Slabby/ R6 Shock Swaps Made Easy (ish)

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Thanks to Bloodrunner who kept this thread from the old/ previous OSS site. I've copied the text and captured the images from a document he sent me and the images are hosted on my Dropbox (free!) - get yours by clicking on the link in my sig

It was originally posted by 'BigRedBus' on 09/02/05.

1. "Since rear-ends are the hot topic of the moment I thought I would share my experiences of putting an R6 shock in my 1100 Slabby. Here's a pic of the R6 unit bottom eye."
   
   
2. "And here it is stripped, I left the bearing race in for reasons that I will explain later - the two rubber seals from the R6 shock need to be kept."
   
3. "Here are the parts I used for the conversion. the two metal spacers from
   the slabby shock, and the bottom bearing from the standard slabby unit.
   Also the rubber seals from the R6 shock."
   
   
4. "The top mount of the R6 shock goes straight in the 1100 frame as this pic
    shows."
   
   
5. "I had a spare 1100 linkage I used to measure how much to grind off the
   R6 shock. ("had" because it's now promised to Brian). About 2 or 3mm
   either side."
   
   
6. "And here's the reason I left the bearing race in - it happens to be the
    exact width needed to grind down the bottom eye. So leaving it in works
   as a handy guide."
   
   
7. "Once the bottom eye is ground down to size, you can press out the
    bearing race. The race needs to be ground down now, to make a spacer
   for the bottom bearing from the slabby shock, as it's smaller than the eye
   in the R6 unit."
   
   
8. "Grind it down so that it's the exact width of the bearing from the slabby
    shock (no wider, or the seals won't fit)."
   
   
9. "Here's the R6 bearing race pressed back into the bottom eye, note the
    space either side to allow the seals to fit."
   
   
10. "I assembled all the parts and it now fits my 1100 frame like a glove "
    
    

Nice one BigRedBus and Bloodrunner!