Eish! back to the drawing board on that one then......
Superdave, what suspension mods are you doing?
WC - I am rebuilding rear shock and converting it to nitrogen - you know how the Ohlins look with the cannister next to shock. I am changing the spring to higher rate - in my case I weigh around 90kg and luggage normally about 20kg so spring rate somewhere around 7,8mm/kg to 8mm/kg. Std spring rate is 6,5 kg/mm.
Front end - progressive springs - not sure of the rate off hand but also fitting nitrogen adapter. You know the goodie that goes on top off the cap that allows you pump nitrogen in if shock too soft and able to reduce if shock too hard. That is the end goal for the suspension.
Spoke to Shimwells here on East Rand and they seem to have lots of experience with this.
In fact my friend with XT660 had serious tank slapper at 140km/h and went to see them - they fitted the fitting to pump nitrogen as his seals were still good. Raised the pressure up front and he says the bike is like a new bike with better handling.
CARBS
Why don't I buy the tdm 40 direct from Procycle or the other German chap. Comlete with cables etc.
Then you can buy a cheapercarb off e bay and the rebuild kit from Pro cycles. We can have cables made up here as we will know the lengths and we can do mods to throttle and the vacuum as we will have a standard to work from. Don't know if that would be any cheaper in the long run though?
Also haven't seen Dyno Jet kit for this carb which I presume would be a good mod to have.