Ok, so here's what Pete (the magic welder at Chops n Bobbers) did to make the GSXR yokes fit the GPz headstock:
- Cut off the GPz turn lock tab
- Welded on a new turnlock tab that works with the GSXR bottom yoke
- Broke a chisel getting the old bottom bearing race off the GSXR bottom yoke!
- Lengthened the GSXR steering stem by cutting it in half and then welding in an insert
- (note that we couldn't press the GPz stem out of the original yoke as it's welded in, and also the GSXR yoke is alloy which would have been hard to weld a steel stem into)
- The top bearing & race was the same size on both yokes, and I sourced a custom sized bottom bearing & race with an ID to fit the GSXR stem and an OD to fit the GPz headstock
- The threads on the steering stem were a bit poor so those were recut
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