busa piston swap - work in progress

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

We should stop was well be giving Barwel and squirrel_hunter ideas

No need to worry about that, Squirrel has plenty of ideas about swing arms... And JMC is not one of them...

@Barwel, who's doing your cylinder work? And is that an original shock you have there?

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

How long did that take then?
Took me 2 hours with petrol to do one a wee while back

Not too long, took about an hour for the frame and the swing arm.

Got a litre bottle of 'Gunk' degreaser as needed to clean the engine bay and underside of the Disco for the MOT so just put some in a measuring jug and got a paint brush on the job. Cut the brustles a little shorter, but not too short or it'll just spray everywhere when you are brushing, but if too long you won't be able to work in it through the grease.

Brush it in and spray it off with a hose, pressure washers even better

Turned out really well.

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

No need to worry about that, Squirrel has plenty of ideas about swing arms... And JMC is not one of them...

@Barwel, who's doing your cylinder work? And is that an original shock you have there?

a place called engine power in Coventry they make boat engines and truck stuff

and its a gsxr 1000 k3 (i think) shock cant rember what year it is exactly lol

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

Not too long, took about an hour for the frame and the swing arm.

Got a litre bottle of 'Gunk' degreaser as needed to clean the engine bay and underside of the Disco for the MOT so just put some in a measuring jug and got a paint brush on the job. Cut the brustles a little shorter, but not too short or it'll just spray everywhere when you are brushing, but if too long you won't be able to work in it through the grease.

Brush it in and spray it off with a hose, pressure washers even better

Turned out really well.

Shame that the stuff rots rubber gloves, plastic veg trays and paint brushes (eventually).

Used it on the 2 rear calipers that needed a proper clean, refurbed them a treat.

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Shame that the stuff rots rubber gloves, plastic veg trays and paint brushes (eventually).

Store it in the tin then

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

Store it in the tin then

Touche

ohh f*ck just tried the drill out the exhaust stud with a drill extractor and it faild miserably so going to tap it or heli coil it

what do you think tap or coil ? ps what size should i tap it to if im going down that rout ? M10 ?

[DarrenSV650S]

When mine snapped someone more mechanically capable than me made up a block of metal which bolted on to the good bolt and was used as a guide so that the snapped stud could be drilled out. Then a tap was used to get out the last of the metal from the original threads. So don't go for a larger tap straight away

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

When mine snapped someone more mechanically capable than me made up a block of metal which bolted on to the good bolt and was used as a guide so that the snapped stud could be drilled out. Then a tap was used to get out the last of the metal from the original threads. So don't go for a larger tap straight away

think the threads are already gone, will check though

Timesert is far, far better than helicoil, the local machine shop helicoiled an exhaust stud on my car and in the drilling they nicked the oil way... I've tried everything I can think of and some ideas my mates came up with and it still weeps oil, a Timesert would have been oil tight with nothing more adventurous than thread lock.


http://www.timesert.co.uk/time-sert.php