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[axiom-r]

That's looking really good Randy.  Have you done the swing arm pivot yet?  its exciting to see another FJ going the R1 route!

T

[racerrad8]

That's looking really good Randy.  Have you done the swing arm pivot yet?  its exciting to see another FJ going the R1 route!

T

Yes, but I went a different way. I am awaiting those parts and hope they get here this week.

Stay tuned.

Randy - RPM

[fj1289]

Beautiful work on that steering stem!   

[racerrad8]

On the swing arm pivot, I went with a way that I thought was less work for fitment. When Tim did his, he cut the inner R1 bearing spacer to length and then had internal bushings made to reduce the internal size for the FJ swing arm bolt. The problem with that I believe is the difficulty keeping the bearing surfaces perfectly aligned during the welding.

I had bushings machined to fit the stock FJ swing arm bearings into the swing arm. That way I did not have to cut, hold precisely the R1 swing arm inner bearing race while welding.

So, with the removal of the material from the outside edges of the R1 swing arm to match the overall width of the FJ swing arm, the only other modification required was the fabrication of the bushings for the FJ inner bearing spacer in the R1 swing arm.

We should be having some mock up time of the next couple of weeks to see how it worked out.

Randy - RPM