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« on: November 28, 2016, 12:51:28 PM »
The £50 ones have been poorly prepped hence no full coverage, even brand new the castings are poor and the fins on them don't help with the throwing power in the plating tanks.
467
« on: November 28, 2016, 10:49:47 AM »
Well got started, a bit fluffy to start with but settled down nicely, ran for about ten minutes, next job balancing though they are not far out, video taken just got to upload it.
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« on: November 28, 2016, 06:41:30 AM »
FFS. I was just joking, hence the '  '
Can't see what those tiny yellow blobbs are on my phone, and ask a silly question !
470
« on: November 26, 2016, 08:15:12 PM »
Stripped the carbs this week as bike would not run, old o-rings letting by, new rebuild kits from the states, i found that heights set at 21mm the carbs overflowed and at that height the floats appeared to be too close to the upper body, so i reset floats to 23mm this gives them a better upper clearance and the over flowing has stopped, i had them set up on he bench with a fuel supply for about 4hours and no let by, i measured a new needle valve seat and compared it to an original and the new ones are 0.3mm longer than OEM, has anyone else found this and overcome the problem, also has anyone else reset the levels to aid this and with what results, also new manifold and air-box rubbers going on, valve clearances done all were tight, with any good fortune a start up tomorrow.
471
« on: November 26, 2016, 05:01:07 PM »
You should connect the red to the live terminal on the battery and the black to the earth terminal, you are grounding out your points which is why it's dropping a pair of cylinders.
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« on: November 25, 2016, 09:43:32 PM »
I agree Trig, I would add that a PH2 fits better with the tip ground off a tadge.
A ph2 will never fit a jis screw better than a jis screwdriver no matter how much hope you put into it.
473
« on: November 25, 2016, 09:39:35 PM »
Never used a JLS screwdriver in my life, like Trig a PH2 ground down on the tip worked just fine. I also found the Snap-On PH2 socket worked really well, although I did break the tip on a few of them using an impact driver with them, free replacement and they never asked how I'd broke it 
This is where you are getting wrong, If you try jis and not jls you will find there is a difference🙂
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« on: November 24, 2016, 07:52:01 PM »
Bought a set of these last week and they are a far better fit than any phillips screwdriver, even the ones with the ground tip i have been using for years, so now my ruined phillips ones will be consigned to the bin.
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« on: November 09, 2016, 08:45:23 PM »
Please don't confuse the 500K3 with the 550K3. Whilst they may share the K3 reference that's really the only thing they do share. Different seat, different tank, different swinging arm, different clutch, different gearbox, they do have some common parts as both are derivatives of the 500-4, however the 500K3 was really just a continuation of the 500K2, the 550K3 only ever got blue faced clocks, those clocks have a totally different part number from any other bike, they share the same clocks as the 550F2. The 500K3 were green, as were the 500K2 clocks. No 500K3 was fitted with blue clocks to my knowledge.
The problem with the US site is that they hear 500 when they think of a K3, although they did get the 550K3 I don't think it was that popular over there.
I'd agree with Tomb. Looks like it started out an F model and frame was replaced with the K3 frame. Or it could be it started out a K3 and the engine and some other parts were replaced with F parts. For instance, if it was a 76 F2 it would have had blue clocks, unless of course the same accident that wrote the frame off also took out the clocks, not unrealistic to think that.
Probably easier to agree it's a bit of a bitsa bike, no harm in that, so long as it works and is safe it's fine.
There is no confusion my brother had a UK 1978 550 K3 i had a Italian market 500 K3 on a 75 plate identical in every way except clock faces and displacement even the same colour brown, before i sold it i done a twin disc conversion, and earlier on this year it was e-bayed some of you may have seen it on the site.
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« on: November 09, 2016, 03:54:47 PM »
This is refering to the 550K3 NOT the 500K3
Apart from displacement and clocks everything else is the same, my brother had a 550 k3 at the same time as i had my 500 k3.
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« on: November 09, 2016, 10:52:57 AM »
My old 500 K3 had green clocks, the rest of the swing arm, brake and footrests were as you guys have pointed out made to enable the four pipes. looks like a possible bitsa that can be sorted out though.
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« on: November 05, 2016, 05:10:11 PM »
Mine has a set on it from Silvers, though I don't know when they were put on, bike has only been in country since 2015 though, when they rust out a delkevic 4/1 will be put on.
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« on: November 03, 2016, 09:33:12 PM »
I got it today from the south coast, it started life 6/1972, baytown texas, then in 76 wyoming, 2015 UK and now mine.
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« on: November 03, 2016, 09:29:34 PM »
Got it today, leaking from overflows, won't take long to sort out, these days i just go for leisurely rides nothing to big.
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