85-88 Swingarm Slider

[2premo]

does anyone know what material the swingarm slider is made of
I am down to my last one and need to use it for a copy pattern
it is a rubbery plastic, but have no knowledge of this field

 

[justintendo]

good question..i have seen a few that are a goldish color. would be nice to know where i could get a sheet.

 

[86 400 XC]

I just use some black semi trailer mud flap material, polypropylene like and a very tuff kind of stuff.
Mega rides no wear yet.

 

[2premo]

interesting material
my brother bought a sheet of the identical material to the stock part but can't remember the material or supplier

 

[justintendo]

i have access to this thin flap material...actually unlimited amounts really. we throw a ton of it away at work. if theres no wear to chain from it and it holds up to chain then it sounds good.

 

[86 400 XC]

Same here, i work at a trailer shop and we are a Utility dealer. So i take off 100s and put Ocean trailer's on.
You see our trailers on Ice road truckers and Highway thru Hell. lol

 

[oldbikedude]

I made mine out of white UHMW. It's hard like a nylon guide material. It barely wears but it's noisy chain slap.

 

[justintendo]

Same here, i work at a trailer shop and we are a Utility dealer. So i take off 100s and put Ocean trailer's on.
You see our trailers on Ice road truckers and Highway thru Hell. lol

i work at chevron, which is now part of miller industries...i build the carriers themselves so we get lots of flaps, lol...

 

[fran...k.]

I have used stuff I do not really know what it is for the dual shock swingarm sliders. Last time I used the Husqvarna part for a 1999 te 410 which strangely also is for an 1998 wr125 like in my avatar. 800072884 It shows at 17.99 on the Halls website. I did a write up on how to make it work on here a few years back, that was for the 88 four stroke I put it on. It is more thoroughly engineered than a flat sheet. If it becomes noticed that the existing one is wearing through a bent sheet of brass stuffed under it has been used for a short time. There is a wear piece on snowmobiles, perhaps called skeg that has plenty useable length for this purpose when replaced. I have that on one hillclimb bike but it has no attachment features, just a channel, at least the piece I got.

 

[Crashaholic]

I've used polyurethane for abrasion resistant applications and it worked well, its pricey though.

 

[maddog82]

http://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/956408-cheapskates-guide-to-swing-arm-slidersguides/
Plastic Bucket

 

[Eric The Leg]

I had one cut out of a scrapped black plastic slide-in pick-up truck bed liner for a bit. Worked fine. They're not that expensive from the authentic part suppliers, so I've tended to buy them.

 

[fran...k.]

Actually since I see above they are not too expensive from authentic parts supplier. I tried to find what seems to be the original part at Halls, which I am pretty sure I did try and do before using the Italian husky one, It came up "No matching records were found. Please refine your search and try again. "
I also probably called on the phone. I put the number in search and it came up, at Appalachian off road motorcycles or something or other which has the ktm parts web address. Well at least one can see what internet address they have procured.
CHAIN SLIDER: AOMC.mx

www.ktm-parts.com/151155401.html
CHAIN SLIDER 151155401. $66.31. CHAIN SLIDER 151155401. $66.31. Ships in 1-2 Days Product Details. CHAIN SLIDER Categories. Closeouts; Genuine Accessories; …

Kind of reinforces my thinking loosing BMW as the parent company was not at all good for the parts for bikes in this section.
At least from the consumer side.

For what it is worth the original one is still on that bike in my avatar and am pretty sure I was replacing a replacement on the 1988 510

 

[Eric The Leg]

I suppose I should've clarified what I meant by 'authentic' parts suppliers.
HVA-Factory has them for £16.40, husqvarna-parts has them for $37. I've picked up one from each of them (depends on what else you're getting and your timeline), both work fine. You can probably get them from Rick at husqvarnaoutlet too.

 

[Eric The Leg]

Also, at Halls, take out the dashes when searching. "151128901" (1986 part # for the slider) does come up. It's $55.99 at Halls.

 

[hva-factory]

Yep, we get them waterjet cut from the correct material from Huskies OEM material supplier - for both the twinshocks and the evo bikes. Because we get them to make us a massive amount of material they don't work out expensive.. The only difference is that we do ours from Black sheet instead of the yellow/brown 'natural' material which can prove to be not very UV proof 30 years on...

Andy.