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Finally after too many years I'm working on my 500/4

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matthewmosse:
Lol, I also think I shall blame my dad. The beam the ntv exhaust is hanging off was salvaged off an old shed 40 years ago, bought home and built into a goat shed, when that was redundant, it got built into a kiln shed for dads pottery, now it is on the same site as part of my workshop. Crowning achievement of taking on insane challenges has to be our house rennovation, only 'trade' we bought onsite was the electrician, and for the re roofing we started by cutting down a few dozen trees in the woods for the timber, got them home behind a 1960 s2 landrover and had them sawn by a mobile mill. The barn my workshop is a corner of even has the roof tiled with wooden shingles which dad made at home. The entire structure is 16 metres long, 5.5 tall to the lowest point of the eves and 8 wide. All log construction and pulled from the forest by horse and dad, he is quite mad. I think we just like a challenge. Doing the metalwork is actually something I really enjoy, I had a bit of a flair for it I  collage and am even considering if I could knuckle down to it, raise my standards of workmanship a bit and try doing a few bits of tinwork like vintage mudguards etc and see if I can earn a bit better than the trifling pittance I get being a care worker.

Bryanj:
If you can find them i would love the frame and engine numbers off the K0, there are a LOT of small differences on them, i know somebody on here who wants the original fork ears with small reflectors and rubbers!!

mickwinf:
Bryan I have a pair of nos KO headlamp brackets on my K1 with the small hole for the reflectors, not sure if I should drill and tap out or use the older style reflector.

matthewmosse:
I shall try to dig that info out for you Brian, might take a few days, remind me if I haven't rooted them out by the weekend. In my judgement the bike looked like it had been stooc unmolested for quite some considerable time so it may be the real macoy on the other hand it my just have inherited a lot of k0 bits. It would be nice to know if it were early, not that it really matters I geuss, it will probably be given a similar rebuild with minimal intervention. It still had the stickers on the rear guard under the seat though the tank is plain black so I geuss it has been re spreayed and all the chrome is worse for wear. It also lacked the chrome trim on the tank.

matthewmosse:
Backward step today, after a week of fencing and so fourth and no bike time, took an hour to try finishing off fitting the forks with the beefy helper springs. Previously I had them loosely in place and sat about an inch too low in the bottom yoke so they were below the top yoke. The beefy helper springs ( actually they are the springs off a dead set of superdream shocks, sat on custom ally seats to protect the fork tops ) problems arising so far on this setup, - the 500 fork ears have a spacer thing to hold the fork gaiters below the yokes, with these in place for some reason even pulling the forks up with rachett straps I cannot get the things to come up in the yokes enough, I think the helper springs should have that much give in them though I suspect the fork ears would need these lower rings removing for this setup to work in any case. Annoying as the setup fitted together off the bike on a spare set of yokes but not now. It also needs proper disk bolts not whatever was the right length in my bolts box, speedo gearbox looks very close to the bolt heads too. Overall I am thinking of reverting to what was there which looked stock, but had massive pre load spacers. I am not happy with modifying the fork ears, or particularly happy with loosing the gaiters. Twin disking I am not sure is needed. I only had that setup due to being told in my early biking days that my old 550k3 project bike would need it. On my green 500/4 sidecar I know the single disk was always capable of locking the front wheel. I will stop and think on it but may ditch the helper springs, or use 550 fork ears, I just don't know yet.

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