Templar 250 resource guide

[Mumen Rider]

Otom CRF250R front brake disc guards fit the front forks perfectly. You will need your own M6-1.0 bolts and washers to mount it.

[Mumen Rider]

I ran out of cut off wheels for my dremel tool but I have these pliers that managed to get the OEM carb screws out without much fuss even with the red thread lock on the bolts. Engineer PZ-57 Japanese pliers($16 on Amazon, a great alternative if you don't have a dremel tool or don't want to spend the money for this one job). You will need M4-.70x20mm screws to replace the OEM headless bolts.



I could only fit one .5mm shim under the needle and still have the white plastic needle retainer clip into the slide piston.

[Thumper]

I posted the 5/8" new lower mounting hole on the rear shock (post #59), which drops about 1.75" and if you drop the front forks about a half inch, you get a solid 2" lowering. I also compressed the preload by about 175 pounds (~ half inch @ 350 pounds per inch). This is a NICE way to stiffen and lower the bike moderately.

BUT, the kickstand is too long now. Aussie mentioned that the kickstand had nice thick walls, so I decided that my weak welding skills could be successfully brought to bear

I took a ~1.25" section out, below the lower spring mounting post:


I set it up pinning it vertically to a red landscaping cinderblock and ground off a section to pin the grounding clamp:


A strip of masking tape was good enough to hold it for the first tack weld, then pulled the tape off and finished it off:



Lovely weld, eh
In my defense, most of that is slag. It was pretty good underneath the mess

I filed off the crap and gave it a flat black finish. Done. The bike leans over nicely. You can even park it with the kickstand uphill now. Plenty strong enough.

This worked great.

[GypsyR]

I was chicken with mine. Cut 3/4" off first and then about another 3/4".