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PostPosted: 01 Nov 2019 10:41 
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Now the winter nights are with us, as well as this years project I am going to start doing the mods on my S1, one of the ones I was looking at was the alloy swing-arm from an X1. These seem to be quite easily available from the USA, my questions are reading through the posts it would appear that to convert the S1 you need a swing-arm, back axle and chain adjusters, I think also I read somewhere the axle diameter is different and also you would need bearings and perhaps the spacer in the middle, what I would like to know, does the original caliper fit?, does the swing-arm fit straight onto the block or do you need one from the X1? and any other hints anyone can give me.

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PostPosted: 01 Nov 2019 12:43 
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It's a fairly straight forward swap, the axles are different lengths not diameters the caliper and carrier will fit without any problems, if you get one drill a 4mm hole through the bottom of the shock absorber mount as this allows any water that gets in to drain out :idea: I do recall a thing about filing some meat off the top of it to give full movement through its arc, the only problem about getting one from the US will be shipping costs and maybe import duty, but you probably know that, are none available here :?:
I have one under my bench in the garage but that may get refitted to mine again someday ;)

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PostPosted: 01 Nov 2019 12:58 
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There's one for sale on Ebay US the total including import charges and postage is about £135 that would seem reasonable unless anyone had one for sale in the UK, I believe the M2 and S3 are the same.

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PostPosted: 01 Nov 2019 13:07 
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There seems to be a few in Germany but they are all quite expensive, there was a guy selling a Metmachex for £600, I offered him £500 but he knocked it back, I think a tapered one would look good if I polished it ,I have a good polishing wheel.

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PostPosted: 01 Nov 2019 13:30 
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ogri211 wrote:
There's one for sale on Ebay US the total including import charges and postage is about £135 that would seem reasonable unless anyone had one for sale in the UK, I believe the M2 and S3 are the same.



Not a bad price :yup: all the tubers are interchangeable

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PostPosted: 02 Nov 2019 21:49 
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I thought so I bought it I will just need to procure chain adjusters

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PostPosted: 03 Nov 2019 08:48 
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Belt adjusters there no chain lOl lOl

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PostPosted: 03 Nov 2019 18:12 
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I see you bought some adjusters , for anyone else reading this I have some spare ones and good used sets of uprated isolators.


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I have a metmachex S1 swingarm up for grabs. PM me with a reasonable offer. It's gonna be plus postage but I'll use the cheapest option to get it over the border. You'll need the longer wheel spindle to make it fit......Dave. ps it's been de lugged so you can never fit a rear hugger.


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gusm2 wrote:
It's a fairly straight forward swap, the axles are different lengths not diameters the caliper and carrier will fit without any problems, if you get one drill a 4mm hole through the bottom of the shock absorber mount as this allows any water that gets in to drain out :idea: I do recall a thing about filing some meat off the top of it to give full movement through its arc [url=http:// DELETED LINK !!!, the only problem about getting one from the US will be shipping costs and maybe import duty, but you probably know that, are none available here :?:
I have one under my bench in the garage but that may get refitted to mine again someday ;)


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Just deleted Frankyv24 for putting in a commercial link in his quote

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Damm, got a wee bit excited when I saw the notification.....now deflated :?

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