What have you tinkered with today?

[Adam Ef]

It has, and the bolts holding it in place were well and truly stuck. As is every other bolt / screw on it. It's definitely not been removed in a long time! Nothing is turning out to be a simple job on this bike.

[Adam Ef]

The DRZ battle continues. Everything apart again and attacking it with heat. Still no movement on the pivot bolt, but plenty of cracking sounds as it heated up. Need to leave it soaking with penetrating fluid again and back to it tomorrow. I did get some very seized up and stuck bearings out of the back wheel though and it only took about 4 hours. Cleaned up nicely and fresh bearings in there so it might be a bit easier pushing it around now. The bearings were so bad that it even affected trying to roll it about.

Also managed to get a throttle tube and cables from someone of FB who it turns out lives down the road from me and has loads of spares. Need a bit of luck like that with this project that was never meant to be a project.







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[dozi]

Quite some journey you are on!!

[Adam Ef]

$£%^$£^$£^£$^$% Yeeeeeeesss!

[dozi]

Look forward to seeing the bearings

[admin]

Well done. Persistence pays off.

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[Adam Ef]

Today I have mostly been doing learnining...

[admin]

I'd like to learn to weld. I'm not sure how often I'd need to use it though.

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[Craig380]

Originally Posted by admin

I'd like to learn to weld. I'm not sure how often I'd need to use it though.

Same here - but I suspect it's a bit like going into B&M Bargains. You never go in there with a list: you find out what you need to buy as you're going round

[Adam Ef]

Yep. If you want to really get into it and make the process easier there is a LOT of gear you can buy. I've just got a cheap second hand mid range mig welder from someone locally. All set up with wire etc. Then got cheap gloves, jacket (old german factory stock on ebay) and a decent enough mask. The mask is important.


I factored in the cost of getting my van fixed before MOT to justify a small spend on it. I have done brazing in the past too. Very different but has some basics that are similar. I managed to build a bicycle frame as part of a four day charity course I did a few years ago. All guided by experts, so not sure I could do it on my own. That sort of thing involves a lot more tooling and jigs etc too. Mig is cheap but a bit of an ugly finish. Brazing is a very nice finish but a very expensive setup. Especially if you need insurance for handling the gases.