Re: Reassemble Jen's 919/Temple Tech Day!
Wow! What a day! I can honestly say that I am exhausted. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to Chuck, Kurt, James, and Norman for coming out!!!
Ok, the Good News:
Jen's bike is reassembled and it looks good! We started off with a sea of parts and slowly worked our way down to the end. It was very exciting to see the bike looking like new again! It truly was a team effort with each person basically working on a different area. We found LOTS of things that weren't right such as not torqued at all or incorrectly or just missing pieces. I was given the wrong battery, so Jen had to make a run to CTPS to exchange it.
The Bad News:
It's not quite ready yet. The front end needs some sort of alignment. The bars sit slightly turned to the left when riding straight despite our best efforts to tweak it back in place. It is running, and running well, but this needs to be addressed and it will require some special tools to get it done. I rode the bike down to Georgetown Honda for them to fix this (based on Kurt's high recommendation), so for the first time in more than 5 months the 919 rides again! Understand that NOTHING was tightened properly and the previous shop said they replaced the steering stem bearings, so I suspect that needs to be tightened properly and the some sort of alignment between the top bridge and lower triple clamp will probably get the bars lined up. The steering stem nut (at the top) was supposed to be at 73 lb/ft and it was barely hand tight!!
Not to mention that the caliper bolts were finger tight! We also found the the front fender had been overtighened and cracked as a result. I have about $130 worth of parts to return minus a 25% restocking fee which will cover the cost of a new fender.
With everyone's help we gave the bike a thorough inspection, bled the brakes, and replaced all the parts. The SWMOTECH rack is installed, but the Givi windscreen was missing 2 pieces from the mounting kit, so I'll be getting with Twisted Throttle to get those sent to me.
The motor sounded great and fired up with the first push of the starter.
Jen was a bit disappointed that she can't ride it just yet, but we are SO CLOSE now and I want it to be right before she gets on it.
I hope we made everything as easy for our guests as possible. The pizza was good and pie was fantastic.
I will post pictures sometime tomorrow (I'm sure Chuck will beat me to it). I'm pretty beat.