Originally Posted by
camoweasel
Dirtcrasher,
This a great post. I have a 1985 frame that hasn't seen much abuse until I recently purchased it. I checked for cracks, and so far I've been lucky not to find any. I'm going to be making a trip to some dunes in Florida, and I'm petrified that I will too crack the frame. I'm really hesitant about stripping my frame down to nothing though. I'm afraid, I won't be able to get it back together right. If I pull the engine and airbox, will there be enough room to weld in gussets to prevent that crack in the left side by the engine mount? From the pictures, it looks like there are those 6 triangle gussets going around both sides of the rear frame? In the future I may plan to powdercoat it, but for now, I will jsut
the gussts over with red paint. I appreciate your advise or anyone else who has done this as well.
There are 9 reinforced areas total, and I finish allot of the Honda welds. I improve and or change them everytime I do frame. I just finished a right lower gusset that allows the use of a brand new 450R master cylinder. I may make up just that gusset and offer it for sale. The buyer would have to do some light grinding and mig weld it on the frame.
None of the gussets interfere with anything, thats why there not giant triangles, they have a curve to them. That left motor mount tends to hide small cracks around it.
Sunrise red matches very good if you were ever to do this on your own. The back gussets strengthen the subframe, the one under the seat heklps prevent the post mount cracking. But the most important one is the frame wrap and mount on the left side......
I also stretch ATC70 frames
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