I’ve solved with Akishop, the 'busa arrived today! Seems an improved Sanwa at first, maybe is too soft out of the box, but I really like it :#
I use a kowal in my Hayabusa and I absolutely love it.
A noob question, which microswitches are better? from joystick Crown 303A or from joystick Hayabusa? cuz i want to mod my Hayabusa Joystick swapping micro if is necesary
The levers are too long if the 303A uses the same Gersung switches as the 303FK.
Thanks for all the info in this thread.
I had picked up a HRAP EX-SE via Amazon thinking I’d like the feel of an LS-32 lever and PS-14-G buttons compared to a JLF and OBSFs.
The buttons were fine function-wise, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the thunking sound when activated. Also, I can’t adapt to a square gate for the life of me.
I instead returned that purchase and decided on a Hayabusa lever with octogate and Kowal Oversized actuator.
Best of both worlds 
Is a JLF shaft identical to the Hayabusa shaft? For some reason one of my Hayabusa shafts doesnt screw in a ball top fully to its base.
About 99%, minus the groove the e-clip goes into.
Hey guys, I screwed the pooch royally while trying to install The Link in my Hayabusa. I’m out of modding practice, overcaffeinated, and wasn’t paying attention while doing it, and now the entire shaft assembly’s in pieces and I can’t process how to put it back together. I’m trying to go by this image:
Is this the right order and orientation for the pieces?
Yes.
Ok, but when I put it together like that and put the slightest downward pressure on it, the entire assembly drops out of the housing - it’s like that top bowl-shaped piece isn’t big enough or something. What the hell am I doing wrong?
Pics?
Step 1: Bowl shaped piece against the mounting plate.
Step 2: First part of spring-holding pieces, edges are touching the microswitches.
Step 3: Shaft, housing cover, the rest of the spring, and the E clip go on. Looks normal, but feels weird.
Step 4: Everything falls through and the bowl-shaped piece winds up below the microswitches (this happened before I removed the cover).
I know there’s a painfully obvious solution here, but I’m just not seeing it.
EDIT: Oh my god. Figured it out. Idiot, idiot, idiot. Shows what kind of state I was in while trying to do this. Many thanks!
LOL, I was going to say. Soon as I saw the first picture I face palmed.
If i wanted to install a different colored balltop which one fits the Hayabusa best, Seimitsu or Sanwa?
They will both fit the Hayabusa the same.
The same goes for shaft covers? It seems damn near impossible to find a white Sanwa shaft cover and washer.
No exactly. Seimitsu shaft covers do not fit the Sanwa JLF without some modification. There this little ridge or lip of plastic inside the shaft over, near the bottom that needs to be trimmed out.
Once you does this mod this shaft cover will not fit a Seimitsu stick correctly anymore. Seimtsu shafts have this gap in the shaft where it sits on that ridge and keeps the shaft at the right height.
For the Sanwa JLW, you need a non-metalic washer about 2 mm thick to get the right spacing for shaft covers to sit on the shaft correctly. The outside of that washer should be atleast as wide as the shaft cover with a opening large enough to accept the shaft.
Actually, you can still use them on Seimitsu sticks. The shaft cover will poke above the shaft about 2 mm. As you tighten the ball top down, it pulls the shaft up, and the cover still properly spaces the shaft height above the pivot.
I’m not much good with sticks or hardware…
But I wanted to know exactly how people put an octagon gate (sanwa gt-y) on their hayabusa.
I understand the process of drilling 1/8th holes into the sanwa gt-y, but from there its unclear. Some people have drilled recessions on the sanwa gt-y so that they can use the machine screws that come with the hayabusa.
Other people have mentioned buying slightly longer screws… however, all the hardware stores I checked do not have a longer 1/8th screw with the same kind of threading (and from what they say its likely I won’t find one).
So my question is, did you guys just get a screw and force your way into the microswitch… stripping in new threads, or were people actually able to find the same kind of machine screw.
I’m afraid that with my skills, if I try to drill a recession with a larger drill bit, I may crack the sanwa gt-y…