{"id":14764,"date":"2016-01-10T23:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T04:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=14764"},"modified":"2016-01-11T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:43:57","slug":"kz750-swing-arm-stretch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2016\/01\/kz750-swing-arm-stretch-3\/","title":{"rendered":"KZ750 swing arm stretch | 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took a drive out to Mike A’s garage to get some tubing turned down to match the ID of the swing arm tubing. I’m hoping to have a lathe again soon.<\/p>\n

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Turned slugs tacked into the swing arm. Anyone know what the best practice is here? I’ve typically tacked them, assembled the part, and then weld everything. However, I have seen were the slug is first fully welded into one side and then part assembled and welded.<\/p>\n

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Notched the 1.5″ tubing to match up withe front pivot which is 1.125″ diameter at a 10 degree angle.<\/p>\n

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Fitment is pretty good. I want to tack it up and figure out some gussets. I’m also thinking of cutting out the sheet metal gusset and replacing with a square tubing cross piece. Trying to decide what would be stronger. Any opinions on what would be stronger?<\/p>\n

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Took a drive out to Mike A’s garage to get some tubing turned down to match the ID of the swing arm tubing. I’m hoping to have a lathe again soon. Turned slugs tacked into the swing arm. Anyone know what the best practice is here? I’ve typically tacked them, assembled the part, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14770,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764\/revisions\/14770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}