The oil pump bolt issue has been fixed and so the clutch cover is back on with a set of new cover bolts from Yambits. But I need a few more bolts to finish of the rest of the engine including the water pump cover as I've been and mislaid them. That is very unusual for me so they must be around her somewhere. I haven't been able to activate the clutch from the arm yet, possibly due to the heaver springs, so will have to wait until the cable is on and give it another go so I'm not filling the engine with fluid yet.
Also put the generator cover on. Its a replacement that I cleaned and polished up.
While I was round there I played with the wiring. Connected up the neutral switch and then worked on the generator wiring routing. I would recommend getting the wiring routed with the engine off the bike in future as there is not a lot of room to work. But eventually the generator was connected up to the loom.
I also put some new exhaust studs onto the barrels. Again like the wiring it would probably have been a little easier to have done this with the engine off but at the time I didn't have them. They are just generic replacement studs but of a similar length and the correct pitch.
Now I was in two minds about putting the next bit up yet but I was so pleased I just have to share. Some other bits haven't been going to well so when I saw this I was very happy.
Yep I have some exhausts now. Martin77 of the TZR forum kindly built me a set of chambers and Dennis Trollope Racing provided a pair of TZ250 silencers via eBay. Even nicer than the set of pipes I was originally going to use.
The springs look really trick. I need some new nuts though and due to the thickness of the mounting plate and the studs I'm using a 1mm or 2mm washer just to space it out. Might also use some thread lock on them to be safe.
Martin wanted me to check the clearance at the rear shock linkage as his jig is based on a race bike so they are usually raised at the rear. I'm sticking with the road set up for now.
Left clearance looks good. And the side stand also clears the pipe.
Clearance on the right also looks good.
Have to share this one of the header and first bend as it really does look nice. Its seeing parts like that which makes it worthwhile.
And finally an idea of how it will all look together. Now all I have to do is take them off and paint them with some VHT black. Almost a shame to do that but it will protect them while in use.
Just waiting for Yamaha to send me some carb parts. Sort the engine balance bar out as its giving me problems. Oh and source a set of induction rubbers as so far people cant quite understand what an undamaged set actually look like. I have more than one set here that are only fit for the bin.