This evening's efforts...

The engine's back in and the primer's been laid, although it's still
reacting and looks like shit.

I'm away for the weekend and only have two evenings free before Chimay.

<fx: Countdown music>
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/guzziprogress/

 

This one:

http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/guzziprogress/photos/photo2.html

Reminds me of the school master from "The Wall" cartoon

http://www.allfloyd.com/images/the_wall/wall_from_rinrhall.jpg



--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

re-assembly is the reverse of this process

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

sweller says...

Somehow I get the feeling that what would take most of us about 3 weeks
to achieve you will no doubt manage in 2 evenings.

Or you could always take the 7R.

 

Heh, I know how you feel, i've been frantically SOB fettling for the
last 2 days (and the last 2 weekends)

So been out tonight after building 1 good fork leg out of the knackered
one on the running bike and the spare forks & seals the seller gave me.

.... to find someone had snapped off one of the mudguard bolts into a
blind hole into the fork bottom.

Bastard !!!!

Cue lots of swearing [1], plus gas and heat. Won't budge, so i've left
it soaking to tackle it again tomorrow.

Cheers

Paul.

[1] Clearly 'cos I should have checked the condition a bit more
carefully before i rebuilt it

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

If you need to borrow a LH drill bit, then figure out a size[1] and I
can bung one in the post to you (unless you're close enough to Hitchin
to collect it?). That'll shift the fucker.

[1] Go about 3 - 4mm smaller then the minor diameter of the thread

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Cool, thanks for the offer. All my LH drill bits are 6mm or more, this
bugger is about 4 to 5 mm diameter.

It should come out, I managed to get quite a bit of penetrating oil
past it tonight (whilst the lug was hot), the fall back plan is to go
back to the old leg as it's only the fork tube that needed changing
really.

Will see tomorrow whether it's faster to get the sheared bolt out than
to faff around swapping all the bits over.

... Again .. !

P.

 

Blimey.

All I have to do is get a new rear tyre on the CB750.

 

Has been considered but It's a bit of a non runner.

I want to get the front end up in the air without putting any weight or
load on the forks or yokes.

....neither do I want to take the exhaust off. It's all a bit tricky but
I've been too busy to do anything to it yet.

 

<snip>

I know it's not the best of bikes, but you can borrow the GSX for the
Chimay trip if you want? I'll not be using it that weekend so it's
available if you need it.

 

Many thanks for the offer but I will triumph in the face of adversity.
If not I may have the use of:

(a) Snorky.
(b) a Honda CX650 Eurosport.

Talk about an incentive to get the fucker fixed....

 

That's okay, so do we.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..75939.../...19198.../..30340.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR Clues: 24 Pts: 400 Miles: 1589

 

AAAAAAARGHHHHH. You *sodding* *fucking* *bastard*.

HTH

Paul.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Right, what address would you like it posting to? ;^)

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

No, no probs, it's had the kitchen sink thrown at it.

Plus gas, heat, dremeled a slot in the stub, it's chewed up 3 bits and
1 screwdriver. It's been drilled right through with a 2.5 mm bit but
then it snapped off [1] the 3 mm on the way through. I was just
drifting through the broken piece (the hole isn't completely blind)
when the drift broke off too.

Bollocks, i'll use the spare leg ;-)

This really needs a drill press and some patience now, but it's in
short supply ;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

[1] The HSS drills I got recently [i've just found] are really brittle
[2], not at all like the HSS steel drills I used to get in my youth.
[3]
[2] i.e a decent drill bit was cracking through the broken piece at a
rate of knots, but then I got worried about this one breaking off too.
[3] Back to the engineering supplier then, not Screwfix ..