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Renovation Time
Spitfire:
Fantastic job, and a nice "save", have you put the clear lacquer on yet ?
Cheers
Den
z1100r:
Yes Den, its got that 2k in a can stuff on. Just waiting for my chrome trim to arrive now. Cant believe that my original petrol cap cleaned up as well as it did, its one or 2 pits but otherwise looks like new...amazing....needs a new rubber though.
Pipes are fitted, all my painting and stuff is done...just gotta put the carbs on now. Oh no, go to bleed the brakes aswell, but cant do that until I can get the right bars because I may need a longer brake pipe if I cant.
Must get some polish next to get my oily hand prints off all my shiny chrome...haha
z1100r:
Getting nearer and nearer...but dont these little jobs stack up. I want to keep my old original number plate, no particular reason its just a yellow one but its aluminium embossed and unusual in that its 3 lines "abc 123 d". The pic below is not long after I bought the bike and I still have the same plate and I want to get a mudflap like that aswell. Will be looking out for another tank and sidepanels - I should of done it Brown.. ::) I was still living at home in this pic. Actually, as it has the K3 pipes I must of had it 2 years allready.
Took me all night last night to finish and fit the carbs....of course then I had to fire it up, so I get my new cables out , they're too short..!!. I never checked but I'm sure I ordered USA spec cables. oh well fit the old ones..I polish up the pipes to avoid staining them, fit the oil filter, fill it up with oil, fit new choke cable, miles too long, fit old one again. Hook up Temporary fuel bottle, fill up, petrol pisses out of number 2 carb but a couple of taps with a screwdriver handle stops it. Then it comes out of number 3 ..tap tap stops it.Wipe up quickly.
Turn key on oil light comes on and seems very bright then goes pop...fit new bulb...another 10 mins because the rubber holder split.
Finally ready...press button expecting lovelyness...instead get mis-firing..pop bang..hellish eratic crap. oooh dear, sod it, what have I done.
Have a bit of think and a bit of a stare at it, pour in some more petrol and fire it up again....loads better this time, i dont know what that was..??, still the odd pop from one cylinder, tickover is very erratic. My old carbs were better than these...!!!! Oh well I'll get the vac gauges on em and see if that helps. Its had its heat up and cool down, I'll check tappets, points etc and have another go tonight.
SteveD CB500K0:
You could ask these guys about a plate:
http://www.pl8s.co.uk/Framptons-Motorcycle-Plates.php
z1100r:
Oh nooooh...I dont want a new one..!!! the original is not in bad nick its just that the holes in the mounting plate dont line up so I have to drill more. Mind you the ones in the mounting are awful all over the place things anyway....I should have and will eventually weld them up. Drill some more for now.
I like the fact that some key parts make this bike look like it always did. Thats why I want the same handlebars...they appear unobtainable though, I've bought 3 pairs of bars now..thats
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