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Offline mono

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14050 on: May 17, 2013, 08:35:26 AM »
jeez goldarrow!  your list of bikes has really grown lol !!  those pipes look nice. :)
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Offline Stev-o

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14051 on: May 17, 2013, 04:12:44 PM »
Quote from: mono on May 17, 2013, 08:35:26 AM
jeez goldarrow!  your list of bikes has really grown lol !!

Yeah, he's become quite the hoarder!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14052 on: May 17, 2013, 04:26:26 PM »
Hey goldarrow, where do you get your carb kits? I need to replace only the orings as everything else is good
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14053 on: May 17, 2013, 04:29:46 PM »
Picked up a polishing motor.



Not bad for the first time and its not done.

Had to break from stripping the paint off the frame.
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Offline goldarrow

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14054 on: May 17, 2013, 04:40:37 PM »
Quote from: Stev-o on May 17, 2013, 04:12:44 PM
Quote from: mono on May 17, 2013, 08:35:26 AM
jeez goldarrow!  your list of bikes has really grown lol !!

Yeah, he's become quite the hoarder!

There's whole bunch of them round here in LA, I called myself enthusiast :D

Tews, don't remember off my head now but will look up for you once I get a chance.
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Offline Vinhead1957

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14055 on: May 17, 2013, 05:58:14 PM »
That polishing thing can become addicting
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14056 on: May 17, 2013, 06:10:03 PM »
Quote from: Vinhead1957 on May 17, 2013, 05:58:14 PM
That polishing thing can become addicting

Gotta get it down to a science though damn OCD
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14057 on: May 17, 2013, 06:15:07 PM »
Attempted to compound/polish/liquid glass my tank.

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Offline goldarrow

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14058 on: May 17, 2013, 07:27:51 PM »
Quote from: Tews19 on May 17, 2013, 04:26:26 PM
Hey goldarrow, where do you get your carb kits? I need to replace only the orings as everything else is good

Tews, I used these for the past few carbs, holding up well, there's trick on how to put them on

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CB500K-71-73-CB550K-74-76-CB500F-75-77-KZ750-Carb-Float-Bowl-Gaskets-SHIPS-FREE-/150836620430?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item231e902c8e&vxp=mtr
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Offline andrewk

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14059 on: May 17, 2013, 07:35:01 PM »
Today I test fitted my new side covers from frankenstuff.  Very high quality!  Starting to look respectable. 

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14060 on: May 18, 2013, 01:31:34 AM »
Quote from: Stev-o on May 17, 2013, 07:01:35 AM
Quote from: Terry in Australia on May 17, 2013, 04:06:07 AM
Quote from: Stev-o on May 16, 2013, 06:37:01 PM
Pulled this out of the at cave. Battery dead and no spark, need to get this one running this weekend. Hoping someone will like it better than me!




Fark! That's one ugly arsed F! ;D

I have to agree with you, Terry.   I cannot take the credit for it though, but could not pass it up for $1K.  Need parts for the Z1, this one needs to go!  CR, think I should list for $3500?!!

No worries mate, and I'll be impressed if you get $3500 for it, I only got $3750 for my minty F2 when I sold it, bikes are much more expensive on my side of the pond, but F's are reviled the world over! Cheers, Terry. ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14061 on: May 18, 2013, 02:04:39 AM »
took a good ride with a couple of mates,ran over quite a few rougher roads south over the border,decided to run lighter oil in  the forks so a beer and fork oil change.
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Offline Totaled108

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14062 on: May 18, 2013, 07:13:19 AM »

Honed cylinders, new rings, lapped valves and valve seals, done.

Thoroughly cleaned the head bolts and female side for them with brake cleaner and Q-tips, being very careful about keeping rocks and crap out of the other holes and the engine itself.

Since I forgot to keep the head bolts in the correct pattern as when removed, I threaded them all in moving some around till they all moved fully into the hole with just finger pressure.  In the end it worked out great, then all seemed to thread in smoothly and torque with same feel all around.




Maybe I shouldn't have done this, but added a very small amount of oil resistant high temp black RTV around the leak prone o-ring, just to take up a small amount of space around it and the head gasket.  Crossing my fingers it doesn't bite me in the butt.  Used less then what would fit in a single pea for both sides.



Custom ring compressors, using hand strength to hold them closed.





Feeding in the head bolts...



Torquing the bolts down in crisscross pattern.



Put '1-4 T' at TDC and installed cam chain and gear, cam at correct index point.



No pix of cylinder head cover installed, but that was installed just before leaving for bed.  All adjusting screws fully backed off, ready for adjustment.

Woohoo, what fun!

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Offline andy8190

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14063 on: May 18, 2013, 11:13:42 AM »
I did this today  :)
First attempt
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Offline derelicte

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14064 on: May 18, 2013, 12:33:13 PM »
Had my new tires mounted & balanced.  Left the axles at the shop ::)

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14065 on: May 18, 2013, 01:55:45 PM »
Rode about 80 miles today. Stopped to hang out with a few jackasses. Then while filling up had a guy stop over and invite me to a vintage bike show a few blocks from my house at the Ducati dealership.

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Offline 72 yellow

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14066 on: May 18, 2013, 02:42:25 PM »
Rode down by our nuclear power plant.... ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14067 on: May 18, 2013, 04:25:10 PM »
put it in a show and lost to the trail bike in the foreground. A little bitter.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14068 on: May 18, 2013, 04:38:27 PM »
Quote from: Flying J aka ffJMoore on May 18, 2013, 04:25:10 PM
put it in a show and lost to the trail bike in the foreground. A little bitter.




possible sandcast in the far upper right?
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14069 on: May 18, 2013, 04:44:49 PM »
there were two of them at the show. The one that was entered took first in class
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Offline Bankerdanny

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14070 on: May 18, 2013, 08:30:12 PM »
How are you and a mini bike in the same class even?
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14071 on: May 18, 2013, 08:37:07 PM »
Exactly! I emailed the people putting it on after and told them that it was crappy to even have a cafe racer class if your not going to award them. There were 7 people in my class. there were 3 classes with only 1 bike in them.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14072 on: May 18, 2013, 08:39:45 PM »
Flying j, do you happen to have a video of your bike running? I'm curious how it sounds!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14073 on: May 18, 2013, 10:12:00 PM »
Not the best video. Follow my build thread and ill be posting a better one up soon now that i have it at a ride-able state.
Start up 2
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Offline Terry in Australia

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #14074 on: May 18, 2013, 11:38:24 PM »
Quote from: Flying J aka ffJMoore on May 18, 2013, 04:25:10 PM
put it in a show and lost to the trail bike in the foreground. A little bitter.


Thats not even a trail bike mate, that's a monkey bike! What was so special about that? It didn't belong to one of the judges kids did it????? ;D
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I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)
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