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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #495 - 02/05/22 at 16:08:48 The right side decided to throw a wrench in my design plan gears. This approach may not be viable after all. The one main thing I learned today is I have to have the exhaust in place first. Time to set the mid controls aside as I won't have the cylinder and head back for another 3 weeks or so.
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #496 - 02/18/22 at 11:46:07

I started to check out all of the electrical for my bike as it came with the bike in a box. Unknown condition. Looking at the FSM on how to check components and (to me) the instructions are vague at best. Using an ohm meter, it says to check continuity between the wires per the chart on the combination gage (speedo). If the continuity measured is incorrect, replace the components. Nowhere does it say what the continuity should read! I guess I have to assume there should be little to no resistance between the listed connections? What am I missing here?

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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2642 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #497 - 02/18/22 at 12:18:03 Continuity is just that. Set the meter to infinity and listen for the "beep". If it beeps, there's continuity.
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #498 - 02/21/22 at 13:25:41

After scrapping my foot peg mount design on the right side I had a shop pow wow with Dan P over where our builds are going with the foot controls. I just ended up pulling the trigger on a set of universal Tarozzi rearsets from Cafe Racer Web Shop. I know this is not a cafe build, but I can adapt them to the bike in the position I want much easier. Yeah, they are more money, but they look great in my opinion. Folding, rubber coated, and indexable (a big plus).

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Dan P YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 25 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #499 - 02/21/22 at 13:55:38 Thumbs up !
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badwolf Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' my Lil' Bagger - 153k miles so far Posts: 807 Palm Beach County, FL Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #500 - 02/21/22 at 15:50:14 Are you going to use a rod for the rear brake?
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #501 - 02/21/22 at 16:08:21 I haven't gotten there yet. But probably.
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #502 - 02/21/22 at 17:07:14

My experience with a rear brake rod was.

Stainless is nice - 1/4" is too thin and flexes too much if you need to put in some bends, and when you step on the brake pedal you get a lot of rod bending and very little brake action. I used 5/16" and for the bends I had it works fine....it actually gives you a bit better control as the flex gives you a brake action that is progressive and not easy to lock up. I had to cut the end of the rod down in my lathe to allow it to be threaded to 6mm for the adjustment nut. It is really important to get the die started straight when you are threading for several inches, as the die will go farther off center the longer the threads you cut.

I also used a rear brake lever from a Suzuki Boulevard C50 that had a rear lever without the offset bend - the rear of the lever where the rod mount does not go outward like it does on the Savage.

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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #503 - 02/21/22 at 17:21:20 Good info, Dave! Thanks.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10801 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #504 - 02/21/22 at 17:57:19 Too bad a DR head won’t fit on our LS.
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DragBikeMike Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4471 Honolulu	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #505 - 02/21/22 at 21:08:53 Those are some mighty sweet lookin controls. I think they will look good on your tracker.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28996 L.A. California Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #506 - 02/22/22 at 22:45:00 I had to do some repair work on RYCA rear sets. I believe the indexing pin is too small and was elongating the index holes. I made a slightly larger pin to remove the wobbliness. but probably needs to be a lot larger.
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #507 - 02/23/22 at 07:42:43

These are Tarozzi rearsets, and I already have a set of these on my '81 KZ750. Very good quality, and haven't had any issue with the indexing pin. I will post up some detailed pics of them when they arrive (shipping from the Netherlands). Having the single mounting point at the peg centerline will greatly simplify the mounting plate design, which is why I went ahead with these. The control arms on these are black, the ones on my KZ look identical, only silver. Since my Savage will have the frame powder coated silver I plan to swap out the control arms. My KZ motor is blacked out, so these will look better on it, and the silver ones will go better with the silver Savage frame. Just another benefit that pushed me over on the purchase. For those who are curious, total shipped cost on these was $162 and change.

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'87 LS650h Savage Street Tracker (destroyed by fire)
'86 LS650g Savage (parts bike)
'81 Kawasaki KZ750e ELR tribut

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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #508 - 02/23/22 at 07:47:49 LANCER wrote on 02/21/22 at 17:57:19: Too bad a DR head won’t fit on our LS. But the DR cam bolts right in!
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10801 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #509 - 02/23/22 at 08:02:10 TheSneeze wrote on 02/23/22 at 07:47:49: LANCER wrote on 02/21/22 at 17:57:19: Too bad a DR head won’t fit on our LS. But the DR cam bolts right in! Yep, same base core.
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