profab250R
09-15-2010, 02:11 AM
I was goofin around tonight cleaning up the plastics and such on the r and noticed that my handlebars looked crooked. so I tore all the front plastics off and realized that my steering stem was bent! so I was diggin around in the scrap pile and found a piece of 1 1/4" od DOM chromoly (stock tube is only 1 1/8" od) So I decided to fix my steering stem and add 1" and fab a better bar clamp mount than the stock one. So I pulled the stock stem out, cut the tierod bracket and spindle off the bottom as one unit, then cut the bar clamp mount off to measure the piece of tubing, cut the new metal and coped the end for the bar clamp, and started getting everything fabbed up. here are some pics.
here you can see the section of tubing i cut from the factory stem is bent.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/082a9a34.jpg
New tube cut to length +1"
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/0fe8df82.jpg
here is the sectioned view of the tube
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/7c49eefc.jpg
factory tie rod bracket cut off
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/ad7587de.jpg
factory tie rod bracket true and square welded up
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/40608069.jpg
the start to my new bar clamp mount, just need to weld vertical tubes and plates for mounting the clamps, and cut and weld gussets.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/7f6747fe.jpg
here you can see the section of tubing i cut from the factory stem is bent.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/082a9a34.jpg
New tube cut to length +1"
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/0fe8df82.jpg
here is the sectioned view of the tube
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/7c49eefc.jpg
factory tie rod bracket cut off
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/ad7587de.jpg
factory tie rod bracket true and square welded up
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/40608069.jpg
the start to my new bar clamp mount, just need to weld vertical tubes and plates for mounting the clamps, and cut and weld gussets.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/mr2turbo7/7f6747fe.jpg