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Originally Posted by Clean300C
I tried to get you guys set up with the only real shop anywhere near me but they slacked on you. I do appreciate all the effort Paul put into it. I'm a trained mechanic and have a friend with a private "members only" shop so I took the job upon myself using his facility.
To anybody who reads this and thinks about it think hard. I have owned my own race bike shop and built/raced my own GSX-R's and YZF's for many years. I also went to tech school but went after far more money than the field had to offer by my early 20's. It is a heck of a job doing this install. My C is in a hundred pieces right now and we had to make some tools to do it right, and you need alot of tools to make other tools with them. In the end it will be well worth it for the satisfaction of seeing it go back together though. The cradle will be a work of art once I get it all back together "Pedderfied".
And in another post some folks accused Pedders of using scare tactics in relation to showing ripped bushings and such. Mine looks just the same as they showed. Some of the main front bushings are literally torn. The cradle bushings are dry-rotted around the edges and soft as jelly. I can move the center crush tube over an inch with my fingers. Your whole rear cradle rides primarily on four huge bushings. And they're all crap to put it nicely. It may cost alot, even for the parts, but it's better than what we all have going on in all the places we never see in our cars.
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Over the last few weeks I had the opportunity to inspect 13 more LXs including one police vehicle. 12 passed. The one that failed pulled up to our display at the LX Nationals and Beyond in Ohio. "I have a terrible noise in my front end. The car has been to several dealers and shops. No one can find the noise." We had a car on the dyno and no other lifts at our display. We asked him to turn his wheels lock to lock so we could inspect his radius rod bushes to the best of our ability with limited access. One radius rod bush had completely failed allowing the radius rod arm to move and lay against the metal bracket it is bolted in.
The car had passed the track safety check. It failed the Pedders safety check. The car will be Pedderised and in a stroke of good fortune, we expect to Pedderise a shop in Virginia along with the car. One of the other guests at the event happens to be a Service Writer at a Chrysler shop. Bushes on a Chrysler, according to this person, are covered for 36 months or 36,000 miles by warranty unless the cause is abuse. He went on to say they probably replace on average one arm a week under warranty or customer pay repairs. I didn't ask for his credentials. This is passed on as nothing more than track side gossip that may benefit an LX owner.
As for your post, it is a big job and it takes a hardcore car guy to take it on!!!! Let us know when you get it completed!
