Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com and sitting behind me is a Kawasaki z125 that is
definitely in need of my attention. Now this isn't one of our typical videos where we take it apart,
put a whole bunch of new parts in it, and put it back together. No,
this one no parts are going to be involved. But the problem this one does have,
it had a little bit of a run in, if you will, with a culvert in a driveway. So this little
section down here in between that front lower fairing and the back of that tire and it's about
three quarters of an inch. And also you can tell up top, all the plastics are out of alignment
as well as the ignition key. You can't even get it in there it is so torqued. Now I have taken the
plastics off of this one, and you can see where the frame is actually bent about right here. So if
you're interested, I'll open up my toolbox, fire up the welder, and we'll dive into this project.
All right guys, here's what we're going to do: I'm going to cut a few pieces of
flat metal to connect here, here, and then down here. I think that's in the same plane,
if not we'll spacer it accordingly. And at that point, we're going to come up with a
base bracket here, then we're going to have a bottle jack somewhere in here.
And then we're going to come out of the neck with a three-quarter inch pipe and then we're going to
push in between those two points here and all the way up here until we get that to disappear.
You can see right in here where the the paint actually flaked off the frame where it was bent.
I did tell y'all i'm an electrical engineer not a mechanical engineer, right?
Now we need to come up with a way
to hold the jack in place in between here and here. We having fun yet?
I need just a cup around this so we need make an adapter.
I'm coming up with some weird stuff now.
That might actually work.
It's got to be pointed more direct
That's my screwed up point.
I'm tempted to uh weld directly to the bottom of the bottle jack. It was only 35 bucks, but
screw it, let's do it.
Well we're committed now. Or I should be committed.
All right, so I'm not going to get a job at a frame shop. I guess I'll recover.
Let's see what we got.
I've got about halfway where it needs to be.
Let's give it a collar where it's trying to bend and go from here to there.
Some weird stuff going on here guys. Let's see what you're gonna do.
Well guys, that has got it back into position. Now the trick is,
I need to take it a little bit further because it's going to spring back.
But we're going to do that in increments. So let's back it off see where she sits.
I was afraid of that. So we're close, but we're not far enough.
She's dead center. Yes.
All right guys, I think that's going to do it because my two goals were
to get those mounts flush on the tank and also to make sure the ignition switch was dead centered,
and I think it's there. But all I've got to do now is actually just put put it all back together and
get the engine in there. And with these supports that I had, I feel confident that she's going
to bolt right back up without any issue. Well all right guys, that's gonna wrap this one up.
She's back in the frame and everything it lined up like it was supposed to. And I'm very happy
to see that two, two and a half inch distance instead of the one inch that it was. That tells me
that this is in the right place. And our ignition switch is where it's supposed to be, so I think
we're in the ballpark of where this frame was from the factory. We were able to save it. Well listen,
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