my fixerupper needs more fixin!!!!!!!!!!

[yami1]

Well so much for my cherry sx. Finally got to go for a ride. Was havin a good ole time until my damn bars broke off in my hands.WTF!! Course it had to be in a curve in the woods with a tree right at the outside of of the apex of turn. side swiped tree. At first i thought all that happened was a bent trailing arm and raidius rods but noooo!! Must of kissed that bark harder than i thought. Broke the clutch sheave, airbox, clutch guard,windsheild,gauge pod who knows what else. So peed off right now. Guess thats why guy let go cheap cause it had a jerry rigged steering column. Wasnt only nasty ness i found on her but thought i had all the jerry riggin corrected. Didnt think of steer column. Oh well get the wrenches back out and spend some more $$$$$.

 

[devfurnace]

Sorry to hear, that stinks. And only if you would have known, this whole problem could have been avoided. But like you said, got to get them wrenches out and get her going again!

 

[Maim]

was there evidence of it being repaired before? those steering shafts where prone to breaking especially when a riser was added. mountain performance ( i think) used to make a reinforcement kit for them.

 

[yami1]

yeah it looked like it was welded once. And it does have a two in riser on it. Im gonna sleeve it and get some good weld on it. This wont happen again

 

[sleddineinar]

That looks and sounds all too familiar to me. First night of riding my 700sx back in 2007. The bars broke off in a turn and I sideswiped a tree. I bent the trailing arm and the radius rods on that side, also broke the windshield & gauge pod. When I had my buddy weld up the steering column, we both noticed that the break in the column had some rust on it, meaning it had been cracked for awhile. Since then I've broken the steering column a second time, this time I had a 3" riser on it. But I've it fixed real good this time. We used a piece of solid round stock in the steering stem when it was welded back up.