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750 K2 Strip & Rebuild - help please
Lobo:
Cheers Johnny; truly on the home straight now.
Lobo:
This build is just taking so long, things that I earmarked an hour for take a bloody day. Something to do with being bloody anal I guess…
Couldn’t easily find chromed bolts for the indicators / rear wheel stopper bolts, and so had a go at polishing SS ones. Amazed at how nicely they’ve turned out.
Q - will this finish stand the test of time or is it not indeed a satis replacement form chrome?
Bought some thin-walled clear heat shrink tubing today (Jaycar) and put it over the brake / clutch levers / used boiling water. Really pleased with the result.
Applied Piki’s (thanks!) DOT 5 Silicon label to the Master Cylinder - again, very happy. The M/C btw has been powder coated and had all new internals + (obviously) DOT 5 Silicon. Bled easily, no leaks …. front brake signed off.
Hopefully now only a few days from start up.
Edit… I think the upper brake hose should go down through the bridge top ‘triangle’, but routing it this way resulted in a 20-30 deg twist needed to seat the hose at either end. It just felt wrong, and so the hose retains its original routing down the RHS of the bridge toward the pressure switch unit.
Oddjob:
The stainless bolt will outlast any chrome bolt. No more little pitting appearing on the top of the bolt. I've gone this way as well, although I did fit a washer under the head to stop it gouging into the chrome of the body, which on closer inspection you have also done, stainless as well?
Lobo:
Yep, always using washers where possible, and indeed SS. Good to know that the shine will keep. Cheers Ken.
Lobo:
Putting in the battery earth today, necessitating sanding away the powder coat at the outside frame engine mount when I realised the engine itself is not properly grounded as I didn’t bare the frame where it butts up against the gear case. Doh.
My plan now is to bare the forward LH outside mount; that bolt fastens directly to the forward crankcase. Any comments before I take away paint - better ideas?
Quite glad I didn’t spin the starter motor in this state…
Ta.
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