My girlfriend and I hope to get a chocolate pup once we get a place of our own. The squirrel is awesome!

 

If you paid paypal or credit card, you can get all your money back and keep the parts! On ebay, you start a dispute and if its not resolved you can escalate it to.... I forgot the word... but at that point somebody at ebay figures out what to do. You can always do a credit card charge-back too.

Read this site:http://www.paypalsucks.com/ They have a forum too you can read thru. Ebay sellers using paypal have ZERO rights.

 

Yeah well I used a CC on paypal so I'll work on that tomorrow.

 

They found the squirrel and raised it from a baby. Then it was eaten by that goofy chow. That dog was MEAN! I say was because, thankfully, its gone to be with the squirrel now. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

More squirrel pics

 

sucks that the squirrel was eaten, but the way you presented that story was funny, I about fell out of my chair!

atv man, I do not think you will have any steering issues to worry about, but like you said ride and see. And there is always room for improvment, right?

So Randy, you have seen those dimples before?my other swingarms do not have them.

Anybody know why the picot bolt has the center drilled out?

 

That story just fell in my lap... Just so happened the chow was a female, so.....

Seems like I've seen those dimples before, but not on a 230. Its definitely machined, so it has a purpose, and the only purpose I can think is to allow for a tube to go thru without being pinched. Mine doesn't have the dimple, but I put my carb overflow tube in that spot anyway. The carb tube is plenty small enough, so I don't know why there really needs to be a dimple. Maybe that s-arm is from a 230E?

Is the Picot bolt the big, long s-arm bolt? I've always wondered that too. It came in handy when I over-tightened my friend's 250S bolt and popped the head right off it. I was going to use a 230 bolt, but it wasn't long enough. So, I tapped the broken bolt's hollow middle and installed another bolt... Then welded it. Its been holding for over a year. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

At the dimple the tube is forced to be oval. It does not effect the other areas of the tube, but it makes me wonder why Suzuki woull do it in such a hokey way?

Yes, the one that holds the swingarm on. Nice fix on the bolt. getting a broken bolt out by welding a nut on it works well too.

 

I don't know if you remember these pics, but I had a lot of trouble getting these screws out when I split the cases:




I tried everything. Heat, impact, beating hell outta it... Finally just welded a bolt on.

 

Looks like hell of a bad time. But it worked, there is always a way if you think and stare at it long enough to think of it.

I am leaning toward using the carrier with the full lug.