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grosbeak

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Last year I sold my motorcycle lift table and bought an Abba SkyLift, seen here:

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It lifts by the swing arm pivots, left...

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... and right.

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It was an excellent choice for my one and only bike... and then I bought a K75. Abba doesn't make adapters for it - their official response is "our records indicate the bike does not have an accessible swing-arm pivot & the single sided Arm is on the wrong side for the lift."



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grosbeak

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What the K75 does have, though, two beefy m10, 8.8 grade rear engine mounting bolts located in the same plane.


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Assuming I could make adapters, which would look something like this:

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I could lift the bike that way. Theoretically.

I am not a mechanical engineer. Anyone want to chime in on whether it's safe to lift the bike by those bolts?


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I'm not an engineer either, but your proposal looks marginal to me.


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92KK 84WW Olaf

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If you do use those mounts, you can't remove the gearbox for rear main seal or clutch replacement....



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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 48,061 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 61,190 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

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I took a long look at these when BobT showed me his as they are great space savers but I came to that conclusion also, that you couldn't do a rear main seal or gearbox job with the sky lift. Hence my conventional bench lift was bought.


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K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes. 
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.
    

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