Jennifer's Makeover

[psyguy]

the rear brake has an issue with the one bleed nipple not closing off and allowing air in, dunno what I am going to do there?

Do you know where the problem is... the nipple seat in the caliper or the threads or...?

Maybe easiest to clean up the threads and use teflon tape?

If that doesn't sort it then you may need to have the bleed nipple seat re-machined or go with the next size up nipple.

[Flyboy]

Psy, I had planned to try some teflon tape on it this weekend and see if it seals it up, if not, its me, the caliper and the Prattley Steel (JB weld for the 'muricans )
Like hell I am pulling the rear end apart again and stripping the caliper again.

[Flyboy]

JENNIFER LIVES

[cowboyup3371]

YAHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Highway_Glider]

What took so long?



Never doubted it for a second.

[dorkburger]

Sweeeeeeet! Im happy for you.

[ShadowFocus603]

Absolutely phenomenal Flyboy. Your build was one of the first i saw when I signed up here, along with Penelope. I'm so happy for you. Congrats.

[Highway_Glider]

I just looked at the first page of the build. What a difference.

She sound strong. Nice throaty voice.

[Nessism]

Congratulations Stan! Good feeling to hear it run eh? Your relationship with that bike stands alone among us here! And now it can continue outside the garage once again.

[Flyboy]

Thanks guys, Ed, I believe Pete's love affair with his 450 was probably the most epic around here, and as I recall this all started by you selling me a stator cover to fix a broken stator.

So this morning was off to the Classic Motorcycle Club get together, to dig for parts , came out empty handed unfortunately, bought what I thought was a tacho cable, turned out to be a speedo cable....damn, oh well, now I have a spare one.
So I guess a trip to bike hospital, our local bike breakers, is on the cards sometime this week.

With the realisation slowly sinking in that all the major work is done and dusted and I am really on the home stretch, today was spent tinkering, taking care of those million and one little things that also seem left to do.
The only real jobs left to do are to do the brakes, fab fairing brackets and mount the fairing and fab a rear shock mount and fit the shock, then it is air in the tires and a road test.
Fired her up to set carbs and check stator output, happy to say that she is running a healthy 13.5V at idle, ran her up to operating temperature and not a drop of oil leak in sight, I am a happy camper, however she did run out of gas before I got around to setting the idle screws. Oh, after standing the night, with choke applied and no throttle, she fired into a healthy idle within a second of pushing the starter button from ice cold, I am a very happy camper.
Watch this space for the road test.

[chuck hahn]

Stan..if the tape or refreshing the seat down the bleeder hole all fails, I have a full body in the bin you can have if need be. Gonna have to use your guts but the body itself is in good shape. Will of curse need a repaint. If you have any packages on the way from Dale or anyone else I can send it to them to be included.

Pitting in the seat can cause leakage. Wonder if a drill bit and some gentle hand turning would freshen the seat a bit???

[rustybronco]

Watching this space for a bug filled grin!

[Flyboy]

Many thanks Chuck, I had a look at it yesterday again, calliper is fine, no leaks there any more, a bit of PTFE tape saw to that, seems the problem is in the master cylinder, so that will come off.....again, next weekend.

[Flyboy]

Watching this space for a bug filled grin!

You, sir, will be the first to get it, hot off the press.

[chuck hahn]

fair enough...If its FUBAR I will dig and see if I have a rear around...no promises though.