rm front number plate guide

[madpugs]

Hi, looking for a front number plate guide to suit a 79/80 rm (ealier models may be the same unsure).  Can get them from vintage suzuki but thought id try here first to see if anyone has a spare one as they come in pairs from vintage suzuki.
cheers

[oldfart]

Pugs,   easy to make your own.   buy a PKT of tent pegs ( Bunnings or Supa cheap )

Cut it at 105mm long and thread both ends down 12mm ( 4mm x .7 die )
buy 4 - 4mm flat washers
      2 - 4 mm nuts
      2 - 4 mm nyloc nuts
      Nylon guides can be procured from any hose supplier ( white tube as used in snap lock fittings )
 
Bend first leg at 30mm in vice @ 90 degrees hitting with a hammer so as to obtain a square bend
then allow 45 mm between centres and bend again.

[oldfart]

Like this.
 

Edit-  photo shows 10 washers by mistake

[LWC82PE]

nothing better than a picture. Well thats exactly what i had visioned going by your description so you have done well describing that.

[pmc57]

Wow Oldfart, wish I'd have thought of that, you'll have to show me how's it done one day. ha,ha

[oldfart]

Pete....  great minds think alike Have you motivated Ed yet

[pmc57]

Too true Stewy.

I think the shed will be like a bottle of red when it's complete... maturing with age that can't be rushed.

[DR]

Have made some of these cable guides for both mine and Dodgee's bikes but instead of tent pegs I used 4mm 316gr stainless round. Only because it's all I had at the time The only issue I've found running the stock guides is it pulls the cable back against the plate which causes some wear and tear and may eventually rub a hole through the plate over a period of time. I didn't want this to happen again so I've since tossed the plate guide and run with a guide fitted to the top clamp pinch bolt and the original lower triple guide which holds the cable away from everything. May not be original but there's nothing to say the original design is the best suited

[RMJJ]

The home made one is great but wont the threads go rusty now the platings been taken off with the die ?

[TT5 Matt]

get it replated

[Marc.com]

"Chris Pickett" <[email protected]>

Or buy it from RMS in Auckland. comes with plastics spacers etc

[crs-and-rms]

im with doc on this one back in the 70s they were the first thing i took of my rms along with grips and shit levers