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  • #31
    Originally posted by DGXSER View Post
    doing it on the centerstand, gravity helps it stay where it goes.
    If you don't mindlaying on your back with oil and parts falling in your face.

    Flipping the bike is the most comfortable way but hanging it is the next best in my opinion. Being an automotive tech I can say with some knowlege that the more room you have to work the better job you can do.

    Why work on a vehicle on jack stands when you can lift it over your head?

    just sayin'.
    Greg

    Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

    ― Albert Einstein

    80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

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    • #32
      ??? I've just always split the cases and checked everything else out in there while I was at it. Probably not the easiest option, but I've never had to cuss once to get the gears back in.
      Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

      You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

      Current bikes:
      '06 Suzuki DR650
      *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
      '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
      '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
      '81 XS1100 Special
      '81 YZ250
      '80 XS850 Special
      '80 XR100
      *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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      • #33
        Originally posted by trbig View Post
        ??? I've just always split the cases and checked everything else out in there while I was at it. Probably not the easiest option, but I've never had to cuss once to get the gears back in.
        Except at the drain/fill plugs......
        Greg

        Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

        ― Albert Einstein

        80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

        The list changes.

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        • #34
          I hate splitting cases. Even on a dirt bike and those are simple. I'll avoid that like a plague. I had a KX250 that I overhauled and that case was a pita! I don't know why, it was real straight forward, but things just didn't want to line up and stay put. The end result was well worth it though.
          "The Hooligan" XJ1100, Virago Gauge Pods, Screaming Eagle Mufflers, K&N Filter, hand made rear fender, side covers, and solo seat, round bar conversion, small headlight, tail light, and cat eye turn signals, chip fuses, rewired the right way.

          Pics: http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/ya...?sort=6&page=1

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          • #35
            Yeah, if you've never done it, splitting the cases can probably be a bit daunting, but it's pretty straight forward with these also. Heck.. they even number all the bolts for you like a dot-to-dot to let you know what order to take off/put on.
            Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

            You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

            Current bikes:
            '06 Suzuki DR650
            *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
            '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
            '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
            '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
            '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
            '81 XS1100 Special
            '81 YZ250
            '80 XS850 Special
            '80 XR100
            *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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            • #36
              Originally posted by BA80 View Post
              If you don't mindlaying on your back with oil and parts falling in your face.

              Flipping the bike is the most comfortable way but hanging it is the next best in my opinion. Being an automotive tech I can say with some knowlege that the more room you have to work the better job you can do.
              Sheesh Greg, go buy some big girl panties so yours are not in a bunch all the time.

              It's not like I said the cetnerstand is the best way to do it, or your way was bad, just stated the obvious fact that for the purpose of getting the shift forks to stay in place on the shift drum, gravity helps in that position.
              Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

              When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

              81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
              80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


              Previously owned
              93 GSX600F
              80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
              81 XS1100 Special
              81 CB750 C
              80 CB750 C
              78 XS750

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              • #37
                Originally posted by DGXSER View Post
                Sheesh Greg, go buy some big girl panties so yours are not in a bunch all the time.
                Speaking from experience there Don?

                If you want to do it that way, do it that way.........just sayin".
                Greg

                Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

                ― Albert Einstein

                80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Yard Dogg View Post
                  Seems to me that holding the forks in place and sliding the gears in would be a 2 beer patience overhaul, then it might go good.
                  Keep some stiff wire and stick magnet handy to hold things in place.

                  I pulled the engine and set it on my work bench, so I had all the room I needed
                  78 E

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by GoRacers View Post
                    Keep some stiff wire and stick magnet handy to hold things in place.

                    I pulled the engine and set it on my work bench, so I had all the room I needed
                    Good advice. A straightened clothes hangar works well to keep the forks in place.
                    Greg

                    Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

                    ― Albert Einstein

                    80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

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                    • #40
                      One disadvantage to flipping the bike upside down is if you drop anything inside the motor, it can disappear into the dark recesses of the motor and be impossible to fish out... DAMHIKIJK...
                      Fast, Cheap, Reliable... Pick any two

                      '78E original owner - resto project
                      '78E ???? owner - Modder project FJ forks, 4-piston calipers F/R, 160/80-16 rear tire
                      '82 XJ rebuild project
                      '80SG restified, red SOLD
                      '79F parts...
                      '81H more parts...

                      Other current bikes:
                      '93 XL1200 Anniversary Sportster 85RWHP
                      '86 XL883/1200 Chopper
                      '82 XL1000 w/1450cc Buell, Baker 6-speed, in-progress project
                      Cage: '13 Mustang GT/CS with a few 'custom' touches
                      Yep, can't leave nuthin' alone...

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                      • #41
                        Where's it gonna go Steve?







                        I would suggest pulling the oil pan before flipping it so all the SMALL particles of metal that may be in there don't get up in the top end.
                        Last edited by BA80; 10-20-2012, 10:19 AM.
                        Greg

                        Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

                        ― Albert Einstein

                        80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by BA80 View Post
                          Where's it gonna go Steve?.
                          Greg, I had a shift fork get away from me (oily part/hands) and it went out of sight up into the top end (not sure just what route it took, but I think it went through the hole for the crank-to-trans morse chain). 'Stuff' does happen.... I had the motor on an engine stand, so I simply spun it over and bounced it until the fork fell out. Not so easy to do if the whole bike is upside down....
                          Fast, Cheap, Reliable... Pick any two

                          '78E original owner - resto project
                          '78E ???? owner - Modder project FJ forks, 4-piston calipers F/R, 160/80-16 rear tire
                          '82 XJ rebuild project
                          '80SG restified, red SOLD
                          '79F parts...
                          '81H more parts...

                          Other current bikes:
                          '93 XL1200 Anniversary Sportster 85RWHP
                          '86 XL883/1200 Chopper
                          '82 XL1000 w/1450cc Buell, Baker 6-speed, in-progress project
                          Cage: '13 Mustang GT/CS with a few 'custom' touches
                          Yep, can't leave nuthin' alone...

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                          • #43
                            I'll probably do it on the center stand, seems like a lot of work to flip it over. I'm going to do it in my shed to keep things from blowing in there and there's not enough room for anything else.
                            "The Hooligan" XJ1100, Virago Gauge Pods, Screaming Eagle Mufflers, K&N Filter, hand made rear fender, side covers, and solo seat, round bar conversion, small headlight, tail light, and cat eye turn signals, chip fuses, rewired the right way.

                            Pics: http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/ya...?sort=6&page=1

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                            • #44
                              Instead of the centerstand, I use jack stands under the rear of the aluminum passenger foot peg brackets. Height is then adjustable and the centerstand is not in the way in the area you are working. They are angled a bit so I use a piece of old inner tube on top the jack stand so the bike can't slip off. My 2¢.
                              2H7 (79) owned since '89
                              3H3 owned since '06

                              "If it ain't broke, modify it"

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                              • #45
                                This thread shows my one man flip and other interesting stuff from the second gear fix. I used the forum's fix it thread and followed it and it was not that bad. The we flipped Trdriver71's bike and did it the same way. Now I have an engine removal system and a motor rotisserie so I will do it that way. Hope the link helps.

                                http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31895
                                2-79 XS1100 SF
                                2-78 XS1100 E Best bike Ever
                                80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
                                Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!

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