New Bike!

Well, it isn't, but it sure as hell feels like one.

No more wiggles. Suspension that suspends. Forks, instead of
marshmallows. A front brake that feels like a brake. The rear could do
with another bleed, tbh.

<self-satisfied grin>
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GLXR1500SEVRRSP/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| .....73063...../..17090.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

Woohoo!

Good init? That smug feeling, that you _know_ everything is done just right.

 

Steady on, old chap - I wouldn't go that far.

I didn't have *too* many bolts left over, either.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GLXR1500SEVRRSP/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| .....73063...../..17090.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

Old? Heh.. Ok, you know your bike a little better, and it still works.

 

Thank **** for that. Can we have some nmore aircraft/RBR related posts,
please?

Well done BTW.

 

Champ says...

Give it two weeks, he'll be back on stream.

 

No. It's a special tool jobbie. While the wheel was out and the shocks
were off, I gave it a good old wiggle in all directions: free movement
in the directions it should move, and no play whatsoever in directions
it shouldn't

I'd love to help, but I've none left.

Oh, goodie.

<sits down, grabs four weeks' supply of popcorn>

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GLXR1500SEVRRSP/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| .....73063...../..17090.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

It always gave my grandad some satisfaction that he could make Ford cars run
on less parts than Ford could. There were always a couple of bits left over.

 

tallbloke wrote

Cars were all made that way up until quite recently.

<sigh>

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be you know.

 

Mate at work once took his Cortina into Kwikfit for a new exhaust.

Took ages to get it off.

Turned out it was a Granada exhaust.

He'd owned the car from new.

To cap it all, he was told that Cortinas and Granadas weren't even
made in the same factory, at the time.
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GLXR1500SEVRRSP/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| .....73063...../..17090.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

Salad Dodger wrote

They were when I worked in Dagnam. 70/71ish.

 

Yesterday, my pug decided to stop idling. The moment the revs dropped to
tickover, it stalled (which made pulling up at junctions fun, balancing
all three pedals at the same time with only two feet, and parking up at
Heathrow's multi-storey last night was fun with the power steering
cutting out every time I got it wrong.)

The solution? To have the ECU reset.

30 quid to have my FI "rebooted" ? Sod progress, give me carbs. This
progress ain't all it's cracked up to be.

 

steve auvache says...

MK1 Granada, 1972 to 1977

 

It would have been later than that - he's even younger than me.

Hard to imagine, I know.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GLXR1500SEVRRSP/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| .....73063...../..17090.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

http://306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=14547&page=1

For next time.

 

Salad Dodger says...

Mk2 Granada, 1977 to 1985

 

Ta.

"Drive the car normally. After a certain amount of miles, the car will
have stored the new settings."

It'll be like teaching a child that '****' means 'please'.

 

What about the Granada Coupé? Sex on wheels!
Wasn't that made in Germany?

 

Salad Dodger says...

http://www.ford.granadaguild.btinternet.co.uk/albummk1/slides/25b.htm

Exactly the same as my old one

 

Patrick Evans wrote

You've clearly never spent an afternoon titting around with a set of points
trying to get an A-series to not pink under load. Give me budget
euro-engineering any day...