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MCTID:
Lovely bikes, and a credit to you......I had a Suzuki T500 in 1975.....I rode across Canada and the US (Toronto to Banff). 6000 miles in 3 weeks and it never missed a beat. When I bought it new, the bike had an intermittent misfire and I had it back to the Dealer umpteen times......in the end I threatened to give him the bike back. He left it running in a corner of the garage and he noticed that in the shadows he could see the spark plug covers (galvanised steel) arcing against the frame rails under the tank. He simply cut off the covers - problem solved!
Hope you get your misfire sorted OK.
Zunspec:
Hello MCTID,
The engine mis-fire seems to be improving after more running. Rather frustratingly after removing the front callipers to extract the wheel for the tyre replacement I now have the RH disc binding, seems the pad is not coming out square and then won't re-tract (knew I should not have stripped everything to clean it all up lol). Typically we are having a nice spell fine weather I can't get out to see how the new Avons perform.
If you like T500s, here's a photo of my restored T500 :D
Cheers Geoff
MCTID:
:D
A thing of beauty.......the colour also reminds me of another old favourite of mine.....the Triumph Stag and TR6 which particularly suited Magenta........splendid. Thanks for posting.....I'm proper jealous.
Zunspec:
I have a small silencer problem after taking the bike for a thrash yesterday lol :
There are also cracks on the underside, and the right hand silencer also has at least one rust hole. I am hoping these can be repaired but if this is typical of the general degradation of the base metal it may turn out that fixing one hole will lead to another failure somewhere else.
As the likelihood of sourcing a replacement set of Seeley silencers is pretty slim I may have to get some replicas made as I would like to keep the bike looking factory std. if I can.
Cheers Geoff
Zunspec:
Happy Yule season all,
The headers came back from their re-chroming. Also had the exhaust retainer thingies zinc plated.
New stainless replica silencers should be ready after the festive period.
Cheers Geoff
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