Evening all,
not written anything for a while as I've been up to my neck at work during the day and not had much free time.
Anyway, since the engine went in on christmas day I've done odds and sods and slowly got as much on the bike as I can to keep it rolling although at pottering speed
The electric tray is on, new reg rec, Munit, starter sol etc, headstock bearings in, fork tops on and set to what's available in terms of room, time will see if I have to try something else but for the min, the front end is firm but not 'crashy and bangy' like it gets when there's too much pre load. Besides you cant tell withought riding it, After fitting them I soon realised that heres no enough room, to the bottom of the bars, for the tops to offer their full range of preload capability. So far they are wound down to just 1 and a half bars on the rising centre and there's half a mm to spare before they touch the bars. Bit of a bugger but I'm going to wait to get it all on there and some juice in it to see what effect that has had on the front. I may still have a smidge of adjustment on the forks and the bars but it's hard to judge when you're balancing on a bike lift that's on a sheet ofply in a wooden floored shed! You're only 6" up but you can feel the flex in the floor and it doesn't half make you nip up so I'll wait until she's down and see what's occuring
Fuddled about with the fork ears to get them on which worked a treat as I had to pass wires through for the new indicators and bugger about a bit. All went well until I realised I hadn't taken the gaters off the front.............(Cheers Ken)
Anyway, they're off and away in the 'to sell' pile and anything else thats in the parts box that didn't need taking off again to fit something else later on, has been put on so it's starting to look like a bike again, just a proper one, not the heap that I bought!
I've rebuilt the front master cylinder I bought from a 97 CBR600, a great unit and I've used heaps of them over the years as they work well, 'mate' to heaps of different systems and are resonably cheap. I'm waiting for the 2K laquer to harden up aftyer giving them a make over and I'll probably revisit them at the weekend and get the masking off and the the thread bolts off them with a view to getting the front brakes rigged up........maybe.
It sounds like I've done loads of stuff but I havent really, you lot know how long these things take! I'll just do those couple of jobs, probably take an hour or so, PA! by the time you've got sorted, had a thunk, got the bits out, cleaned them, faffed about, made a brew then decided the bolts that are there aren't as good as you thought so need to find some more, gone for a poo etc etc.................you've spent the morning in there and got nowt done
But progress is good, I've also built the wheels whech turned up on Christmas Eve, not done any since the 400 but it went well and the process was fairly painless again, they had to come apart during aborted attempts, but only twice
Really chuffed how they look and I came home tonight to a kitchen table full of 'Avon Roadrider' with a note on them which simply said MOVE!
best get them shifted and hopefully she'll forget for a while before I get reproached
Thats the sort of post I like coming home to
The indicators are all on as are the stands and the carbs went on the other night after a check over, bench sync and the floats reset to proper heights. When I built them I never did it as I knew they would be on the shelf for a while and probably get knocked so waited to just before fitting them.
So, heaps done, progress is steady and looking forward to a day off to get a bit more done, the weekend looks hopefull but there was talk of a 27 cube concrete pour happening Saturday so things may change................me, personally, I'm praying fpr torrential sleet and high winds then it deffo wont happen
Would somebody that has an F2.............Yup, you Phil
would you mind taking some piccies of the O/S foot peg and brake switch mounting area for me? there are some differences in how the PO bodged the system on it when it had those awful rearsetts on and I have no reference to where everythig goes, Ive set it up but the spring seems at a rather daft angle and wpudnt put money on it being correct so dome decent piccies woud be dead handy if you get a min?
As normal I cant post piccies from this Chrome book as its bloody useless so I'll bob them on under here, a post at a time through the tappatalk farce so bear with.
Bit of an epic but a bit to bore you with and hopefully made you smerk cos I mentioned poo etc.
Cheers all..........
