To make the new fron pipe I needed various bits
of the old front pipe, for starters I needed the rear bit with
the baffle. Because of the dent we made a few weeks ago for the
rear shock, I now found that I couldn't remove the baffle without
completely destroying the dented section, so I did. To keep as
much ground clearance as possible we wanted to build the pipe
as far up and in as possible, so we relocated the rear brake master
cilinder to make some room. This means we will also have to modify
the brakepedal, but thats not a problem.
We sorted through all the pipe sections and
bends we had left and found that some were 51 millimeters and
others were 50! The new front pipe was constructed from 8 separate
pieces of 50 mm pipe, one of the sections had to be machined down
from 51 to 50 because we couldn't find enough pieces with the
same diameter... Next time I do something like this I think I'll
by 10 feet of new stainless pipe and a large bag of brand new
welding bends, that would make the whole job a lot easier.....
