FabSwingers.com forum: oxford hot grips

By *riskygaz OP Man
over a year ago

birmingham

just in the middle of fitting my new heated grips, getting ready for them cold winter days :-$ all going well apart from having to grind a plastic ring of the throttle body, then it's just wiring to go.

so what DIY job have you started thinking this wont take me long, should be easy, then it turned out to be a lot harder than you thought it would be ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

building a monkey rocker.

thankfully i started using a glider footstool, so now i know where i went wrong i can do the chair properly lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"building a monkey rocker.

Oh yes I like that... off to the workshop this weekend to make one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just in the middle of fitting my new heated grips, getting ready for them cold winter days :-$ all going well apart from having to grind a plastic ring of the throttle body, then it's just wiring to go."

I do hope that you will get all the wiring running through the bars not taped to the outside... and put a nice tidy switch on as well!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"building a monkey rocker.

Oh yes I like that... off to the workshop this weekend to make one

unless you have plans i would take it slowly lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Drop links on an Alfa 156. Two bolts, one at each end, should be a piece of cake right?

Best part of two and a half hours, some busted spanners, rounded nuts, a blow torch and a can of WD40 later it was done!

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Just about every DIY job you think won't take long ends up being a serious hassle.

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over a year ago

"Drop links on an Alfa 156. Two bolts, one at each end, should be a piece of cake right?

Best part of two and a half hours, some busted spanners, rounded nuts, a blow torch and a can of WD40 later it was done!"

had the same with the ones on my old 406.

however that saw the scrap yard before it saw a blow torch lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"building a monkey rocker.

Oh yes I like that... off to the workshop this weekend to make one

unless you have plans i would take it slowly lol"

No plans, but lots of kit and enthusiasm, built the workshop from a photograph, sure with a bit of bandsawing and some large nails I can sort something out

Will get J to wear a hard hat when she test drives it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"building a monkey rocker.

Oh yes I like that... off to the workshop this weekend to make one

unless you have plans i would take it slowly lol

No plans, but lots of kit and enthusiasm, built the workshop from a photograph, sure with a bit of bandsawing and some large nails I can sort something out

Will get J to wear a hard hat when she test drives it

i have condemned this one lol.

there is a great forum on the net where a couple of fellas have done it.

just google homemade.

some very cool stuff out there

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over a year ago

Stripping a VFR400R carbs and cleaning them, they are a fiddly piece if kit.

Fitting an endless chain to a bandit 600, turns out you have remove the rear swingarm if you don't have a chain splitter.

Building a set of road wheel for my Midas road bike, lacing them up was easy getting them true was a bugger.

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