Lets see, this weekend Brian, David, Katy, and I went to Kalamazoo Michigan to a Triumph and Ducati dealership called Life Cycle. David wanted to look at a ‘05 Triumph Thruxton with 300 miles on it. It’s practically brand new, not even broken in yet, and they are asking $5500. It’s pretty much a steal since they are retailing for $7900 brand new. Well, Brian and I rode up on our motorcycles testing out our new leathers we bought for the trip. And they work very well, we got stuck in the rain on the way back! They are a bit stiff since they still need broken in, but I feel very safe having an extra layer of skin that can be replaced fairly easily and with out a whole lot of pain. Well, we got home and I didn’t feel very well so we didn’t work on the house. Sunday comes along and I finally admit to myself that I have a cold. Brian comes over and we work on my house some more. We got the wiring in the attic done, after I crawled through about a foot and a half of blow in insulation. I stayed up late getting everything cleaned up and tarped up the S-10 so that David and I could take it to the dump Monday morning. Monday went pretty well, it rained pretty much all day and was very chilly. I think the high was only 66 F and breezy, reminding everyone that Fall is just around the corner. We didn’t get a whole lot done at the car lot, but I did get a haircut from Brandy and picked up my car at the auction. Coming home to Katy taking care of me tonight made me thankful that I had a beautiful sweet wife that loves me. I’m very happy with life right now, and extremely thankful that I have friends, family, and a wife who love me very much.

Carriage Bolt Gear Selector Repair For SV650

Introduction:

So somehow the gear selector “foot” has snapped off your SV650. Could be someone tipped it over and you didn’t have frame sliders or some other mishap. Now Suzuki is beckoning you to spend 60 dollars to buy a new one! Well, with a bit of work, and assuming your selector pedal is not too bent or broken at the wrong spot, you can use a carriage bolt to fix it for about 5 – 10 bucks, depending on the tools you already have! Basically we are going to drill out a hole for the bolt and tap it with threads and then thread in a carriage bolt! Simple! I’ve got some pics for you to use as a basis for your own fix. Is it easy? I did it in my kitchen with hand tools, so yeah, it’s pretty easy.

Disclaimer:

This is simply a listing of the steps I took to fix my broken gear selector lever. I’m not a mechanic nor do I claim to be. I don’t know how robust this fix is so be careful. I’m sure that if you drop the bike, it will break again. Keep in mind that this repair may fail on you while you are riding, so I suggest you read it through and decide for yourself if you want to do it.

Installation:

This is what I did, you may want to do something else, but this worked and you can use it as an idea. Read through before attempting anything. If you screw it up, go buy an OEM part. The thing is that the lever is broken already, so breaking it more is irrelevant.

Tools:

You’ll need to remove the gear selector pedal from the bike, and you’ll need to operate on the bike

Hex keys, not sure what size, but they come in your tool kit, so everyone has one.

adjustable wrench

locktite/threadlocker

17/64 inch drill bit

5/16 inch carriage bolt and nut, I used a 2 inch one but had to cut it a bit since my lever was bent a bit

5/16 inch tap (A “tap” is used to create threads in the hole)

tap handle (or not, I accidentally bought the wrong size and ended up using a wrench)

C-clamp, or a vice vise

Optional JB Weld

Step 1:

Remove the pedal/shift lever assembly. First loosen the lever adjusting rod.

IMPORTANT: the buts circled in green are LOCK NUTS, this might be obvious, but I was an idiot and turned them the wrong way. Simply turn them such that the nuts go towards the center of the rod. When that is done, you can just rotate the rod until it comes off!

The bolts circled in pink are hex bolts, remove them and the assembly should come off the bike.

Step 2:

Using a 17/64th inch drill bit, drill out the part where the shifter “foot” was. Note that I used a hand drill.

(This hand drill belonged to the guy who stole my old bike and abandoned it in the saddlebags as the cops arrested him!)

Step 3:

Tap out the hole using your 5/16th inch tap. I bought the wrong size tap handle, so I used an adjustable wrench instead. Hey, it worked, so what the heck.

Step 4:

Remove the rubber “boot” from the original shifter foot, if you still have it.

Take the 5/16th carriage bolt, and put the rubber boot on it. If you lost the boot, I’m sure that wrapping the bolt in electrical tale might work, or better yet, a huge glob of JB Weld/Epoxy. The boot fits nicely!

Thread the nut onto the bolt (not shown on this pic) , you may want to put some threadlocker (or JB Weld) on the threads. This is your new shifter “foot”

Step 5:

OK, now thread the foot onto the lever, again you may want to put threadlocker on it, or JB Weld/Epoxy. Lock the nut tight against the arm.

Now for me, I found that this bolt was too long, so I took a Dremel to it and cut it down a bit, because my shifter arm was bent a bit such that the bolt extended too far back. I could have simply added another bolt to the “foot side” to make the foot longer, but I cut off the excess instead.

The lock nut is pointed to by the pink arrow and the excess that I trimmed is shown in green, you can see that I could have simply put another nut next to this nut. Maybe that was a better idea, since it would lock down the first nut good. I chose to saw off the excess because I didn’t want the foot too long, it might make it more breakable;

Step 6:

This is optional, but I globbed JB Weld/epoxy onto the back end of my lever and smeared it on the exposed threads and the nut to lock it in place and to “smoothe” out the extended part so it wouldn’t catch on lever adjusting rod. (Yes this picture sucks. JB Weld resisted all efforts of my camera to focus on it. I think the stealth fighter’s secret is that it is coated with glue)

Step 7:

Put the lever back on your bike! Make sure to use threadlocker on the shifter assembly bolts to prevent them from working loose! You are now done. I didn’t bother with pics, because it just looks like a normal SV shifter lever!

This page is a mirror of http://www.mindspring.com/~vlok/SV650/Gear_selector/gear_selector.htm

I ordered the Xtreme Camera Mount last Tuesday late in the evening and received the mount (from Plano, TX) in the Friday Mail. I Installed it Friday night and took some pictures along the way. There really isn’t much to installing the mount except for the removal of three stock bolts and the installation of three bolts that come with the mount. The reason I went with this mount was because of the one piece construction of the main arm. This I felt was important because of durability and strength. The mount is quite pricey at $90 plus shipping of $9.95 but well worth it. Every other tank mount I came across was between $80 and $100. If you mention you are a SV1000 Portal Member and give Anthony Rizzo your user name he will give you a discount of $5. I do have some video that I took with the tank mount which you can see for yourself. The Suzuki Spectre Model I bought will fit these models:
GSXR1000 1996-2006
GSXR600 1996-2006
GSXR750 1996-2006
TL / TLR ALL
Hayabusa ALL
Bandits through 2002 Mount Extension Required
SV650 ALL
SV1000 ALL
V-Strom ALL Mount Extension Required
Katana 600 ALL

MyGreatMovie.mov 15.67Mb

Here is a video that I found by EmpireGP from Deals Gap! GREAT VIDEO!
Deals Gap By EmpireGP Google Video

Well, looks like David, Brian, Craig, and I are headed to Deals Gap soon. It’s a total of 610 miles from my house and will take us an estimated 13 hours to reach. The stretch of road that we are traveling so far for has a kick ass attribute of 318 turns in 11 miles. This is what makes this stretch of road so famous and is also why we are willing to ride our motorcycles over 600 miles to experience it. Anyway, before this trip I do not own any leathers. I figured that it might be wise of me to buy some as a form of health/medicalinsurance. Although leathers are extremely expensive, they are a lot cheaper than a medical bill if you go down on a motorcycle with out them. My first investment is a Alpinestars Dyno Leather Jacket. The cheapest place I found this online was SandHillsPowerSports.com. My next investment was a pair of Alpinestars Leather pants which zip onto the jacket. My choice was the Alpinestars Bat pants, I guess these are the same pants that Batman wears. Alpinestars also has a womens sytle of leather pants called “Cat Pants” for all you Cat Woman fans. Anyway the cheapest place I found these is SandHillsPowerSports.com Now since I have the pants and jacket, all I need is a pair of gloves which I also purchased from SandHillPowerSports.com I ordered black since they didn’t have my size in blue. The last and final thing I purchased was a Tank Mount for a Camcorder. After some research on the best one I found the Suzuki Spectre at XtremeCameraMounts.com I am SOOO excited for the trip down! Looks like we may have to camp one night out there. Which shouldn’t be a problem except we don’t have a whole lot of room for luggage considering we are taking a Miata, a ZX-6r, and my SV. We have a room for the last night there so we would only have to sleep in the wilderness the one night. I guess we will see what happens. I can’t wait…….

So tonight is our third night we have worked on our kitchen and dining room. This little project of tearing up our carpet and laying down new flooring has turned into a huge renovation project. Pretty much Katy and I were sick of the half assed work that the previous owners did to the house and decided we were going to do it right. For example, when the previous owners were sick of the flooring, they just put down new flooring on top of the old. WTF!! Are you freaking retarded! Another thing they did that pisses us off is when they got sick of the drywall, they nailed wood paneling over top of the drywall. We also experienced this with the roof last summer. But that is another story altogether. It seems as if the previous owners chose the cheap way out whenever they decided to do something. This is something that I frown upon. I figure if you are going to do something, you might as well do it right. Especially if it’s with your own home that you will live in for a while.

Today Brian, David, Katy and I went to the dump and unloaded the two S-10s at the dump which put us back about $20 for both of them. Brian, and Craig worked on the kitchen tearing the wall coverings out. Last night we all tore the wall covers from the dining room area as well as the blow-in insulation that were on the outside walls. Blow-in insulation is about the dirtiest thing you can inhale, and it seems to not take much agitation to send it airborne. Again, thank you for everything guys.

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