So the subframe came in today and I was super stoked about it because it meant the bike would at least be legally ridable. You know with all those lights and what not. Well i started the the evening off on a bad foot because when i was remove the connector plate from the subframe rails, the last allen bolt rounded the make the beast with two backs out. Oh i was so pissed. It was a perfectly round little hole.
I then spent about an hour and half carefully cutting and grinding the top of the bolt off so that the plate could be removed with the rest of the threads still sticking out of the frame rails. After all that was taken care of, it was the re-assembly part. The fun stuff. Because man it sure is easy taking shit apart. Its the putting it back together that gets tricky. Especially if your methods are slightly unorthodox. I.E. the book says to completely disassemble the bike down to frame only to remove subframe..... well i didn't really feel like doing that. And normally i do not condone short cuts, but this saved some serious time. However it is in way shape or form a one man job. I had to recruit the assistance of my neighbor to help with some of the heavy lifting.
Well once we finagled our way to getting the subframe back into place and the engine mounted to the frame/subframe. Then i got to put the tail back together, pulling the wiring through, switching the license tail, installing the seat lock and ABS module, etc. Once all that was together i realized that dear sweet jesus are those stock license holders ugly, but i only need this stock one until it passes inspection.
Then it was just time to go back through and double check everything was torqued to spec and she is now one step closer to resurrected.
Everytime i look at this bike and im working on it and see how clean it is (like i dont even really have to wear my nitrile gloves to keep my hands clean), i really just feel sorry for the person who had wrecked it. I know nothing about their previous riding history, if it was their fault or how it even happened. All i know is it really must have sucked for them. I personally just like to think they were a well experienced rider and some asshole ran over it in a parking lot. Because no joke, within a couple weeks of when my oldest brother bought his brand new r6, some woman in a suburban backed up over it in a parking lot, granted it didnt total it but i believe that may be because ducati oem parts are WAY overpriced.
