This is the can I bought while waiting for the one bought a month and a half ago:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
spot the mistake:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
On the positive side, the weekend was spent sorting out my new backplates, redrilling hubs and metro drums and trial fitting everything. I had ordered bearings locally, but gave up after a week and ordered them from reliant spares.
Boring drum and hub together:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
The finished article - no more bent studs here:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
On the way not everything was smooth going, the new backplates, bought from a major mini parts retailer up north, were a pile of poo, pattern items that had been downgraded, with a resulting built in flaw:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
can you spot it? yes the shoe is not perpedicular to the axle! talk about not impressed...
The answer was to remove and reweld the adjuster end:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
This made things look a little better:
Kawasaki 750 hard tail (was rear end ratios)
The nex job, once the bearings have arrived and I've built up the axle, is to temporarily mount the can and pipe it up. I'm thinking I'll knock out the cat, anyone have any thoughts on this? The engine can't use it, since its an 83 kawa on carbs, it will probably get gummed up?
Hope the pics come out,
Huw