having got some time on it this weekend i realised its been over a month, i'm a bad zzr owner
i've been waiting for the rest of the hydraulic pipes to turn up and mrs spotty to release me from gardening duties and finally....
i got the new ( proper length) top brake pipe fitted, new clutch hose, new colour coded banjo bolts ( green , what else could they be, they've got to match the hoses) all done
fitted the radiator and oil cooler, having a great day here.....
time to hook up the radiator hoses, no problem there
time to hook up the oil cooler lines, oh dear....fcuk
most of them are just about accessible with all the rest of the stuff on except for one tiny little oil pipe which lives halfway along the motor underneath just behind the exhaust pipes
first i thought i might be able to get to it if i took half the engine cradle off, tried that and then remembered the cradle is one piece for both sides of the motor, took ten minutes to undo , two hours to get it back together
so then off comes the radiator, oil cooler and exhaust, hooked up the little oil pipe only to discover i don't have enough banjo washers of the correct size for the rest of the oil pipes, so now i have to wait for them, and just to be awkward theres 2 different sizes
i also just realised that the oil feed to the heads ( which should definitely be attached before you put the engine back in the frame, as i found out the hard way) may have been installed without seals or washers so now i've got to take that lot back off again to check. you can bet that if i do take it off there will be seals, if i don't take it off then it'll piss oil cos i didn't put seals in...
so all in all 3 steps forward, about 15 back
bollocks
i would have posted this in the pissed off thread but it'll just make me more pissed off