Lucky Phil extender mod

[gstallons]

The DNTFL-6 rod end and the TR6-150 rod will be what you will probably go with . IDK what I was trying with the other parts . They would be considered ball joints . I guess I was trying to use them in place of the original style . 

 I try a LOT of stuff before I am satisfied . One time I bought over $100 worth of grease couplings before I was satisfied with what I wanted . 

[audiomick]

6 hours ago, gstallons said:

 One time I bought over $100 worth of grease couplings before I was satisfied with what I wanted . 

I can relate to that.

[Lucky Phil]

6 hours ago, gstallons said:

The DNTFL-6 rod end and the TR6-150 rod will be what you will probably go with . IDK what I was trying with the other parts . They would be considered ball joints . I guess I was trying to use them in place of the original style . 

 I try a LOT of stuff before I am satisfied . One time I bought over $100 worth of grease couplings before I was satisfied with what I wanted . 

I'm currently awaiting delivery of my 3rd small container of touch-up paint to get a decent match, sigh. I'll soon have enough variations to mix and match to get it right the way things are going.

The problem with touch up paint now is it's not mixed in large 100 litre batches and bottled and sold but mixed individually in 50ml bottles. Mixing 100 litre batches means the slight discrepancies of a gram or 2 in the pigments don't really have an overall affect on the colour but trying to mix a 50ml bottle down to 1/10 of a gram in weight for 3 pigments is pretty much mission impossible. I watched the guy at the local auto shop mix the paint and he got the weights spot on but who knows how accurate the scales are. It can be done as I have had touch-up paint that's been a perfect match on more than 1 occasion in the past.

Phil

[gstallons]

If you are doing this to your Greenie , lots of luck. This color should be called chameleon . 

 

[Steve Swan]

On 8/12/2024 at 4:49 AM, gstallons said:

Well , I found the invoice : 

 DMCS-6 ball joint DIN metric

 DNTFL-6 rod end teflon race narrow housing 

TR6-150 rod , threaded M6X1.0

 DMCSL-6 ball joint FIN metric

 I just bought what i thought I was going to need and then used what I wanted after I got everything here . Just punch in the part #s until you find what you want .  You can reuse your r.h. thread rod end if you want to save a couple of dollars. 

 This invoice is from 08-2011 so I hope these part #s will be good .  

HTH , gene

Thank you so much!

[Pressureangle]

On 8/28/2016 at 8:31 PM, MartyNZ said:

The previous owner of my bike added a grease nipple to the shift lever. I thought that this was a good idea for others to do at the same time as fitting the extended lever, so posted this picture.

Also, I had slop on the inner bush of my shift lever, where I found that the pivot bolt was threaded too much, so the inner bush sat on threads instead of plain shank. The bush had grooves worn in it, and the threads were worn flat. I got a new bolt with less thread on it, and made new bushes. This improved shift lever action a little.

K...my 2000 has this shift lever...is this factory, with 2 holes? If so, is the top hole still 12mm shorter than Chuck's?

Chuck, do you still have any of these? ... and if not, do you have the file and form tool to make them with? I could add them to the slowly growing pile of have-nots we can make without much pain. 

[Chuck]

I have a few blanks that didn't make it through the stringent QC lady. They would be perfectly usable, but not perfect. I could most likely find the original file and fixture, but don't want to let the form tool go. I'm using it on an airplane I'm building.

[Pressureangle]

32 minutes ago, Chuck said:

I have a few blanks that didn't make it through the stringent QC lady. They would be perfectly usable, but not perfect. I could most likely find the original file and fixture, but don't want to let the form tool go. I'm using it on an airplane I'm building.

"perfectly usable, but not perfect" That's a perfect and perfectly usable description of this entire motorcycle. I can hand-file it, hammer it, and paint it into the shadows. 

We can have form tools made easily enough and have the press to use it in. 
As with the Roper Plates, the demand at this point is dwindly but hobbies don't run on profit, and we do have an apprentice to teach all the old ways. So if and when you happen across it, toss it my way and I'll add it to the pile.