Good place on North Shore to go for warrant?

[Real_Wolf]

Topic says it all.

Thanks
(and yes I am talking about bike warrant)

[YellowDog]

Topic says it all.

Thanks
(and yes I am talking about bike warrant)

I use VTNZ on Archers Road.

Not great service but they give you what you need.

[Edbear]

Why not take a cruise to the lovely Hibiscus Coast and pay a visit to Classic_Z in Whangaparaoa. You can check out his mint Z1300 and his turbo project bike. He owns Hibiscus Coast Service Centre and ph. is 09-424 0477.

[rainman]

VTNZ Saturn Place does it for me. At least one of the guys is a biker, but they're all usually friendly and efficient.

[vifferman]

Depends what you mean by "good place to go for a warrant".
I go to Action Bike Wreckers behind Cycletreads on Barrys Point Road. You can count on Roger to check your bike out for safety issues, without being pedantic and bureaucratic about meeting every little rule. If you're looking for someone who'll overlook dodgy issues, or a ridiculously loud zorst, go elsewhere.

[Squiggles]

You should go to a bike shop to ensure you get a better understanding of how fucked ya bike is.

[Slyer]

I hear they can fail you just for owning a Suzuki.

[p.dath]

Depends what you mean by "good place to go for a warrant".
I go to Action Bike Wreckers behind Cycletreads on Barrys Point Road. You can count on Roger to check your bike out for safety issues, without being pedantic and bureaucratic about meeting every little rule. If you're looking for someone who'll overlook dodgy issues, or a ridiculously loud zorst, go elsewhere.

+1 To Action Bike Wreckors.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/wiki/Action_Bike_Wreckers

[retro asian]

Cycletreads do WOF now, but you have to ring them up and book first.

[Squiggles]

did it pass?

[Real_Wolf]

I'm taking it up right after I have lunch

[YellowDog]

You should go to a bike shop to ensure you get a better understanding of how fucked ya bike is.

Amazingly enough, to Upgrade will all of a sudden seem like the best option.

You know it makes sense!

[Real_Wolf]

Okay, didn't take it today, apparently the picnic which I had agree'd to go to with my gf was today, or so I found out right after I posted that message. So tomorrow it is

[Squiggles]

I rode the CX up the drive before (did a bit of work earlier to get it running). Still needs a couple of things done to be ready tho

[Real_Wolf]

well almost passed. One thing wrong: Leaking fork seals.

Anyone know how easy/hard that is to fix, and whether its a do-it-yourself job or something I should take to a mechanic (yes, everything can be done yourself, but some things, like oil changes, are hard to stuff up, while others, like rebalancing carbs are quite alot easier to make things worse with)

[Slyer]

I know everything about fixing forks, ask Stephen. :bleh:

[Squiggles]

well almost passed. One thing wrong: Leaking fork seals.

Anyone know how easy/hard that is to fix, and whether its a do-it-yourself job or something I should take to a mechanic (yes, everything can be done yourself, but some things, like oil changes, are hard to stuff up, while others, like rebalancing carbs are quite alot easier to make things worse with)

Its a bit of work, cant be done yourself if you have the cant be fucked attitude =P Requires a few tools and of course new seals and oil. We've done a few sets in the grage

[Squiggles]

I know everything about fixing forks, ask Stephen. :bleh:

Yep, you know just about every possible way to reassemble them so they still leak :lol:

[Slyer]

It's also the perfect time to replace your fork oil, clean the fork out and set your preload properly.
But yes you need plenty of CBF to get the job done.

[Real_Wolf]

well if you'll give me a hand I'd be keen to do it myself, even if only so I know what it requires to do. How much would it cost to get the stuff and do it yourself roughly?

Any plans for a fixit soon?

[Slyer]

20 bucks or so for fork oil from cycletreads. You'd have to do a hunt to source the fork seals, try asking at holeshot or somewhere?
There are two sets of seals, the oil seals and the dust seals. Do you know if the dust seals are ok?
The dust seals are the one you can actually see.

[motorbyclist]

20 bucks for oil, 40-80 for seals (dirtbike experience says the cheap ones last three months whereas the genuine ones last three years), and about three hours in the unlikely event that we don't have any major problems. (honestly I reckon once they're off the bike we could get it down to 20minutes per fork if we're good)

if you remove the forks from the bike and give them to a competent mechanic it shouldnt be more than a few hundred bucks

[Real_Wolf]

much rather do the three hours than the hundred bucks.

The dust seals look okay, but I don't truly know how they'd look if they were wrong though. Anyone willing to give me a hand both to find the right oil and the right seals. I do have a .pdf of the way to take apart and put back together teh forks, though not sure if its really detailed enough to do it on my own

[Squiggles]

Anyone willing to give me a hand both to find the right oil and the right seals.


20 bucks or so for fork oil from cycletreads. You'd have to do a hunt to source the fork seals, try asking at holeshot or somewhere?

When you get the seals (from a place such as holeshot/colemans/haldanes/anywhere that has them) get the right weight oil, do a couple of google searches and check the manual to find what oil weight to use, i suspect it'll take 10w. You also need to know how much oil to put it (the height to fill to)

[Real_Wolf]

fork oil type #10
capacity is 401ml each leg

hold vertical and fork oil level is 90mm

As for the frk oil, just says suzuki fork oil # 10, 99000-99044-10g.

No clue about the seals, not listed in the workshop manual, gonna have to call about that

[motorbyclist]

it'll be 10w

what the manual doesn't tell you is how difficult the things can be to pop apart ;)

[Danae]

clonk, clonk, clonk, THUNK! :laugh: