Suzy bares all!!

Originally Posted by 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 now

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

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

[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

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

oh heres Chris picking up some bits last week mad git

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



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---



wash it all off and dry it for this


then autosol to this

[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.