Suzy bares all!!

[dizzyblonde]

I started to put these on the tweaking 'suzy got nakid' but decided they were soooo bad they needed a thread all of their own soooo

Warning graphic images of full on RUST:smt103:smt103

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theres more to come

[hovis]

she's a minger

[dizzyblonde]

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[Ed]

What the hell did you do to it:smt010

[dizzyblonde]

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[Apophes]

for some strange reason i now feel alot better about my dirty one

[rictus01]

so storage was in salt water then :shaking:

Cheers Mark.

[dizzyblonde]

this one needs a frame all of its own:smt013

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_01260024.jpg

[DarrenSV650S]

I'm phoning the RSPCSV

[dizzyblonde]

and so the rosd to recovery begins at long last

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the whole lot is pretty bad, Chris still battling with rusty exhaust studs, but there is light there somewhere.....well it started with the fork polishing

And seeing as though Dave is a pretty high standard shes got a whole long way to go yet

[Wideboy]

*THUD* :pale:

[dizzyblonde]

What the hell did you do to it:smt010


shes been used every winter since she was bought new. Im Indoors didn't look after her very well and i stole her off him. She was supposed to have a full rebuild last Feb but my mechanic was knocked off a customers bike and sustained some pretty nasty injuries....he still is on hand to give advice, but can't work on a bike for the forseeable future so Yorkiechris stepped forward

Hasten to add Im Indoors has nearly finished our SRX600 rebuild and it should be on the road so we can pull both the Raptor and Dave out of the winter loop....not that I let Dave out of the shed in the wet anyway. Suzy is on schedule to be finished before i MOT her in April...

She may be only worth scrap, but to me shes worth a fortune in sentimental value, and she was the first brand new bike Im Indoors bought with the compo from his first big accident......I wouldn't sell her for the world, and for all the rust shes got, she still rips yer arms off on a ride and pulls like a train

[Stig]

I know what you mean about sentimental value only. Mine isn't worth a bean but we have history. Never been sentimental about a bike before but I am with this one.

[dizzyblonde]

For all the shine that the black bike has, it ain't got a spot on her. As soon as i get on I enjoy every minute warts and all. She has a whole load more guts than the black bke......and roars louder too

[missyburd]

poor suzy :cry:

I'm phoning the RSPCSV

the rehabilitation is on though, no need to call the RSPCSV yet :-P

[dizzyblonde]

*THUD* :pale:


tis what I did when I walked in Chris's garage!!!:smt010

[Ed]

Not having met Chris or 'im indoors - who's the bloke in the pic?

[dizzyblonde]

yorkiechris is the one in the pic, and Im Indoors is the odd looking individual in my avatar

[Wideboy]

think that's chris's ugly mug

[Lissa]

Oh

My

God!!!!!!!

[Frank]

cool.a brown SV

[steveg]

How many miles has it done?
I rode a Kawasaki zephyr 550 for 3 winters and that was in a bad way but no way as bad as your photos ...

Good luck with the rebuild

Cheers Steve

[dizzyblonde]

would you believe she has passed every one of her M.O.T's since I got her three years ago and to be quite fair, she hasn't changed that much in those three years neither. That shock has been like that for all that time....it still works you know



remember its only rust:smt103




anyway, should have a new one on her any day now...Lissa what do you think of the progress on the forks?



in answer to the question of mileage? 21000, which is 9000 less than my other

[Lissa]

Looking much better Dizzy, I can see you've put some real effort in:D

Satisfying, isn't it?:D

[Ed]

I'd love to be able to sort a bike like that. But I wouldn't know where to start.

[dirtydog]

I don't feel so bad about the rusty bits on mine now :rolleyes:

[dizzyblonde]

Looking much better Dizzy, I can see you've put some real effort in:D

Satisfying, isn't it?:D

they're far from finished, they got a few lumpy bits I can't get rid of...nitromorse wasn't tough enough, spent all day yesterday, scrubbing and polishing, to get half way there. Haven't got a bench grinder like you, and i want to say to everyone when they're done that I did them rather than cheating and getting a polish shop to do it.

i keep comparing them to my other Sv but they ain't shiny enough yet, and i haven't even got to the wheel rims yet. thats after i attack the front subframe with dome potent rust stuff. I cheated with the rear and bought another one:lol:

[Frank]

rust is not allowed down my path:D

[fizzwheel]

thats pretty much what my K1 looks like after 36K and a few salty winters, apart from my chain and rear shock are now where near as bad as your are !!!

( only because it had new chain and sprocket and a 2nd hand OEM rear shock fitted a while back )

Surface rust and dirt doesnt really bother me on the SV, I'd rather ride my bikes than spend time polishing the hell out of them, but fair play to you if you're gonna do it, do it properly.

[Richie]

So is Dave an electrician then?

[Lissa]

they're far from finished, they got a few lumpy bits I can't get rid of...nitromorse wasn't tough enough, spent all day yesterday, scrubbing and polishing, to get half way there. Haven't got a bench grinder like you, and i want to say to everyone when they're done that I did them rather than cheating and getting a polish shop to do it.

i keep comparing them to my other Sv but they ain't shiny enough yet, and i haven't even got to the wheel rims yet. thats after i attack the front subframe with dome potent rust stuff. I cheated with the rear and bought another one:lol:

Yeah, I've got a spare swing arm I'm slowly working on. I could send it off to be polished, but I want to do it:D

It may not look as good as a professional job, but it'll be all my own work:D

[Ed]

So is Dave an electrician then?

No he's got a cable fetish

[dizzyblonde]

So is Dave an electrician then?

Daves my wife now!!! its the black bike I had at the AR last year richie

Yeah, I've got a spare swing arm I'm slowly working on. I could send it off to be polished, but I want to do it:D

It may not look as good as a professional job, but it'll be all my own work:D


:smt103you must really have a polishing fetish, the swingarms anodised and will take you an eternity to polish.....but mmmmmmmm it will look nice, as our YPVS has a polished RGV swingarm and thats sexy as helll

[yorkie_chris]

think that's chris's ugly mug

Oh

My

God!!!!!!!


Is it really that bad?

[stewie]

cool.a brown SV

Pedro,s got one of them, I think they call it copper though ;)

[Lissa]

Is it really that bad?

Aw, no sweetie, I've seen worse:D















































I live with worse;)

[Lissa]

Pedro,s got one of them, I think they call it copper though ;)

Ginger, Stewie, it's ginger!

[northwind]

shes been used every winter since she was bought new.

So has mine! Well, nearly, it got one winter off after the last owner rode it into a truck :)

Remember Admin John used to do his restoration threads? That was the worst shape SV I'd ever seen. Til this one.

[dizzyblonde]

ok so the forks in the previous photo were nitromorsed and autosol'd, but the finish wasn't a spot on my othr Sv so we decided (as I don't have bench grinders n stuff) to do it the hard way. with a boat load of wet n dry, elbow grease and autosol, the fork on the left of this photo is the final result.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_01290001.jpg

bearing in mind that the bottoms of these forks are soooo bad anything is an improvement. The one on the right is getting saved til tomorrow to finish. Its already half way there but me fingers are really sore. I did this one all by my self and as Lissa says polishing is very satisfying. The one on the right was started by chris so theres not as much to do

[yorkie_chris]

Cool :cool:

Main conclusion, 240 grit is way too fine for getting pits and cast-in roughness off the forks

[dizzyblonde]

some of the pits are sooo deep you lose your bike in em

[Lissa]

Looking really good, Dizzy. You must be pleased:D

I did the forks on our first SV the hard way................Nitromors, wet and dry and Autosol...................and with them still on the bike too:rolleyes: That was a challenge:D

The polishing wheel just speeded the whole process up the second time............and didn't make my fingers as sore. I still had to do the Nitromors bit though:D

[dizzyblonde]

think I must have had my polishing head on today, it started with polishing the other SV this morning.I got some brush on rust thing for the front subframe yesterday, painted that on this aft an wadooyaknow, it disappeared. so now i can tackle repainting that. Then I've spent a few hours doing the forks...so a good productive day....just shows you what an arguement with your employer will do...lol

[yorkie_chris]

Now then. What are we going to do with the yokes?

[Lissa]

Having teenagers has a similar effect:D

Don't have that problem anymore, Thank God.................but then I have Pete:p

[dizzyblonde]

Now then. What are we going to do with the yokes?


dunno, anyone suggest owt?

[Keith1983]

Surely a nice bit of colour coding via a powder coating would look nice?

[dizzyblonde]

erm, maybe. The yolks aren't too bad, they were always blathered in some sort of oily substance to protect them..don't fancy colour coding the entire bike yellow though...lol

[yorkie_chris]

Grrrrrrr

Calipers are corroded solid.

T*r-w*t.

[Keith1983]

maybe go black with them? Or go daft and get them chromed, that is merely an option and in no way a suggestion, let alone one which I endorse!

[northwind]

Polish the whole bike. You know you want to :smt003

[yorkie_chris]

Are you trying to ensure I NEVER get my garage back?

SHHH!

[missyburd]

Are you trying to ensure poor Dizzy has no fingers left also!!

[Keith1983]

I presume you're not going for a respray or anything like that?

[dizzyblonde]

Grrrrrrr

Calipers are corroded solid.

T*r-w*t.

whats new??:rolleyes:

[dizzyblonde]

Polish the whole bike. You know you want to :smt003


originally i had a goal which my good friend Pat planted in my brain....a picture of a yellow sv in a streetfighter back issue....the frame were polished, swingarm, forks...everything but the yellow bits...then I decided it would be waaaaaaay too much bling, so i am trying for the modest approach instead, and adding more yellow instead:cheers:with the bellypan and hugger and cowl. mmmmmmmmmm yellow

[northwind]

Polishing's a disease. Unfortunately it's a disease that can only be cured by more polishing. But on the plus side, once you polish a part you have to do it again, and again, and again, so you'll never run out :smt003

If you like shiny, and you have a bit of a budget, aerocoat's chrome powdercoat is pretty fantastic.

[Keith1983]

more yellow hey? get the wheels painted to match the bike then! yummy!

[dizzyblonde]

nope, polishing the rims, i have them on the other bike and i prefer them. Its actually easier to polish them every wash, the muck doesn't look too bad when it covers them, I think painted wheels look worse when they're mucky.

[Keith1983]

oooooh polished wheels with yellow rim tape!

[dizzyblonde]

oooooh polished wheels with yellow rim tape!


nooooooooooooooooooo thats sooooooooooooooo chavvy, nowt more chav than rim tape, or is there??? yeah there is.... lights behind the frame, highlighting the engine:mrgreen:

[Keith1983]

oh dear. you could always get a nice burberry paint job! lol

[dizzyblonde]

i wa kidding, i wouldn't want them, i do have some taste

[Keith1983]

thank goodness. still variety is the spice of life so they say.

[northwind]

originally i had a goal which my good friend Pat planted in my brain....a picture of a yellow sv in a streetfighter back issue....the frame were polished, swingarm, forks...everything but the yellow bits...then I decided it would be waaaaaaay too much bling, so i am trying for the modest approach instead, and adding more yellow instead:cheers:with the bellypan and hugger and cowl. mmmmmmmmmm yellow

Aye, I remember that one, Pyramids bellypan, badly thought out Zorstec exhaust, wee round headlights, kicked up tail... Nice, it was.

[sv-robo]

aaaaarrrrrhhhh!!!!!! my eyes,they burn they burn i tell ya:)

[dizzyblonde]

so, chris has had a good gawp underneath and the engine parts that get the most crud and abuse off the road are extremely corroded, it a headscratcher as to what to do about it as I really can't afford to be going for an engine respray, any ideas gang??

Subframes and yokes off to powdercoater this week

[northwind]

Can of engine paint from Halfords?

[cuz]

that sv would give me and kwak a challenge with the autosol

[kwak zzr]

this one needs a frame all of its own:smt013

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_01260024.jpg

speechless

[kwak zzr]

I started to put these on the tweaking 'suzy got nakid' but decided they were soooo bad they needed a thread all of their own soooo

Warning graphic images of full on RUST:smt103:smt103

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_01260008.jpg

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theres more to come

:smt022:smt022:smt022:smt022:smt022

[dizzyblonde]

sorry kwak, really I am, I love suzy very much as she has served me very well. Shes now got a pair of polished legs...just spent the last three hours doing the second one. It was the worst and I've got it looking pretty ok. At least you can see your face in them nowhttp://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_01290001.jpg

I got two that look like the left one..yippeee

[blueto]

hey dizzy its looking good. I have spent hours, weeks days months polishing to acheive my desired affect, & guess what. I still need to polish things. shiney is cool!

I think you are doing a superb job. Keep up the good work. Id like to see it once shes done.

Well done

[Skip]

Blimey that is one rusty bike! Glad to see its being brought back from the brink though :)

Good to hear that Dave is being pampered still! ;)

[Dualcyclone]

Sweet Jesus...

I bought some of this stuff for my bike:
http://www.mandp.co.uk/productinfo.aspx?catRef=901733

Dont know whether it'll do the job - but after seeing these very graphic images of this poor baby; at least I know where to spray this wonder syrup in her nether regions!

[yorkie_chris]

Good stuff, that.

It's mainly a repair job now, the engine's going to have to come out so as we can treat the underside of it for corrosion, as its well manky. Then it'll need re-lacquering.

First it needs a front-end putting back on.


Once more into the breach anyway, I'm off down the garage to rebuild the brakes.

[jambo]

Holy crud!

I say this as someone that goes 10 months without cleaning a bike. I have never seen that much rust on an SV. Anyone would have told you which parts were steel and which were alloy, storing it in a salt water tank was not entirely necessary.

Best of luck with the rebuild!

Jambo

[yorkie_chris]

storing it in a salt water tank was not entirely necessary.

Rear caliper pins, or the bolts refuse to move, despite filling the little cavity behind the bolt with penetrant oil for a week.

Lovely.

[jambo]

Polishing's a disease. Unfortunately it's a disease that can only be cured by more polishing. But on the plus side, once you polish a part you have to do it again, and again, and again, so you'll never run out :smt003

If you like shiny, and you have a bit of a budget, aerocoat's chrome powdercoat is pretty fantastic.

Polishing is a very pretty form of erosion/corrosion (think about it). I tend to avoid weight reduction using this method.

[dizzyblonde]

Blimey that is one rusty bike! Glad to see its being brought back from the brink though :)

Good to hear that Dave is being pampered still! ;)


Indeed Dave is still being pampered. We found the carbs arms were knackered on it , tis why it wouldn't run right at the AR. It got a damn good wash and polish last week, only to be ruined the day after, but it got a good blast with Fs365 afterwards, it'll probably get yet another wash tomorrow. Thing is its easier to clean a claen bike than a rusty manky one, because you know where to begin...I only hope that Suze will be half as nice lookin as Dave when she's finished, so she'll be easier to do.

chris went to put the new shock on today only to find that after nearly a year of being stored under the bed, that, its the wrong one. Luckily Wemoto have been nice enough to admit they probably didn't notice, have ordered another from Hagon and will get the courier to send it straight to me and pick the other one up at the same time. fingers crossed......i wasn't best happy.

Pics of my scrubbed front sub coming up, not so rusty now, but off to powdercoaters next week, along with the rear one and the spare I picked up, just in case they bead blast holes in it:(

Fingers crossed Suze will be making an appearance at the AR this year

[kwak zzr]

sorry kwak, really I am, I love suzy very much as she has served me very well. Shes now got a pair of polished legs...just spent the last three hours doing the second one. It was the worst and I've got it looking pretty ok. At least you can see your face in them nowhttp://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_01290001.jpg

I got two that look like the left one..yippeee

i let u off thats a great job you done there :)

[yorkie_chris]

An update here...

The front exhaust studs are OFF :-D

Only taken 2 days of persuasion, heating, cooling, oiling, shock cooling etc.


Also got the bike upside down and am cleaning up the bottom of the engine, it's going to get an acid etch and a coat of lacquer.

[jambo]

Oh now if you were going to turn the bike upside down why bother removing the forks? Easy way to change the fork oil that is:D

[yorkie_chris]

I'm wondering how much I can actually reassemble it, just for an amusing photo... "how NOT to use an abba stand..." teehee

[dizzyblonde]

I really do wish Im Indoors had taken a photo of it upside down ( it is only the main frame and engine lump left) in fact I'm so distraught that I might go and do it tomorrow, however it did make it easier to attack the bottom of the engine with a drill + wire brush attachment, and get those damn studs out...yippeeeeee

[dizzyblonde]

oh heres Chris picking up some bits last week mad git

And the photo you've all been waiting for
How to really clean the undermeath of your bike and extract really really stubborn exhausts studs...a tried and tested method, by chris and Im Indoors

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02080003.jpg
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[missyburd]

oh heres Chris picking up some bits last week mad git


http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02080003.jpg



:laughat:abominable snowman!

[dizzyblonde]

right this is odd stuff.barkeepers friend-asda £1.94.its a powder, you can either apply onto a wet cloth and rub( if its slightly tarnished) or turn it into a paste like substance similar to a toothpaste consistancy( trial and error). I did the paste way and let it sit on it for a while and kept rubbing it with green pads, washed it off thouroughly and then give it the autosol.


bearing in mind my pipes looked like this

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02120031.jpg

after faffing with this stuff...a little messy but i'm obsessed at the moment, it starts 'bleeding' brown stains, scrub a dub dub and it goes a not so very shiny this---

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02120032.jpg

wash it all off and dry it for this
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02120033.jpg

then autosol to this

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02120038.jpg

[northwind]

Ooh, good trick!

[yorkie_chris]

1 caliper down, 2 to go.

The first one was a complete t###.

I told you banging it with a hammer instead of servicing it wasn't a good idea.

[yorkie_chris]

Both front calipers are now rebuilt, seals were fine, but it literally looked like the seal cavities had been filled with chalk.

120psi to pop them out, that's a personal record! :-P


Shock and linkages etc. are back in, As is the exhaust, with copperslipped stainless studs this time. Maybe next time the system needs to move then they'll come off!

The polished forks look lovely, and now have hagon springs and 15w oil

Subframes back from the powdercoaters on monday hopefully

[dizzyblonde]

From me and Suzy......





we lub you:smt060

[Wideboy]

http://www.triumph675.net/forum/images/smilies/xscuseless.gif

for Monday plz :D

[dizzyblonde]

if chris gives me my camera back, you can have them on monday night, maybe, if your a good boy, nad if the frames are back from the powder coaters

[Welsh_Wizard]

more pics.. good thread :)

[dizzyblonde]

latest pics before the frames go to chris tomorrow...apparently these were NASTY callipers, I think this is the last photo chris took..rubber grease in there
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02180044.jpg


mmmmmm nice shiny shock and right way up
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02180043.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02180042.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02180041.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02180040.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02180039.jpg

they appeared to be filled with some chalk like substance that required some large amounts of brute force, including 120 psi of compressed air......or summat like that

[dizzyblonde]

the rusty subframe is no more, a nice shade of shiny black powdercoat. I used the spare one that I had done at the same time, because this one has a lot of pitting, but it will come in handy because the one on the black one needs doing too eventually
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02190051.jpg

mmmmmm huggy type object and shock, and spot that nice clean rear wheel
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02190050.jpg

fender extenda
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02190048.jpg

a better view of the huggy thing, and a nice shiny chain and sprocket set up
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02190047.jpg

new hagon prgressive forks in there, polished forks too. 15w oil.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/loubi650/2008_02190046.jpg

[Skip]

Looking really good there DB! :thumbsup:

[dizzyblonde]

i'm just the polisher, its Chris's handy work with big hammers and air blaster wotsits thats doing all the hard work. But I have my trusty Dremel now to clean up some of those rusty engine bolts and axle nuts etc

[Wideboy]

well done to chris and DB, very nice job :thumleft:, plz plz do the before and afters when done, they will look so cool lol :D