Owenski's Rapid Renovation Project

More progress and more delays so far this weekend, I need at least one more post visit to be able to complete thanks to the most trivial of items been MIA. The end is in sight now though, a little bit more modification and some customisation to take place and ill be home free I "could" theoretically fully finish the back end tomorrow... If I will or not is another story.
Tune in next time to discover what adventures tomorrow brings.

Not much done yesterday, Christmas has already started getting in the way, bOOOOOOOO!!

Still I've got Saturday's pics to post up and a bit of a jump forward in the development of it thanks to mounting some front end bits on there.

After receiving the top yoke for Oliver early last week it became apparent that the after market handle bars I intended to fit would need a different bolt to the one I'd originally ordered (originally ordered for the drz so it wasn't a massive shocker). Anyway that bolt showed up and the bugger had a 11mm dia neck, the SV yoke has a 10mm hole... out came the drill and as if by magic the yoke now had a pair of 11mm holes.


Quick dry fit of the mounts and the bars, I've learnt my lesson many times over in the past so NOTHING is getting tightened until I know its tickety boo.
Here are the bars mounted on their chunky mounts... look amaze-balls!


I did want to chop 20mm off the ends of each bar but when I dry fitted all the switches and levers I discovered I would have run out of room on the flat before the bars bend and gain diameter... they're oversize fat bars too so very very little can be mounted anywhere but on the 28mm sections.
A picture of the bars including all the hardware mounted.



You cant see from the pic above but the bars have another tasty mod in that I've added shortly spazzo levers:


I've used the same type previously, only they were not shorty levers and with this been a winter bike I figured if it gets dropped the shorter levers are less likely to make contact with the deck.
I never actually took a picture of it all tightened up and the heated grips (shown pictured) glued on and wired in. They're currently wired into the battery but that's only for testing purposes, they'll be wired into a fuse box almost (if not) identical to the ones Lance is knocking up.

Still required before completion:

Rear:
Mount Rear Calliper,
New Brake Fluid + Bleed,
Stubby the Exhaust & Repack
Mount Hugger,
Mount Numberplate,
Tension Chain,
Route and Prime Scottoiler tubing.

Middle Bit
Mount Bellypan,
New Engine Oil,
New Coolant.
Will get the throttle bodies balanced as well but only after its built and running, that when I'll also remove a couple of S model brackets which I'd left on by mistake.

Front:
Mount Mirrors,
Mount Indicators,
Knock up some mounting hardware for the headlight,
Mount Headlight,
Front Wheel bearing swap,
Braided Brake lines mounting,
Calipers Mounted,
New Brake Fluid + Bleed,


The end is very much in sight
If I could get one good day on it, it would be finished but I'm struggling to see when that might be, it may be a case of getting the back done one night, the middle another and the front another/Saturday morning. My newest target is to get this finished 100% for Saturday afternoon so I can take it for a shakedown run, bring it back clean it up and ACF50 the hell out of it.

Went in to the garage on monday night with the aid of tom to allow me to remove the front wheel. i smashed and i bashed and i swore a lot more but eventually the bearing came round to my way of thinking.
I did that and mounted on the calipers along with brake lines.
That was it for this this week as I've Been a little stuck, decided to buy LED indicators mirrors so thought I'd get some LED front Indys too only problem been I forgot Christmas cripples the postal service.
All items arrived today so I've been sat in sorting all the wiring out so I can pop and play with various connectors on installation.

Pics to follow, oh and I fitted a tank protector pad high quality carbon... Ok cheap tat but it does a job lol.

[Geodude]

Pics on #82 not showing, or is it just my on its last legs laptop?

[joshwalker094]

Pics on #82 not showing for me either

[garynortheast]

And me....

[Geodude]

Haway Owenski some of us have nothing better to do

Oh I dunno why, I've done the same method of uploading every time. It'll be new year before I'm back at my works pc and able to restore the images.

I'll tapatalk host the next bunch of which most were acquired this weekend. (Only 4more jobs to do

So back at work and I've had another dabble with those images in post 82, let me know if they're ok now.

Also... wait for it... I rode the SV to work today *shocked gasps*
Yeah its road worthy once more! I'll post an update shortly, just as soon as I've sorted through the pics.

OK so where I'd left this before Christmas was that I'd just mounted all the handle bar hardware and clocks etc.
So with the bike looking like:


Popped on a tank pad as well, its proper carbon fibre (replica lol:


With time off work it meant I was able to get the grinder out with out worrying about disturbing either the little lads sleep or the neighbours so my attention switched back to the rear of the bike and the exhaust, finishing off that would complete the back end.

The exhaust was previously damaged and sucking a fair amount of air in through a hole/split.

Pic before starting:


Drilled out the rivots and pulled it all apart, Dismantled:


After the above pic I had to peel off the existing wadding, it had largely burnt/melted away due to the hole/split: