Tapered roller bearings certainly have a narrower tolerance for torque value than ball bearings (which is why the factory does ball bearings).

 

Interesting, I'd imagine they'd produce them to take a certain range of tolerance...for example the GSXR ones I've put in will fit a plethora of other bikes.

No idea tbh, just gonna go with their instructions and hope for the best!

 

Junkie, with the R6 calipers, did you run standard lines and banjo bolts for the gsxr master cylinder, or did you get an R6 master cylinder. Reason I'm asking is I've got the following:

CBR F4i master cylinder (16mm)
Standard Tokico calipers
Wezmoto braided lines

The lines thankfully fit the CBR master cylinder just right. Wondering if they'd fit the R5 calipers without having to have custom ends put on.

 

My recollection is that the R6 calipers have the banjo a little farther up on the caliper than the GSXR calipers, but the banjo size is the same.

AFAIK all Japanese bikes use M10x1.25 for the banjo bolt (but I could certainly be missing something).

Rotation might be an issue too, I don't know.

I use a GSXR radial master (currently, I need to swap a D675R Brembo on).

 

Did you have any issues with the plastic bucket style brake fluid reservoir when mounting the GSXR master? I've never used clip ons and noticed that it bolts into the original brake lever assembly. I've obviously got the risers and conventional bars...is it fine just floating about or did you fab something up to stabilise it?

Thanks for answering my questions by the way, I'm sure it'll help others a lot as well!

 

I used the stock one for a while, I forget exactly how I had it mounted. Then the mount broke (old plastic gets brittle), so I bought a billet China reservoir and tapped the handlebar to mount it.

 

Cool, just to confirm. The top nut that bolts the triple in place, is that 40mm? It's typically the one bloody socket I DON'T have haha! So annoying. At least my tool kit is expanding with this setup

 

It isn't 40mm, I think it's 36mm but could be wrong.

 

I measured it furthest edge to furthest edge and it came in at 39.something mm. Unless I'm losing my mind, think I'll check again tonight.

It's coming along. Just ordered some R6 monoblocs, so it should all be back together this weekend if all goes well

 

Socket sizes are measured flat to flat, not point to point

 

Oh ok, you learn something new every day. Bit hard when it looks like this though!

 

that's what you measure, you can see there are small flats at the points and you can measure across those fairly easily

 

Doh, okey doke. Mind measuring yours to confirm it's 36mm?

 

Didn't manage to measure but the internet says 36. If you have a caliper (or even a ruler) it's easy enough to verify fairly close.

Got better pics of the stops though.

 

Just waiting on the R6 monoblocs to be machined down by 7mm then I'm good to go. Happy times!

Junkie, any advice on suspension settings? Wondering if you started out with stock settings for the Gixxer front end then worked from there, and if you had to make any drastic changes such as loads of preload etc. I appreciate the settings will be different for my forks from yours.

 

BPF are entirely different than what I have.

Sag is easy enough to set with a friend, damping I'd recommend getting some professional help with if you don't have any experience with suspension.

Funny that you need 7mm machined off, I need to buy (or make) 7mm spacers to fit the rotors on my new Carrozzerias.

 

Well, I'm going off this...

As I've got 03/04 1000 forks with 300mm discs...

Hope it's right or I'm gonna be pretty f*ckin annoyed!

 

I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm just laughing that we need to go the same amount, in opposite directions.

I'm having Zoran do the spacers. I could do them myself, but on a tiny manual machine and I don't feel like spending the time.

 

I did get a quote from him as I was going to get 320mm discs..but the cost of the discs, spacer...so on and so forth...just didn't make sense. So off came 7mm. Hoping to pick them up tomorrow morning to get everything together on the weekend.

 

He charges $35 for spacers, I believe that's what he charges to mill the calipers too.

 

Hey guys, Just bought my SV last weekend and the first thing I looked up was to do GSXR USD fork swaps.

Now I don't do any machining, and would like to keep this project cheap. I'm not sure how much machining anything costs, but I can imagine it's expensive.

From reading the first page on this thread, I gathered that the first thing I need is 05-06 1000 top clamp to go on 06+ 600/750 steering stem. I'm still trying to make sense of all the other information, but it's late and I'm too tired.

Can anyone help me start this off with what else I'll need to get/do etc...?

Thanks heaps!

 

No machining needed. Plug and play.

 

Is there a complete gsxr front end that is plug and play? I'm on a fee Facebook buy and sell pages I'm my area and there's quite a few different generations and models for sale.

 

That will bolt right up (although I'd recommend changing your steering head bearings) and give you steering lock with the bars centered.

 

Any front end swap will require some fiddling to get the speedo working again.

Any 00s front end will bolt right up, and the steering stops will work. Early forks are on the short side, your best bet for length is 06-09 600/750 (600 are likely sprung closer to right).

There won't be a steering stop with them, though.

topyokes.com made a custom top triple clamp for me, which fits my 06 600 forks/triple clamp and gives me proper steering lock and mounts for upright handlebars.

 

The downside of 04 forks is that they're a little on the short side.

 

bQQm, where are you based?

 

I'm based in Sydney, Australia.

 

Righty, my bike's together, everything is torqued up correctly - I'm finding it's weaving side to side at slow speeds. I've done the following:

1. Ensured correct pressure is in the tyres
2. Loosened off the lower triple clamp pinch bolts and bounced the bike up and down with the brakes applied
3. The bearings are new, brand new...both top and lower. The triples are torqued to factory spec
4. Front tyre wear is even, no squaring off

Here's my thoughts:

fork(s) are bent. They do look poker straight to look at and the seals are fine, no leakage whatsoever.

Discs are bunk, can't tell if they're straight tbh. Watch this video I filmed, can someone else check if they have the said steering wheel style side to side freeplay:

The R6 Calipers aren't aligned properly. As there's no locating dowels - I'm assuming the bolts themselves act as a centering method? If not, is there a trick to this as the standard GSXR calipers also don't have locating dowels.

Maybe the bearings aren't seated properly? I placed them, torqued the top nuts down as per the manual with the correct tool, also ran side to side about 10 times to seat them properly them backed off the top nut a quarter turn as per the guide. Looking at the bottom triple, it sits VERY slightly off completely flush of the headstock, which makes sense or it'd rub.

Any thoughts?