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MODEL SPECIFIC => SUZUKI BANDIT 250 & 400 => Topic started by: fireburster on January 19, 2010, 08:14:50 PM

Title: Installing a center stand
Post by: fireburster on January 19, 2010, 08:14:50 PM

So i got a center stand off ebay and it comes this weekend. They said they shipped everything  i need with it to install it. What should i look for? How do i install it. I figure its a bolt through the top then attach the spring right?

Big is taking its winter nap so i havent gone out to see where that all hooks to on the bike and i couldnt find a good pic of the spring attachment.

Title: Re: Installing a center stand
Post by: tomacGTi on January 19, 2010, 09:49:20 PM

Two bolts, one of which the exhaust needs to be dropped to gain access to and a pair of springs that go to a nail-shaped stud on the frame.

Title: Re: Installing a center stand
Post by: fireburster on January 20, 2010, 06:29:06 PM

So exhast needs to come off completely? I need to paint it anyways but i was hoping to quick put on the stand for the rest of winter. Doesnt sound like it now.

Title: Re: Installing a center stand
Post by: tomacGTi on January 20, 2010, 09:29:17 PM

Nope, exhaust has to come down to install the center stand.

Even with the little stub at the end of the headers (I have a Cobra slip on which replaces the midpipe), there is not enough clearance to install/remove that bolt. T

The other side is fine but the right side isn't.