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Old 16-04-16, 08:21 PM   #771
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Put the Sv back together this afternoon, the reg/rec failed on it last year just before its mot, I replaced it with a good 2nd hand one but then never quite got round to putting it back together.
So a few stainless screws and bolts and it was back together with a few extra bits including a nice Corbin seat and rentec rack
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Old 16-04-16, 08:24 PM   #772
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A Honda C90 for the Nifty Fifty race. Stripping the engine down to find out why the kickstart feels like sludge & the engine isn't registering any compression.
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Old 16-04-16, 08:26 PM   #773
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I had an unwelcome electrical problem on Thursday, no headlights and all my indicators were locked in.

This morning I set about the relay and fuses but no luck, then I narrowed it down to the headlights rather than indicators. After removing the front of my 650S pointy it turned out to be the power connection to the front light assembly - a wee unplug and clean and back together all was fine.

Sadly after putting it all back together it broke again, same fault.

Took it all back to bits and moved the connected and rebuilt the front and yay, all fixed!

Next on the list, new sprockets and chain - any recommendations?
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Old 16-04-16, 08:27 PM   #774
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Bike is 90% back together after a complete winter strip down check and service. Got a bit carried away and now have racetec emus with modded dampers a new zx6r shock, gel battery, zx10 mid/rear exhaust with repacked and shortened can.
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Old 24-04-16, 09:34 PM   #775
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Opened up the sprocket cover to give it a clean and see why every time I clean the chain it's covered in sludge again straight away. As expected, it was a solid wall of sludge behind the sprocket cover filling the whole compartment. Enough to make me assume that none of the previous owners had ever removed it. Someone musy have done in the past though as the cable for the kick-stand switch had been re-routed... to go past the chain / sprocket actually in contanct with the chain and wearing the cable away!

A couple of hours of cleaning later and I managed to undo the switch and pass it through the compartment in the correct location and wrap the damaged outer cable area in electrical tape. Luckily hadn't worn through the inner wires yet. It must have been partly protected by all the sludge!
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Old 25-04-16, 05:46 PM   #776
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Recently the gear lever sheared off of one of my bikes when putting it into neutral. Turns out the bolt had snapped and the rest of it was stuck inside the gear shaft. Getting it out was a bit of a pain in the ass, but I finally did it. Just glad I didn't have to replace the gear shaft over such a simple (but annoying) problem.
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Old 25-04-16, 07:59 PM   #777
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Abba bike stand delivered! It's simply neat.

Ordered new stainless T clamps for the exhaust as the galvanised jubilee clips crumbled to rust once I unwrapped the heat guard tape.

Discovered a K&N air filter so ordered a cleaning kit

And a new chain and sprockets.

The rattle gun makes short work of rusty bolts - it could become my new favourite toy.
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Old 25-04-16, 08:05 PM   #778
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Refitted the battery after changing RR. As its a Motobatt, I used the spare terminals for Bibio's device, make the main terminals less cluttered.

Just got to wire in the USB plug into it now
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Old 26-04-16, 08:34 PM   #779
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Put the cover over my curvy and switched on the trickle charger. Hail and snow over the past few days! Far to cold and damp for riding ☺
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Old 27-04-16, 05:27 PM   #780
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Rear fairing panels put back after fitting the Mosfett RR. On doing up the bolt on the little cover, I found that one of the bolts holding the battery tray had fallen out, so replaced that with a washer under the bolt head.

All back together, i just need to get a multimeter and take some readings.
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