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Puddle Jumper
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| Does anyone know how long it takes to dissassemble every parts of a vision for a paint job? |
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Visionary
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Central Maryland | Twice as long as half the time. |
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Iron Butt
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Manchester, CT | Le Saint
It use to be that when new folks and those who have been around posted a question someone would try and help them out.
Its tough to answer your question for a few reasons. It comes down to if you've done it before. When I first started working on my Vision, it was a long and sometimes painful process...especially in you dropped a bolt and tried to find it! The challenge you'll have is to locating the mounting points, example, the console has 04mm screw hiding in the compartments and 4 6mm bolts 2 at each end.
The best advise is to take a look at a service manual and go for it. If you run into a particular problem post a question and I'm sure someone will be good enough to help you out.
DON'T bring it to a dealer...it would probably be cheaper to buy a new bike  |
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Puddle Jumper
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| Tom "Street Eagle",
Thank you for taking the time to answer. Actually, I was just wondering how long it would take for a skilled victory mechanic to do it!!??
Kind regards,
Brett "le saint" |
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Visionary
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| am guessing most of 8 hours. First time I changed the head light was close to 3 hours just get to the light.
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Iron Butt
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Rockford, IL | If we are talking about ALL of the painted parts I'd think every bit of 12+ hours for the average guy with the average tools. If we are considering an experienced tech that perhaps has a few specialty tools and has done it more than a couple times you might get down to 10 hours.....maybe.
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Visionary
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| Le Saint - 2013-12-29 2:49 PM Does anyone know how long it takes to dissassemble every parts of a vision for a paint job? where do you live? help might be right around the corner |
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Iron Butt
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Manchester, CT | One quick thought ....my guess most of the Vic mechanics haven't had an opportunity to strip a Vision down. I've taken mine apart a few times. First couple of times was with the help of my friend who happens to be a Silver Certified Vic mechanic. My Vision was the first one he had taken apart. Reason mine came apart, before I took delivery of it, was to install the chrome accessories and install the reverse kit.
JV brings up a great point. There are alot of folks I'm sure that might be able to help out. If not in person, through the forum. What will be very helpful is what others have found through experience what the best sequence is for breaking the bike down. |
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Visionary
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Central Maryland | Le Saint,
My initial post was just to be humorous. You did ask a vague question.
Sadly, there used to be a time on this board when folks could recognize humor. Now many of them just appear to have a stick up their ass; in place of humor.
Happy New year. Good luck with your bike. |
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Iron Butt
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Manchester, CT | Hey Willl
You are a good man and always have good info. I just noticed that Le Saint is a newer member on the forum and wanted to let him know we could help out. By no means did was I taking a shot...not the way I am. As far as humor goes...at least my wife has one...she married me!
Happy New Year my friend et all..... |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | Sensitive...
I have to go with Will on this, verrrrrry subjective question, and not a fair one to ask. If want a skilled technician to answer the question, take it to a skill techicia and ask them. If you are just going to do it yourself, for every response there will a different answer. |
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Puddle Jumper
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| The more times a particular vision is torn down and put back together, the easier it gets, i.e. getting rid of unnecessary fasteners. hahaha. i've had mine apart several times in the past year i've owned it. an experienced tech. should be able to tear it down completely naked in a day, then put back together in another day. |
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Puddle Jumper
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| Thank you all for your time, the reason I asked is that I am planning to get it painted and I did ask our local dealer who said he would charge me for a whole day to dissassemble the parts and another to put them back together...well knowing this particular dealer is known to charge quite a lot...I wanted to be sure and it looks like this time he is right!
By the way, thanks for offering to help but unless someone wants to fly over to South France where I live, I think I will handle this one!
Happy New Year!
Le Saint |
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Cruiser
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W'ford Tx | You could save yourself a ton of money then and disassemble it yourself, bring them the parts and then once they're done reassemble it yourself. It might take you twice as long but if you're talking about saving anywhere from 20-24 hours labor charge it seems like it would be worth it. Really it's just unbolting sections at a time, there isn't any special tools that are needed, just some sockets and allen bits. If you have any kind of common scene it's not a hard project to tackle. |
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