Need welder near Whitby to weld on new spool mount on swingarm

[toysareforboys]

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My GF just picked up an 07 Gixxer 600 track bike and one of the spools/spool mounts is broken off. Here are some pics!

The right (good) side:

The broken side:

The spool mounts look pretty cheap/fragile to me, so I'm open to the idea of shaving the good one off and welding on new, more substantial spool mounts (will be running spool sliders)

Anyone know of a place? Anyone able to do it mobile i.e. come to my house? It's a track bike and I'll only have a trailer for one day (Saturday July 21st) so it's tricky for me to take it somewhere.

-Jamie M.

 

[Freestyle72]

Jamie they are fragile and weak looking on every bike I have looked at. They are meant to break off in a crash. This is so they don't take a chunk of the swingarm with them. Do not have a welder weld one on "real good". Have him basically tack it on good enough so you can hold the bike up with it.

 

[JonnyWyshbone]

Isnt there stands that pickup the bike straight from the swingarm?

 

[Scuba Steve]

There is a better way to do this use these axle blocks and the spools thread into them, then grind the old ones right off. Gixxers are know for snapping off the spool mounts.

 

[toysareforboys]

There is a better way to do this use these axle blocks and the spools thread into them, then grind the old ones right off. Gixxers are know for snapping off the spool mounts.

Wow, nice Never knew these existed

Ordered.

-Jamie M.

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