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« Reply #150 on: February 17, 2020, 04:47:44 PM » |
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so now I'm off to y old place to beg an hour on the AC Tig plant. Wonder if I still have the magic fingers?
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« Reply #151 on: February 17, 2020, 05:01:58 PM » |
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Bloody Japanese rubbish! that would never happen to Brit. built iron..  ..now would it?  ...I'll get me coat... |
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« Reply #152 on: February 17, 2020, 08:39:25 PM » |
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Hang on. Have I missed something? -what broken stud & casting?
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« Reply #153 on: February 18, 2020, 09:55:52 AM » |
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its the one at the rear above the chain tensioner, bloody 8mm. It was corroded to the head. When I put a squeeze on it snapped. So I reverted to heat and a tap to try and shock it, then the casing fell apart with porosity or rot or something that attacks alloy when in close contact with cadmium plated bolt. Last photo shows the broken casing
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« Reply #154 on: February 18, 2020, 08:27:33 PM » |
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Bugger.
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« Reply #155 on: February 21, 2020, 07:39:46 PM » |
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Hopefully its on the way to being finished. Been a long time since I fiddled with a bike engine. Tiz only metal and nuts and bolts, my old dad would say, it cannot think for itself.
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« Reply #156 on: February 21, 2020, 08:51:45 PM » |
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My Dad used to say the same, but they regularly outwit me.
Barrels look nice in black.
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« Reply #157 on: February 24, 2020, 10:04:24 AM » |
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Oh, I'm hoping for a happy Monday, not a Manic one. Swing low!!
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« Reply #158 on: February 24, 2020, 10:41:41 AM » |
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Hoping it all goes well for you
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« Reply #159 on: February 24, 2020, 05:25:43 PM » |
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Maybe just display the engine on a chain & tell everyone it's art  |
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« Reply #160 on: February 24, 2020, 05:44:58 PM » |
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its in, very carefully, one minor scratch on the frame
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« Reply #162 on: February 24, 2020, 05:50:08 PM » |
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That's a big percussive persuasion tool I'm impressed -I struggled to lift the motor on my own. I'm guessing an exhaust stud scratched a front down tube? So what have you done to the motor while it's been out? |
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« Reply #163 on: February 24, 2020, 05:56:49 PM » |
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what have I done? Checked every bearing all good. Replaced every top end gasket. Had the barrels off and honed them. They are very good. I should have had it vapour cleaned etc. But the equipment was broken when I went, so settled for a good degrease. Hopefully the end of the mystery of this oil leak. Jap bikes don't leak oil, do they. Everything is checked and torqued, so fingers and eyes crossed. Looking forward to a good summer.
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« Reply #164 on: February 24, 2020, 07:00:47 PM » |
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Well if that lot doesn't fix it, nothing will!
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