Project - Snail

Ouch! What's going on in the second pic in the first post Plowsie? Has the frame been drilled and welded?

Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

Ouch! What's going on in the second pic in the first post Plowsie? Has the frame been drilled and welded?

Without looking at it face to face I couldn't tell you mate, i think that specific bracket type structure whatever it is, is where the tank bolts in and I think the holes could possibly be the guys locating method for the fairings IIRC, haven't had her fully dressed yet so cannot say

Woohoo, Friday night I went over to Crewe to see Mister C and nicked his engine out of his CBR from the CBR Graveyard Got it all tonked in on Saturday in most areas but one bolt was a bit of a rubbish to get back on, Speedplay comes round on Sunday and poof, straight in (sometimes you just need a better perspective ) so after that, managed to get back on carbs, airbox, chain all fitted back on, some of the electrickery and hoses were all over the place so had to sort them.

Now...

Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

Ouch! What's going on in the second pic in the first post Plowsie? Has the frame been drilled and welded?

After Speedplay had a look at these and pointed them out all over the place, he thinks they could be ways to save weight

Tonights plan - All calipers off and sorted (If I can find my Red Rubber Grease), then try and prize up the radiator.

Need to get hold of a bearing extractor apparently to get the rear wheel and front wheel bearings out, if I can get one of them, I shall try to do that aswell.

Need to get some header bolts (to hold the headers in) and some gaskets, and think I may need some of the hoses, and a fuel tap as some plank decided to snap the old one

[flymo]

After Speedplay had a look at these and pointed them out all over the place, he thinks they could be ways to save weight

Ha, this made me chuckle after just looking at the massive mountings that fasten the handlebars to the forks. Cant really call them 'clip-ons'

Its amazing just how far bike design has moved on when you look at the detail on a new CBR or R6.

Originally Posted by flymo

Ha, this made me chuckle after just looking at the massive mountings that fasten the handlebars to the forks. Cant really call them 'clip-ons'

Its amazing just how far bike design has moved on when you look at the detail on a new CBR or R6.

I think the ide of them are pretty cool, they are fairly light on the hand tubes I think, think the idea is, in an off you don't have to replace the whole jobbie, just the tubes. You'll know better than me mate....

It is one thing that I thought when going at it yesterday, some aspects of the modern day motorcycle are much more complex (more biased to computers), this is more hands on get in there and fix it. I took the old CBR I had apart only once but not to this depth, it's a learning trip really for me, with a bonus at the end of it.

[flymo]

Originally Posted by plowsie

in an off you don't have to replace the whole jobbie, just the tubes.

Yeah, from memory my CBR was the same, slightly newer and more rounded monting blocks but basically the same. Just seems a shock seeing them after the SV.

Right, last night, didn't get as far as the calipers, well I did get one off and the fluid out but nothing done with it as I couldn't get the pads out, till I noticed how they were held down. Now gotta get the caliper back on the bike and hope i can get the retaining cap and pin out (you gotta love Honda).

Ady come round, so I stopped that as hammers got involved and there were more important things to do. I took the carbs back off, routed the throttle cable, destroyed a rubbber carb clamp thingy but managed to repair it okay we think, will soon see. and got everything back in place and screwed on properly. Then after he went, got the downpipes on after some work, but by eck it was a task. Looked at all the wiring and thought, there is no reason this can't turn over now, but a flat battery. Starter button and nothing, okay we'll charge the battery.

Got to it this morning to see if she would turn over, after working out the actual configuration on how to start it..................................she ticked...and that was it, for as long as I held the starter button in...The ticking is coming from here




And a video of the tick, as long as I hold in the starter it will do that. I'm thinking maybe I have wired the starter motor up wrong...

[flymo]

Sounds like a dodgy solenoid or that the battery is knackered. Get some jump leads across to a car battery, leave the car engine off and give it a go.

If you get the same noise, turn the igniton on and short the solenoid with a spanner, should spin the starter motor without you needing to press the start button.

When you say the solenoid, is that the bit in the piccie?

Short the two connectors on that you mean?

[flymo]

Originally Posted by plowsie

When you say the solenoid, is that the bit in the piccie?

Short the two connectors on that you mean?

Yep, the thing that is ticking. There should be a thick black lead from the battery to the solenoid, then onwards to the positive terminal on the starter motor.

When you press the start button the solenoid acts as a relay and allows the high current to pass to the starter motor. If you make sure the ignition is switched on, shorting across those two big terminals on the solenoid should spin up the starter motor as if you had pressed the start button.

If the starter spins with your spanner 'key' then you likely have a dodgy solenoid or connection to it.

To test the starter itself just pass a jump lead from the positive battery terminal directly to the positive (there's probably only one as the case would be the earth) terminal on the starter. If its good and you have juice in the battery it will spin.