Yahweh tribute bike

[Good Times]

Looks good Wally. I'm diggin the grips. If they don't work just use them as pencil erasers.

[wally]

Success!!!

Managed to get some tires for pretty cheap.



And we have a rolling chassis! Sort of...

Powder coating messed me around with rear axle - so bad the axle refused to budge and I nearly resorted to taking an angle grinder to it!

But, it is in along with front end. Everything still needs to be tightened.

In the chaos/frustration/dispair I used rear wheel spacers in incorrect places, but I wil rectify that on Monday (public holiday for us! ).

New rear shocks:



Rebuilt front shocks and refurbished disc:



And frame:




And a dry run

[pete]

Awesome Wally, she's gonna be a hoot!

I can't quite make out the tyre brand and type... what are they?

[wally]

It is Horng Fotune.

We are quite limited in terms of tyre choice when it comes to unpopular sizes.

Only 1 place I could find. The other shops said they could try on Tuesday and maybe they can get something...

It will work for now.

[pete]

Interesting... never heard of them... haha

Oh well as long as they work for now you can always get something better on later right?

[wally]

Me neither, but seem OK - for now!

Got the rear wheel on and all the spacers in the correct places, but the right hand spacer was about 2.5cm too long. This seems odd, even with powdercoating it won't make that much of a difference.

I had an extra spacer, so I cut that one to size and it seems to do the trick.
Wheel is now nicely centred.

I need to find that small adjuster pin for the brake adjuster - my one is missing and the previous guys had some home-made clamp on there.



Fitted the front caliper:


And these "slash cut" superbike footpegs. Not sure if I like them or not.


That's it for now! Next job is cleaning the motor, but that will probably only happen in about 2 weeks time.

[pete]

Very nice Wally! If you can't find the bit for the rear brake, it shouldn't be hard to get one made as it's a very basic design.

Not sold on those pegs either but I'm sure you'll figure something out

[wally]

Yip, I tried to make it out of a piece of round bar, but my drill press is a bit weak to cope with it.

[Shwartz]

I gotta say, you've picked AWESOME colors.

The combination of seat, frame, grips, and the grey on the rims. Great combo.

[wally]

um, thanx Shwartz...

You can't really see it nicely on these pics, but it looks better in real life.

[wally]

Got all the paint stripped off yesterday. Took paint stripper and high pressure washer to it.






Cleaned it up with some liquid sugar soap afterwards. Now I can take sump off to clean out pickup screen, check stator, check valves, etc., etc...

And then paint!

Anybody have a handy tip to remove the engine emblem, please?


On a different note: I would love to wish everybody a blessed Christmas! May the Lord's peace and grace be upon you - especially to those celebrating (especially a first) Christmas after the loss of a loved one.

[pete]

Wally... when you say emblem, do you mean the ones on the stator cover and timing cover? If so, just take a lazy slide down the road... that will start pealing them off (just realised yesterday my stator cover emblem is a little loose after the off)...

I would imagine a razor blade or small flat blade would get you some leverage to start peeling them back.

Just a tip on the starter motor cover... it's not alloy so you want to hit that with some primer or something real quick before it starts getting surface rust. I had that problem with mine.

And Merry Christmas to you too

[wally]

Hi everybody! Hope you had a peaceful and blessed Christmas!

Was away for the week and the break was good.

Took off the sump this evening to clean oil pick up screen and the sump from all sludge. It came off pretty easily.




Did find this in the sump though...not sure if I should be worried or not?



Putting it all back together tomorrow.

[pete]

Nice work Wally, and if that's a rubber O ring then it shouldn't have done any damage to end up there hopefully... but a little odd to find one there for sure... it's an odd size that I don't recognise from the motor actually.

The intake O rings are larger than that I think and the O rings under the cylinders are much larger than that.

Or is that a circlip? If it's off one of the wrist pins from one of the pistons... but it looks a little too large for that, they're pretty small.

[wally]

Pete, it is a metal ring, but I am unsure where it could be from...

Cleaned up and installed the new front sprocket.



Another small job done!