Projects for over christmas

[dobbslc]

I was on a practice day at Mallory Park years ago on my 250 single when one came past me, CB500's don't half shift,








When James Toseland is riding it!

 

[lazybones51]

I was on a practice day at Mallory Park years ago on my 250 single when one came past me, CB500's don't half shift,


When James Toseland is riding it!

I'll be happy if I manage a track day without binning it

 

[dobbslc]

Those days are long gone for me now, I break just tripping over these days
I still have my FZR400RRSP though.

 

[DAPPH]

this is the enforced xmas project coming near to its conclusion after my last 3 days of pulling the old engine and moving everything over to the new one...

knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock.knock... yes rodney, can i help you? (sorry very old joke, couldn't resist...)

Took 5 mins to pull the sump and cradle off the old engine today. notwithstanding the piston that rattles in the bore, it has spun 2 MAIN bearings, not rod bearings. the rod bearing on number 1 has clearly been hammered into the crank and is ovaled and wider than the rod, however the rod bearings are in 'good' condition, but the middle two mains had chunks missing (not pictured, didn't take time to turf it out of the pot) and the rest are... rather worn.


remember this is a van with 60k miles showing on the odo (after what i suspect is a massive haircut) and this engine has been apart before and badly reassembled.

because the mains had spun, it had removed all the oil feed to at least those two bearings and so i think this van was mere 10's of miles from seizing and trashing the crank.


however it IS rebuildable, and it might get rebuilt.... depending if i can get the head fixed.

In my apprentice ship days the big fixed bearings & caps for them were called main journal bearings or main journal shell bearings , the con rod bearings were either con rod big end bearings or little end conrod bearings .

How things change over 60 years .. shocks were what you got off HT leads & shock absorbers were exactly that . Tracking was electrical arching along the inside or outside of the distributor cap .

Steering geometry was toe in & toe out on turns , castor & camber angles and the Ackerman steering principle angle , things were adjusted with the track rod . A decent chassis drop test with thin taut chalked line on flat floated concrete usually told you if the bent chassis was repairable .

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Those days are long gone for me now, I break just tripping over these days
I still have my FZR400RRSP though.

Lucky you.
I break watching humans on TV tripping over.

 

[DAPPH]

Wind , limbs , into smiles or all three Ardy

 

[Beeezer]

Couldn't find anwhere suitable for this but I thought perhaps a thread by @roofman was appropriate. This guy obviously had this as his Christmas project but I couldn't believe my eyes and had to leave before he got back up there, not good for me:

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He was using the gutter as a support for the catladder I was absolutely horrified.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Wind , limbs , into smiles or all three Ardy

Two out of three

 

[GRW]

I was on a practice day at Mallory Park years ago on my 250 single when one came past me, CB500's don't half shift,








When James Toseland is riding it!

I did about 3 track days at Pembrey in the 90's. Two of them on my 1982 Kawasaki GT750 shaftie tourer.
I knew the guys on Blades etc would point & snigger, so I played on it further by bungee-ing a pair of bright yellow council-style w-proof overtrousers onto the rear rack.
Luckily, Pembrey is short & twisty, so the huge power, speed, weight, handling wasn't as big a handicap as it would be on a faster circuit with longer straights - so ridden like a man possessed, with total disregard for an ageing ole bus & hanging off like a mental baboon (& with 150% of the max air pressure in the rear shocks), the ole girl boogied around like a champ (& way faster than anyone thought it would).
I admit it frightened some of the other riders though. It'd gallop through corners weaving furiously (I knew it never actually went terminal..... but they didn't!) - the rear plate making mad circles, & the pegs, sidestand bracket (on lefts), & the exhaust headers (on rights) showering sparks all over the place.
Huge fun! (I couldn't lose - if I was slow... well it was a GT750 on a track! If I wasn't slow - instant kudos!..... just as long as I didn't throw it into the tyre wall)

 

[dobbslc]

I wish I could have seen that!


Pembrey is a great little track but so far from me I thought I'd driven to Ireland by mistake
I got an invite to a Performance Bike two stroke frenzy there 20 odd years ago, I took my Cagiva Mito / CR250 engined beast and had the best time harassing one of the writers on the Aprillia RS300 they built. Yes 300cc!
It was even sunny

 

[GRW]

I wish I could have seen that!


Pembrey is a great little track but so far from me I thought I'd driven to Ireland by mistake
I got an invite to a Performance Bike two stroke frenzy there 20 odd years ago, I took my Cagiva Mito / CR250 engined beast and had the best time harassing one of the writers on the Aprillia RS300 they built. Yes 300cc!
It was even sunny

Yes, Pembrey is a fun circuit - 1.5miles & quite demanding - but its twisty nature & with even the faster corners being challenging - it's a good place if you've a horsepower deficit.
I got to a time that I felt was respectable & good enough for maybe top-5 at a club level in the 600 class (I was on a 13yo FZ750 on cross-plies & about 45-50hp down on a good proddie 600 at the time) & quicker than Tiff Needell had managed in a Porsche Boxster test - so I was (briefly) chuffed.
I say briefly, cos not that long after, a certain Troy Bayliss tested there on a BSB GSE Ducati.... & in slightly damp conditions smashed in a lap that'd have seen him on my tail to lap me on my FZ in something like 7 laps!
Down to earth with a bump

 

[Brad93]

I've been pretty busy with other stuff so this didn't get finished over christmas.

Stripped more paint, pulled off the bowl raising mech, pulled the planetary which i repainted and replaced bearings/seals.

 

[Bullet2012]

I didn't quite get it finished but it's on the way
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Found you an enemy tank !

 

[Mikes]

In my quest to tidy-up and find the workshop floor over the break, I found a bar bender lurking under some shelves. Think it must be a Christmas Miracle!

 

[DAPPH]

I've been pretty busy with other stuff so this didn't get finished over christmas.

Stripped more paint, pulled off the bowl raising mech, pulled the planetary which i repainted and replaced bearings/seals.

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The internal expanding bearing remover reminds me of a steel expanding Rawl plug , will try to remember that for future things as I have several differetn sizes .

 

[GRW]

Another small step for the camper conversion...

 

[DAPPH]

I have had a pile of dismantled wet pallet wood , stacked on spills waiting for it to dry . To cut up on an 82 tooth bench saw so they can be smooth sawn on the thin edges to make wider wood ready for sawing into the correct sizes , wasting as little wood as possible for a range of bird nesting boxes by the end of January 24
Finally got time to do the smooth edge fine blade cutting on a fair bit of the planks this afternoon . Hope to make the biscuit joints some time tomorrow .

 

[Brad93]

The internal expanding bearing remover reminds me of a steel expanding Rawl plug , will try to remember that for future things as I have several differetn sizes .

yeah similar. it's just the opposite of an ER collet really

 

[DAPPH]

Didn't get any biscuit jointing done , made super chicken & veg soup instead , ready for a cool Saturday afternoon cutting wood down at Fizzy's unit . Yep t'was cool .. soup very much welcomed . Following Fizzy's laser cutting bench build closely ..learning a lot .
Got my latest toy though . I was intending to hang seven new to me doors in the bungalow over Crimbo .

When as you do ..... I spotted a simple alu / steel jig on TEMU that clamps on th door so you can precisely route out the hinge recesses and the mortice / bolt holes , this led to me being given a square cutting chisel for my birthday ( 21 Dec ) and a nifty router guide ring to fit the smallest of the routers I possess.
Seems Crimbo has finally caught up with me and the doors are awaiting some action instead of being stored behind the settee in the lounge ( Where else can you store seven doors ?? )

 

[angellonewolf]

Didn't get any biscuit jointing done , made super chicken & veg soup instead , ready for a cool Saturday afternoon cutting wood down at Fizzy's unit . Yep t'was cool .. soup very much welcomed . Following Fizzy's laser cutting bench build closely ..learning a lot .
Got my latest toy though . I was intending to hang seven new to me doors in the bungalow over Crimbo .

When as you do ..... I spotted a simple alu / steel jig on TEMU that clamps on th door so you can precisely route out the hinge recesses and the mortice / bolt holes , this led to me being given a square cutting chisel for my birthday ( 21 Dec ) and a nifty router guide ring to fit the smallest of the routers I possess.
Seems Crimbo has finally caught up with me and the doors are awaiting some action instead of being stored behind the settee in the lounge ( Where else can you store seven doors ?? )

are you not supposed to lay doors flat before fitting or they might bow ?