Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Ninja 250R Makeover #1

I've done some minor makeovers to my bike yesterday. Thanks to the weather (raining), I arrived at NKS Sentul around 630pm. Met with William at the shop, gave him the bike key and his assistant Sam rode my bike away to .... err I didn't know where exactly. First thing is to install the 'rear hugger'. William insisted that it is called 'inside fender' ... Whatever lah. Steps taken in installing the 'inside fender' by Sam (guide to other Ninja riders):

  1. Attach/ Weld a small steel bracket at the right swing-arm to hold the rear hugger using a screw nut. To do this, Sam send the bike for welding somewhere out there. I didn't really know.
  2. Sam then made some small holes at the rear hugger.
  3. He took out a portion of the bike stuffs behind the front-right foot peg
  4. Put the rear hugger onto position - all screw at the hugger aligned with the mount at the swing-arm.
  5. Screw the nut at the small steel bracket first and adjust the hugger as not to let the tyre scrap the hugger. I asked him to make some space allowance to accomodate wider tyres.
  6. Screw all the nuts together onto the swing-arm. Use cable-tie to hold the hugger onto the swing arm bar
  7. Re-attach the front-right foot peg assembly and it is DONE!


    Then William got some ideas and told me "Itu signal lamp manyak besar, lu mau tukar kecil punya? LED manyak terang ooo" And I said OK. Again the steps taken for guidance to other members:
    1. Take-out the rear seat
    2. Unscrew both the the rear signals from its mounts
    3. Cut the wire cable connecting to the signal lamps ..ouchh!
    4. Install and then re-wire the new teeny-meeny-mini LED signal lamp
    5. And then test it ....... both LED signals lighted up but they didn't blink. We had a problem
    6. Sam discuss with a guy (I believe he is the electrical master technician) and he asked Sam to change the blinker relay (or someone called it condenser).
    7. Next step is to find where the hell is the rear blinker relay located inside the bike. It took Sam around 5 minutes to take-out the middle cover (black in colour) and the front seat. Another 10 minutes locating the condenser.... and he found it on the left side below the front seat.
    8. Change the blinker relay and the LED blinking like a christmas tree!

    Job well done. Time taken is 1 hour, can be faster if we know the location of the condenser. Damage to my wallet was RM180. If everything works fine, then I will certainly change the front signal lamp which looks like Mickey Mouse ears.

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