Topic: Terry's new new redneck K0 "Special"..........

[grcamna2]

Ha ha, no Per, I’m only spending enough to just buy the things I don’t already have to put it on the road. New tyres, ignition (electronic of course) Delkevic pipe, and (maybe) Yamiya seat. I’ll be using old lights, blinkers, levers, switches, as much of the original parts as I can. It’s not gonna be a “Yamiya Restoration”, just a redneck restification, I’m building it to ride, not to trailer to shows......

Terry,
Do you have a character in AUS who is a comedian like Jeff Foxworthy,who talks about Rednecks ? 

[Terry in Australia]

I don’t know if you know of Aussie actor Eric Bana Bill, but Eric started out here in Melbourne (he’s a car and bike nut) doing a standup routine about our version of rednecks, that we call “Bogans”.

[grcamna2]

I don’t know if you know of Aussie actor Eric Bana Bill, but Eric started out here in Melbourne (he’s a car and bike nut) doing a standup routine about our version of rednecks, that we call “Bogans”.

The actor who play's The Hulk ?! I didn't know he did comedy  I like good comedy 

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, he played a Special Forces sniper in “Blackhawk Down” and is currently making a movie about Mike Hailwood’s return to racing at the Isle of Man in 1978(?) Eric’s a very talented rider and race car driver, so will probably do most of the riding scenes. Not bad for a kid from the inner suburbs of Melbourne.

[grcamna2]

Yep, he played a Special Forces sniper in “Blackhawk Down” and is currently making a movie about Mike Hailwood’s return to racing at the Isle of Man in 1978(?) Eric’s a very talented rider and race car driver, so will probably do most of the riding scenes. Not bad for a kid from the inner suburbs of Melbourne.

I want to see that new movie with him about the Isle of Man,what's the name of it ?

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

I still remember him playing that tough Chopper Read.

[Terry in Australia]

No idea what the title is mate, it’s still being made, so we won’t see it for awhile. I named one of my cats Chopper after Chopper Reid, he was a bad arse, but also a highly intelligent bullsh1tter, he wrote a couple of books taking credit for a lot of things he had nothing to do with, some of which never actually happened, they were just jailbird lore.

He did have a weird sense of decency though, he had a terminal disease that could have been addressed with an organ transplant, which he refused, because he believed that there were far more deserving recipients than him. I couldn’t help but respect him for that.

[grcamna2]

I look forward to seeing it when complete and out.
Did the sandblasters finish bead blasting your frame ?

[Terry in Australia]

Damn! I forgot to call them Bill, I'll ring them tomorrow.

[Terry in Australia]

Oooher, two big boxes just got delivered, I wonder what could be inside? Pics to follow.........

[grcamna2]

Your K0 frame,they deliver it to you ?

[spotty]

Oooher, two big boxes just got delivered, I wonder what could be inside? Pics to follow.........

it'll be a pair of gorgeous twins in skimpy bikinis ( surely there is no other sort of bikini ) that are going to leap out and shower you with ginger champagne and sing happy birthday whilst writhing seductively ( surely there is no other sort of writhing ) in a pool of used 10/W40

[grcamna2]

Oooher, two big boxes just got delivered, I wonder what could be inside? Pics to follow.........

it'll be a pair of gorgeous twins in skimpy bikinis ( surely there is no other sort of bikini ) that are going to leap out and shower you with ginger champagne and sing happy birthday whilst writhing seductively ( surely there is no other sort of writhing ) in a pool of used 10/W40

Now that's the ticket ! 
Shop apprentices ! practice makes perfect 

[PeWe]

Oooher, two big boxes just got delivered, I wonder what could be inside? Pics to follow.........

it'll be a pair of gorgeous twins in skimpy bikinis ( surely there is no other sort of bikini ) that are going to leap out and shower you with ginger champagne and sing happy birthday whilst writhing seductively ( surely there is no other sort of writhing ) in a pool of used 10/W40

Yes, twins are not only motorcycles!!

[Terry in Australia]

You guys are pervs......... Anyway, back to reality for a moment, the doorbell rang and the wife intercepted the mailman who was struggling down the driveway with two large cartons.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

The sun was shining, it was warm outside, so I dragged the boxes outside. The first box yielded the following:

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9d by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 8 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 4 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I'd only asked the seller for the cases, so wasn't unhappy that he left in the gearbox gubbins, even though some were in pretty badly rusted condition:

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 5 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

No matter, freebies are freebies, and the counter shaft assembly was in minty condition, so made me happy, as I don't have one for  K0.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Speaking of freebies, he found the original K0 cam but in the pics he sent me it looked like the lobes were too badly rusted, so I said I didn't want to buy it, but would take it for free just because it's a K0 cam and unique, and he was happy to throw it in with the cases.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 8 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

As it turned out though, I cleaned the rust off on the wire wheel, and the lobes were all remarkably good. I oiled it and wrapped it in a rag, and will use it for the engine build. Bonus!

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9e by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

The battery box is odd. It's either been chromed or stripped to bare metal and has some pretty crusty rust forming, so it went straight into the phosphoric acid tub.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Same/same for the fender braces.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 7 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Even though this freebie is a K1 switchblock, it's in lovely condition, so as I don't have a K0 switch, it might have to do until I can find the real McCoy.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 6 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

The second box held the top engine case. Sadly there was a little bit of the standard K0 chain damage, that a PO had repaired with some ancient epoxy resin (Araldyte probably, it was the go to repair magic formula back in the day) but nothing a little JB Weld won't fix. There was no other damage that I could see, which is a good thing. The bottom case looks undamaged.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9a by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr 

Apart from the rusty gears, which I'll replace with nicer ones from my stash of K0 innards, the cases are really nice.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9b by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I was gonna get them blasted (the frame will be ready to collect tomorrow, which is good) but I think I'll use a bit of elbow grease, a wire brush and some paint stripper, and give them a good clean before I hit them with some engine enamel. I sprayed a heap of WD-40 penetrant on everything this morning, so hopefully I won't have any problems removing the guts before I give the cases a good clean up. More tomorrow.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9c by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
 
 

[Terry in Australia]

Wow, well the thing about having 4 projects at one time is that you can go a few days, weeks, or even months, before you get back to one or the other to actually show some progress. In the last week, I've collected the frame and swingarm from blasting, stripped the rusty gears and other components from the engine cases, and painted the frame and swingarm.

The frame looked way better after blasting.

K0 22 Oct 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

But there was rain on the way, so I quickly etch primed it and the swingarm to ensure that moist air wouldn't cause flash rusting.

K0 22 Oct 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I had a few little repairs to do to the frame and swingarm after 50 years of neglect, including filling some holes after a PO had pop riveted something to it at one stage, so I used my MIG and a little JB Weld Steel Stick filler to tidy them up. But in the mean time the weather was pretty crappy, so I concentrated on removing all of the rusty gears and bearings from the bottom case, the kickstarter assembly (God I hate those compression pins that hold the shaft in place, bad enough in an engine that has been freshly opened, but in one that's been sitting open in humid conditions for at least 20 years, it required heat, penetrant and several different attempts with various pliers, multigrips and vice grips, before I got it out.

K0 case cleanup Sun 25 Oct 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 5 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Anyhoo, I went to the $2 Shop after physio on Monday and bought a big plastic tub and tipped 30 litres of stagnant fuel out of my son's Explorer that's being resurrected after my old red one's transmission went to God, and dropped the filthy bottom crankcase into it, and gave it a god scrub. As filthy as it was, it impressed me that there were no broken castings, no apparent stripped threads, and even the original paint looks pretty good.

K0 clean 26 Oct 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Once I'd flushed it well with water, I put it in my industrial oven @ 110 deg C to thoroughly dry.

K0 bottom case cleaned by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I only had to remove the sprocket shaft and gear assembly from the top case, which I was happy was in perfect condition, because I didn't have one, and like most K0 parts, it's different from a K1-K6 part.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Luckily for me I bought a good K0 crank and gearbox gubbins a few years ago, so tomorrow I'll go find them and give them a clean in anticipation. The top case was in really nice condition too, apart from the usual K0 chain damage.

K0 cases 21 Oct 2020 9a by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

It's survived OK with the then "Go To" fix, Araldyte, a clear 2 part epoxy, so I'll grind that old sh1t off, and use some JB weld to repair it, and it should last another 50 years. Anyhoo, the top case is bathing in the stagnant fuel tub, and tomorrow I'll finish cleaning it, and think about giving the cases a coat of engine enamel and baking it on before I fill them with good mechanical guts.

I looked at the weather map today and it looks like there's more rain on the way, so I sneaked out this morning and gave the frame and swingarm a coat of gloss black ceramic enamel (whatever the hell that is) paint. Looks good.

K0 Frame Paint 29 Oct 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 swing arm 29 Oct 2020 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 swing arm 29 Oct 2020 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I drove over to my local Repco store (big box auto parts) to buy some fancy plug leads for my Dyna 2000 ignition I bought for my Kawasaki 1428 project, and another can of frame paint, as I still need to paint a few spots underneath the frame. The store has just re-opened after 16 weeks of home delivery and pre-order in car pickups, so I became quite excited as I walked around the store. I picked up a jug of good quality motorcycle 15W-50 oil for the F2 and some blue RTV case sealant, some more JB weld and a couple of things I'd pre-ordered that didn't come in until today.

They didn't have a selection of random plug leads that I could just grab off the shelf, I had to tell them what model car so they could sell me a set etc, which I think is ridiculous, so didn't buy any, I have some copper core plug wire here and new NGK caps, and another set of those pretty blue flashing caps, so I'll just use them. I drove to the gas station and filled my car for the first time since March(?) and took it thru the car wash, which was very disappointing, I spent another 5 minutes with the gas station windscreen mop cleaning all the bits that the car wash brushes missed. I then realised that I hadn't bought a can of paint, so was driving back to Repco  when it started to spit rain. Fcuk! Fcuk the paint, I broke all records getting home as quick as I could so I could get the frame under cover.

My garage is so full of bikes and parts, there is just nowhere to put a shiny but tacky black frame:

K0 Frame Paint 29 Oct 2020 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

So I carried it into the "Sheltered Workshop" and found just enough room on the bench, previously taken up by the GPZ1100 engine. Thank God.

K0 Frame Paint 29 Oct 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

So tomorrow, depending on the weather, I'll paint the cases in preparation for the engine rebuild. If it's raining, I'll go back to finishing the GPZ1100 engine install into the KZ1000 frame, or fix the leak in the F2 gas tank, or finish buttoning up the Kawasaki Z1-B 900 (Moriwaki 1100cc) engine, or fabbing some additional crankcase breathers for the 1428cc Kawasaki engine. It's good to have options.

My oldest son wandered out with a pic of my old Drag Bike, the 1100cc Suzuki GS1000 based beast (Yoshi cams, 13.5:1 pistons, ported head, bigger valves, welded and balanced crank etc etc) that I was given by one of my young soldiers who was taking discharge from the Army, and didn't want to take it with him. I had no use for a drag bike, I like to go around corners, so the 140 RWBHP engine found it's way into a stock GS1000 that I bought cheap with a blown gearbox. It was great fun, but after a close encounter with the Great Pumpkin at maximum warp, I sold it to a guy in Britain, who paid a heap of dough to have it shipped to England, stripped it to have the frame and wheels blasted and powdercoated, and all his parts were stolen, never to be seen again. Some guys have no luck at all...

1428 GPZ Drag Hag by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

 

     



 

[PeWe]

Case had crack or old epoxy just for scuffing chain marks?

[Terry in Australia]

No, there's a piece that's been busted in Per, so I'll need to do some JB Weld surgery.

[grcamna2]

That frame looks very good Terry,even the left side bottom frame(under the kickstand) rail,no problem? The camshaft was a good plus to this K0 project.

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks Bill, yep I was ‘rapt that the cam is in such good shape, if it wasn’t I would have just used any cam I had in my garage, but it will be nice to run all K0 internals. I do have another K0 cam, but from memory one of the lobes is sketchy.

No rust holes in the frame at all, (there were some small holes drilled for pop rivets for some reason that I didn’t see until after it was blasted) but underneath as there was a thick layer of ancient chain grease coating everything, I had to use my gas torch and a wire brush to get it off.

There is some pitting here and there, but probably not as bad as the Swamp Rat last year.

[754]

I find the serial no on cases  interesting. I have 20, 310 I think, and another member on here has 20, 62× I do believe..

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, it’s a pity I didn’t have an earlier frame number Frank or I would have used my 1010XXX engine cases, but a 1970 K0 is still a K0.....

[754]

Yep, looking for a frame for a 10, xxx myself .. got a few motors only 1 frame.. one of the very last ..about 200 from the end, have motor for it

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah I was really lucky Frank, I put out the word on FB awhile ago that I was looking for a K0 frame, the only bite I got was a guy in Perth who had a bare frame with no swingarm, who wanted $3K, from memory. That was way too rich for me, and wouldn't have gotten me much closer to having a finished bike.

This one was an absolute bargain, and the seller could have sold it for a lot more, but he is a really decent guy, and is interested in the progress of the build, he's had this stuff under his house for over 20 years and is just happy that I'm building a bike to ride, not to sell.

[Terry in Australia]

So still "Slaving from home", but being a Friday, and being that the sun was out, I sneaked outside and painted the underside of the frame and a couple of little bits on the swingarm that I'd missed last night. Being enamel, it takes forever to dry, and as more rain was forecast for later in the day, I needed to get it done.

Once I'd finished slaving for the day the sun was still out (as it usually is mid-afternoon) so I pulled the bottom engine case out of the oven and gave it a thorough cleaning.

K0 bottom engine case 30 Oct 2020 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I gave it a wash with prepsol then when it dried, hit it with some etch primer.

K0 bottom engine case 30 Oct 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Then a coat of engine enamel. Two coats actually, the first was a VHT product and too bright and silvery, so I let it dry, then I used another can of aluminium colour (brand name forgotten, I am drinking heavily) and was much happier, as it looks much closer to the original paint that was still there.

K0 bottom engine case 30 Oct 2020 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

About 15 minutes later, it started to spit rain, so I put it back in the oven. I then gave the top case another scrubbing and hosed out all the oilways, and shoved it in the oven as well, then cooked them for 2 hours @ 110 deg C. Tomorrow I need to do the repair on the top case, so I might fill the bottom case with mechanical guts, as my new main bearings arrived yesterday, so the crank and gearbox can go in. More tomorrow.  

K0 bottom engine case 30 Oct 2020 4 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr