ZXR Front Wheel removal

[Deanos]

Bought a ZXR 250 as a bit of a project, and am just pulling it apart for respray. Having issues finding a 1/2" drive hex head socket to big enough to fit the front Axle.Any idea of where I can pick one up? Also after a few parts, so any suggestions of supplier would be greatfully recieved.

If your after a detailed workshop manual:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/812278

[sugilite]

Find out what size nuts will fit in the hex bolt head, then buy about 4 of them, thread them onto a bolt locking them up, and there is your cheap hex tool, capeche?

[kickingzebra]

My tool is a bolt welded onto a bit of box section.
Cheap and easy....
Otherwise any automotive store can order bits in for you, or PM Edbear, he sells tools.
Bad news is, the bit will probably cost about 65 bucks or so, from when I was looking.

[Hoon]

Instead of getting an allen key you can just buy a 1/2" socket to fit. Cost about $20. Need to go to a proper tool store though, not repcos etc.

[kickingzebra]

yeah, that was what I was looking at... allen keys of size become crazy money real quick!
Definitly not cheap for a 24 mm hex drive 1/2 in socket, about 65 was all the prices I got, allen keys were about $80

[texmo]

whos that in your pic deano?

[Animal]

G'day Deanos,

I'm a mechanical design engineer, and currently spending my spare time rebuilding my kid's ZXR250C. The bike has been owned by about a dozen riders before she bought it, and the poor machine is well-used, to be polite! A large number of bits and pieces are either rusted to hell (exhaust, fairing bracket) or in a bad state after numerous dubious repairs (footpeg brackets, exhaust can) - or just corroded to buggery! The further I strip the bike, the more I'm find in need of attention.

So, given that I have a CAD business and a platoon of CNC machine shops I use to manufacture all manner of stuff, I'm using her bike as an excuse to design and manufacture a range of bolt-on replacements for the buggered bits. I'm almost finished making the first set of adjustable rearsets, and about midway through designing a replacement stainless exhaust.

There are loads of other bits on my list of bits to redesign and machine, such as clutch and brake levers (as the kid is a small girl with tiny hands), and I've little doubt that as I progress, I'll find more. If you're interested, I'll send you some pics of the rearsets when they're done, ditto all the other parts.

Cheers for now,

CADanimal

PS What are you, Mechanical or Avionics?

[kickingzebra]

I'd be dead interested to see you parts! post some photos up! Hell, with the state of spare parts available for ZXRs, you could be onto something!

[Animal]

I'd be dead interested to see you parts! post some photos up! Hell, with the state of spare parts available for ZXRs, you could be onto something!
Cheers, Zeb.

I'll get the pics posted as soon as I finish the parts. At the moment my CAD business is growing exponentially, and the kid's ZXR keeps dropping toward the bottom of my priority list - which is pissing her right off! Sadly, my outrageous mortgage demands that I focus on bigger projects so I can really only work on her bike parts on the weekends. I'm hoping she'll learn to be patient through this experience, but instead she's learning to complain louder and more emphatically! Chicks, hey?

I love your avatar - it's hilarious!

Cheers for now.

[kickingzebra]

Financial committments!
As my father in law says, there is nothing quite as motivating, to get you out of bed in the mornings, as a mortgage!

Darn!

Avatar is so much better, because it is actually me!! Seems to come with the territory, you try to go fast, you fall off occasionally!

[Animal]

Bought a ZXR 250 as a bit of a project, and am just pulling it apart for respray. Having issues finding a 1/2" drive hex head socket to big enough to fit the front Axle.Any idea of where I can pick one up? Also after a few parts, so any suggestions of supplier would be greatfully recieved.

If your after a detailed workshop manual:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/812278
G'day Deanos,

I went to Blackwoods in Christchurch today and bought a JBS 9/16" hex-in-socket, 1/2" drive - P/N 101/11J-006. With my business discount, it cost me the princely sum of $7.82. Normal price is $12.03. Assuming you're at Ohakea, you could get yours at 501 Tremaine Ave, PN.

BTW, you still owe me an answer... are you a spook or black-hander?

[Deanos]

That would be me when I had a broken jaw.

[Deanos]

Sorry for the delayed reply all, I'm a black hander, and was working on the Sioux for past couple of years but now I too am working with CAD, in the Ohakea draughting office, about time I had a desk job after six years of getting greasy.

It was a brilliant Idea using the bolt / nut combo, I used it to remove the wheel and managed to source a 1/2" drive hex head drive through our engineering club for $15 for reassembly.

Had the wheels sandblasted and powder coated gloss black, and took the oppertunity to to strip and paint the callipers and disc's a metalic red colour while everything was in bits. Bike is back together now and looks awesome, at least the wheels do, next stage is to locally manufacture some fuel tank to fairing cooling ducts and repaint the fairing a metalic silver colour. Will replace the seat covering this weeked as it faded. End bike paint scheme will be gloss black rims and frame, silver fairings, black vinyl seats, and metalic red brake components and fuel tank cap. Be keen to see you custom parts CADanimal, are you ex Air Force?

[Animal]

Hey Deanos,

Sorry for the delay in responding to you. I've been up to my eyeballs in work... damn. Learned yesterday that the front forks for my ZXR project are bent, so I'm shopping for a replacement pair.

Nope, not ex-RNZAF. Ex-South African Airways black hander, then a number of corporate / bizjet outfits until emigrating to NZ in '96. United Aviation (Palmerston North) very briefly, then Ansett NZ in Christchurch until they collapsed, then Air NZ's engine shop and later their maintenance hangar. I've made a helluva lot of ex-RNZAF mates here in Christchurch, many of whom you probably know or may have worked with at some stage.

Another KB member, Brett, is also rebuilding a number of ZXR250Cs, as are numerous other members. Is this collective masochism?

Cheers for now,

CADanimal