that I am still not removing all the paint as at this white surface level there is still amazingly 5 coats of paint remaining!!! It peeled away that easily that it took just under four hours to complete this stage and will probably take that long to clean my garage floor

I have spent about 2 hours plus tonight trying to tease that bolt out of the rear shock fork hanger with heat (and lot's of it - electric and gas), and brute force and it's not budging so tomorrow I am buying a drill bit and drilling the bugger out what a pain this is being, I might just buy another hanger - are they the same as on the 750 and 906?

you mean the linkage on the bottom of the swingarm where the shock is mounted, too ? That`s the same on all.

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G.

IIIIII! thankyou

I'd take it to someone with a hydraulic press before trying to drill it out....

I am having my panels bead blasted to remove the old paint.
The finish is a bit like shark/dolphin skin in that it has a slight rough/dimpled finish.

guess I`d rather use paint stripper than bead blast fairing parts.