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6 hours ago, vfr400boy said:
Had a few hours sorting bike yesterday gave it a clean new oil, plastic welded front mud gurd up and fitted some pannier racks n top box rack iv never had hard luggage before, got them second hand was a bit tricky working out what bolts to but were etc but am happy , ready for some camping now
That’s it mate gotta keep em serviced. Looks good
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Up early this morning couldn’t sleep got some banging music on the headphones an got to it
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2 minutes ago, mC HULL said:
hopefully get the engine together this week if i get an hour i’ll bang a few pics up
Nice one mate
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1 minute ago, mC HULL said:
ye mate it can be hard work getting parts
the bottom end wasn’t bad i was lucky
60quid crank would need rebuilding but if the bearings good it’s served it’s purpose
That’s cheap mate good find for £60 you’d make that back selling the cases an gearbox separately out of that
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6 minutes ago, mC HULL said:
the kawasaki stuff is normally easy to get
old ktm i’ve just had to buy a second hand bottom end for a roller bearing can’t get it i just hope it’s ok when a split the cases lol piston had to be forged no sells a cast
Getting harder to get bits for the o3 kx but plenty of pattern parts about
bloody he’ll bet the bottom end wasn’t cheap I tryed buying a f****d 03 bottom end the guy wanted £700 for it the thing is with these mx bikes there worth more in bits loads of people are buying up cheap bikes to brake up for parts
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1 minute ago, mC HULL said:
you will have tighter clearances with cast mate forged expand more so you will have more chance of damage piston slap when the engine is cold
even if the owner is sensible and warms the engine before giving it any hammer i’d still choose cast my self mate but sometimes all you can get is forged just warm them up is all you can do
Our right mate
I’ll have to wait an see any how I haven’t even opened the engine up yet I don’t know if it’s buggered the cylinder up or not but the colour of the plug it wouldn’t of been long before melt down happened
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1 minute ago, mC HULL said:
the flywheel side seal is easy to spray easy start or carb cleaner etc around it see if it changes the note mate
i always stick with cast pistons were i can
Why stick with cast mate?
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2 minutes ago, tillylamp said:
yep...time for a tear down, when your done, how long between rebuilds...
Top ends on motor cross bikes vary some say after every race meeting they like to put a fresh top end on most people say 20hours some say you should get 40hrs I’ve a hour meter on mine I’m at 21.8hrs I think these little 125 should be done pretty regularly as they only have 1x piston ring and are a highly strung engine I think mines got a normal cast piston in it but think I’ll up grade to a forged race piston I’ve just looked at a kit it’s £150 for a top end kit
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6 minutes ago, tillylamp said:
wow that is low, did that bike start/run any good with 50psi....if it did, that gauge must be up the creek...a good engine would be around the 150psi mark, i think....
Amazingly it still runs
but lumpy as hell the revs hang up like it had a air leak ticks over like crap then cuts out I first thought crank seal was bad and drawing in air I’m guessing the only reason it runs with 50psi is because it ain’t got a conventional carburettor im using a lectron meter rod jetless carb on it so it’s self adjusting so would just dump the amount of fuel an air to run it. The gauge is a fresh un only used twice when I first put the bike together I’m sure it had about 160psi might have had a little more
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Little kx is whooped 🥲down on compression to much wringing its neck! I was going to wait a while an finish collecting all the bits to do a race themed build but looks like it’ll be getting fully stripped over the next week
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10 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:
That's what he's doing in his college course mate and has come on a lot better since a few other students have left as he was getting a bit led on with them aswell as stern words from my daughter and his father he is starting to knuckle down plus I gave him an ear bashing about him not taking his college course seriously and not learning a trade to end up like me at 63 working my guts out in a low paid boring mundane job.
Mate I can relate to this got a daughter in college now she’s not taking it seriously we had a word with her last week she said ok this week the last 2 days she was meant to be in college before braking up for Easter she decided she didn’t want to go in I get emails from college saying absent when I spoke to her she told me none of her mates went in then started giving me a load of shit about what she feels me an my misses went scorched earth at her I told her a few nasty home truths that she didn’t like I also told her I’ll be taking the phone I pay for I spoke to my old man (dad) her granddad he’ll be coming visiting later he’ll have a few wise words to say to her he’s like me says it how it is but he has more life experience on such matters he worked all his life in a dead end job hit retirement age with pension and can’t afford to be retired I think if there’s anyone who can get through to my daughter it’d be my dad
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15 hours ago, tatsblisters said:
I read your post out to the son in law today who's a welder though the daughter gave him a dirty look when I got to the part about Canadian woman. Lol . He has just been offered a job up Carlisle way on £500 a day though it means working away and the grandson is doing really well at college learning welding and engineering according to the tutors feedback they got from a parents meeting they had last week I just wish he could have got a proper apprenticeship but due to him not doing too well in English and maths in his exams has let him down.
Can always do English and maths at college mate that’s what I did when I left school I left with no grades couldn’t get a apprenticeship and couldn’t get on a mechanic’s course my first year I did English maths and information technology I done electronics an woodwork to fill the gaps in lessons throughout the week then welding in the evening for the first year by the second year I got on a mechanic course as my grades were correct probably about 8month in to the course I had to get work experience in a garage wasn’t long in to the work experience that the garage wanted to take me on as a apprentice on day release. Hope your son in law gets we’re he needs to be mate
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50 minutes ago, mC HULL said:
that’s handy to have mate splatter can be caused by all sorts normally power wire feed or arc is to long your looking for nice even penetration
you do push the weld on thick material mate but thin stuff you pull it let’s you control the heat then real thin you will have to stitch weld at times on off power then keep moving about until it’s all filled in
you don’t need a pedal mate you can control it with the torch most inverter tigs are2t and 4t now so you can pulse it or have it full power for big runs on thicker stuff and material
get one bought mate it can get addictive lol
like you say mate have the metal clean and your on to a winner
Defo a good skill to have stood me in good stead knowing how to weld
I’ll definitely be getting a tig welder for my little workshop but it’s at the back of the list for now as there’s a few other things I want to do first like rinsing my spare money on titanium and billet parts for this kx factory themed race bike I want to build
my pocket money is taking a proper hammering
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I’ve done quite a bit of welding went to evening classes when I was at college doing my mechanics course it was a decent course I really enjoyed doing it there was a farmer on the course we got pissed off with welding flat bits of clean metal we ended up getting the farmers dads sheep panals in an any gates that need mending. Learning to weld is a good skill to have mig is a pretty easy skill to pick up and arc welding is pretty easy just make sure you clean/grind or cut back to clean metal and have a good earth or else is spatters I wouldn’t bother with gasless welding it’s pretty cheese I was always told never drag the lance with mig always push the lance.ive done a bit of lead welding that’s pretty easy and brazing but it’s all practice I’ve done a bit of tig welding on stainless and aluminium but I wasn’t that good tbh I was pretty shit because I’d not had much practice I couldn’t get use to pedal operation I’m actually thinking of getting a tig welder for my workshop as it’d be handy to have tig welder as now there a lot better an user friendly than 25yrs ago
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1 hour ago, twobob said:
Air cured or oven cured put your parts in a way you can pass even when spraying its not the same as powder maybe mask or bung anywhere you dont want paint good luck
oven cured mate i heat taped were the bearings fit as I didn’t want it playing about with the tolerance an sprayed one hub at a time to make sure i could get round everywhere the hardest part was getting a covering we’re the spoke heads sit as you got 2 head position pointing one way an one the other as these talon hubs have a strange spoke pattern not like normal wheels but was definitely a enjoyable process I’m gunner be doing a few other bits soon when I restrip the bike down like brake calliper,power valve cover,clutch side caseing
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On 22/03/2024 at 20:22, ryaldinhio said:
Heads up boys, anyone considering a few hens they are changing the rules. Used to be over 50 but from October now any/all birds kept are to be registered with DEFRA!
They will do anything to make it harder for people to provide for themselves.
That’s what the link dc posted on Wednesday was saying mate
its a load of shit ain’t it I can’t see how someone that keeps a small flock for eggs is a problem tbh I can understand these large commercial units having to register as there’s ££££ an someone has to foot the bill for losses or subsidys or contracts not met but with the amount of migrant birds carrying it there never control it plus the amount of poultry products imported that have lower standards than the uk it’s all a waste of time I personally think it’s a form of taxable control coming to the normal man that wants to live a bit of the good life
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8 hours ago, tillylamp said:
nice job bud, when you respoke a wheel is it easy to over tighten them....
Cheers fella I done these ones all even hand nipped up then marked the first spoke up with a bit of masking tape near we’re the valve for the inner tube then tightened every 3 spokes quarter of a turn with a spoke key till I’m back to the original spoke then add another bit of tape to the next spoke and go round every 3 again till the beginning this process is repeated 4 times you don’t have to wrench on the spokes just nip them bit by bit evenly or when you come to true the wheel on a trueing stand it’ll be all over the shop up down side to side you gotta remember if your over tighten say 12 o’clock 6 o’clock will be tighter. For correct tightness I done a sound test with a pencil run over the spokes they should all sound the same sound
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8 minutes ago, king said:
They turned out well mate..did you respoke them yourself..
Yes mate bit fiddly and time consuming
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There the excel rims I’ve had powder coated
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Party time hope they turn out half decent burnt bronze is the colour I went for
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1 minute ago, king said:
100% agree mate..youtube is brilliant for seeing how things are done..I've done clutches on cars rebuilt brake callipers even started welding from watching YouTube videos..but zinc or ceramic coatings is a good thing to learn
Anything I want to do or want to see how it’s done I use utube it’s a brilliant tool for insight an information.Good on ya mate that’s the way gotta have a crack your self if not your paying silly prices for someone else to do it
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6 minutes ago, downsouth said:
Ive got an expansion pipe off one of my scooters being ceramic coated at the moment after seeing a couple of pipes my pals had done on a couple of old XL 500s hes restoring.Nothing fancy just matt black but gotta be better than keep painting them.
suppose to be real hard durable stuff on the read ups I’ve done on it your have to pop some pictures up once it’s done mate
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9 minutes ago, king said:
Fair play mate you have a keen interest..I've never seen how they use zinc etc..I'm still in the rattle can stage lol..
Cheers mate
Mate we all gotta learn somewhere I watch a lot of how toos on utube it’s like a lot of these specialist skills once you see how they do stuff you think to your sen that don’t look to hard to do bet with a bit of practice I could do just a good a job. Nowt wrong with the rattle can stage king just had flashbacks of my youth talking of rattle cans many of dodgy£10 bmx bikes were sprayed black
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Project motorcycles before an after
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Cleaned the frame up and made a start reassembling it how I want it. made a custom billet steering stop for the new triple clamps gunna be a really trick little bike once done