[05svr650]

Day 3 Continued...

I encountered 3 problems today-
1. The steering lock would not mount up due to it rubbing the frame. With a little help from the grinder that was solved pretty easy. The steering now locks in the center instead of at full left. The steering stops are still usable and work fine (although I do not have plastic on the bike yet)

2.The TL1000 wheel is too wide for the forks, I have to use a gsxr wheel. The TL1000 wheel also has 320mm rotors and the gsxr's use 300 and 310mm, so the brake calipers wouldn't have bolted on anyway without spacing them up.

3. My forks seem to be "twisted" or not parrallell. I loosened both triples and could pull them parrallell with my hads but when I tightened the bolts I couldn't hold the same position. When the wheel is straight with the bike the handle bars are turned about an inch to the left. Does this mean that one or both of the forks could be bent or maybe the triples...??? What is weird, the forks go thru the lower triple, and the top triple is perfectly lined up with the forks and steering stem. I'm at a loss.

Over all this has been a very fun experience and is a very easy swap. You could do it all in one day if you had everything together and ready to go.