Hello forum members, (my first post but like most ive been lurking for a while)..first off I would like to say thank you for the wealth of information that this forum provides.
Iong story short I bought a 05 ec300 a few months back and was very happy with it. I knew it needed some various bearings and eventually I realized there were huge chips in the fork sancions from steel studs flying out of the winter tires which were causing lots of leaking.
A few pictures will be up today or tomorrow. It's been very cold here so my power washer isn't an option. I rode it yesterday but with the carb open to air I don't want the pressure blast water in it so she's a little dirty.
I set off to buy a set of kayaba sss forks instead of Messi g around with the stock forks. I arrived at the guys house to pick the front end of a blown up four stroke and the guy didn't take them off of the frame as promised. He was an older Guy (I need to find out what all of these 55 plus guys in eastern PA are eating/doing to stay in riding shape...the guy I bought the gasser from was 65). He was drinking with his buddies on a Saturday when I got there and didn't feel like messing with it I guess so he offered me the rest of the rolling chassis for $100 more.
So I said worst case I could sell the rest of the chassis and essentially get a free set of forks. I got home and started measuring and realized that I might be able to pull this off.(I bought a TIG welder last year but I'm very inexperienced with aluminum, never have I done a swap like this). After thinking some more the yamaha chassis is much easier to get parts for, lighter and seems to have the slight edge on suspension.
So I cut the stock mounts from the frame, had the rear swingarm bolt hole in the case machined 1mm larger and went to town. I got the pipe to fit through the chassis without cutting the y section out. The pipe goes through the spot that the oil cooler is on on the yz250f. At the top of the y section I had to shave off about 5mm of the edge to clear the pipe flange, the pipe springs I moved slightly by simply drilling new holes.
Lots of small adjustments and fitting changes later and here she is, all that is left is to fit up an air boot. It almost looks like it was made this way.
Iong story short I bought a 05 ec300 a few months back and was very happy with it. I knew it needed some various bearings and eventually I realized there were huge chips in the fork sancions from steel studs flying out of the winter tires which were causing lots of leaking.
A few pictures will be up today or tomorrow. It's been very cold here so my power washer isn't an option. I rode it yesterday but with the carb open to air I don't want the pressure blast water in it so she's a little dirty.
I set off to buy a set of kayaba sss forks instead of Messi g around with the stock forks. I arrived at the guys house to pick the front end of a blown up four stroke and the guy didn't take them off of the frame as promised. He was an older Guy (I need to find out what all of these 55 plus guys in eastern PA are eating/doing to stay in riding shape...the guy I bought the gasser from was 65). He was drinking with his buddies on a Saturday when I got there and didn't feel like messing with it I guess so he offered me the rest of the rolling chassis for $100 more.
So I said worst case I could sell the rest of the chassis and essentially get a free set of forks. I got home and started measuring and realized that I might be able to pull this off.(I bought a TIG welder last year but I'm very inexperienced with aluminum, never have I done a swap like this). After thinking some more the yamaha chassis is much easier to get parts for, lighter and seems to have the slight edge on suspension.
So I cut the stock mounts from the frame, had the rear swingarm bolt hole in the case machined 1mm larger and went to town. I got the pipe to fit through the chassis without cutting the y section out. The pipe goes through the spot that the oil cooler is on on the yz250f. At the top of the y section I had to shave off about 5mm of the edge to clear the pipe flange, the pipe springs I moved slightly by simply drilling new holes.
Lots of small adjustments and fitting changes later and here she is, all that is left is to fit up an air boot. It almost looks like it was made this way.
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