So Close!...
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Yes but my brother does all my cnc work, skimming heads, making custom parts etc also done me vapour blading on all my forks and casing etc here is some photos
Is so worth it and will smarten up your build! This is for my French import I’m slowly doing
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FML! 🫤
I wish it would stop being so very wet all the time! I work under a corrugated car port roof on the (cardboard covered) floor at my siss’s house. It really puts a ding into everything I want to do. I need to spray my frame so it doesn’t get ‘salt seasoned’ again this winter, it’s had a rough ‘couple of’…
Can’t do it, so why bother trying to make the motor look good? I’d settle for being able to do a deep clean & degrease on it at the moment…Sorry, I’m just pissed off @ tm
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Had a weird one a day ago, my bike was suddenly really noisy. It’s been making a ‘Blang, blang, blang!’ noise on startup for a while. I assumed it was just ‘4 stroking’ from the choke and damp cold conditions, fuel condensation in the chamber/barrel kinda stuff. I also thought it might be oil in the tailpipe clogging the wadding, so I unpopped the rivets and took it apart. The wadding was totally soaked with water! It was like a sanitary pad had been chucked in a swimming pool! 🫤 if you just touched it water pissed out of the fibres!
It’s weird cause the bikes always parked under cover. You’d think it would dry out when ridden as well!…Put new wadding in, which was awkward because only the ‘end cap’ of the silencer comes off. the hole-pierced tube is welded into the tailpipe. I ended up having to put the wadding in in bits and bobs to get it even. It sounds really nice and deep/quiet now, as well as actually running a lot better
…Still trying to get the casings cleaned up enough to put all the new bearings in. Bloody miserable weather! It makes for really slow going progress 🫤 …
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I can’t remember when I fitted the bigger front calliper to the rear, but it’s still going good with better ‘bite’ and hasn’t needed adjustment. I really thought I’d need the bigger master to make the most of it, but it doesn’t. Then I suppose much bigger bikes with twin front discs don’t use massive master cylinders? Or multi piston rear callipers even? I must of fuxed up the first time I installed it
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I found out that they are OK as long as you use a JIS (🦴
!!) screwdriver bit. Anything else chews out the + in them.
The OEM bolt & nuts are the best I’ve ever seen! I love the way you can re~tweak the lock nuts by adjusting the stainless tangs!…
———————————I forgot to text you! I’m sorry, I’ve spent the entire afternoon putting new bearings in my casings, which for me is a fuxin stressful job! Heat, chant&pray, tap! & repeat!
The balancer shaft bearings are the worst!
Job done though. Tomorrow is gearbox & crank in and ‘lump’ together, I hope!I’ve texted you my siss’s post code, and when you’re coming over to Poole way drop me a text and I’ll arrange shiznezz with you…
Or if you’re here tonight give me a shout…
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@SpookDog Ordered a set of titanium studs this morning for my ETX this morning
Listen, when it comes for OEM bonus points I'll admit, you can't beat that factory look. The issue I have, is none of my stuff is mint and the real art is doing a @scrimsmustang or @oldman build. The attention to detail for the OEM goodness is beyond anything I'll ever accomplish.
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I’m not an original’o’phobe myself, personally. I just think the OEM ones are better than aftermarket replacement ones. Not including titanium or stainless upgrades, which I would use if I weren’t so ‘broke a$$’
I do get people wanting originality on classic things, but I’ve always got the most out of doing my own thing. Cutting, welding/splicing and usually Matt black (cause of the broke ass thing
) with the lettering on the tyres picked out in white (child of the 70’s!)…PS! Do the clutch springs need upgrading with an Athena kit? Or is standard fine?…
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Got the bottom end pinned together, despite the wind which always blows crap about when I’m doing engine internals! I put up a beach umbrella and hid behind it.
It went together well, this is my third bottom end rebuild and I like to think I’ve improved a bit each time The new crank spins real easy, you could blow on it and spool it up!… -
I'm not going to lie, you use your bike a damn sight more than I use any of mine! I mostly cycle/run everywhere.
No you don't need clutch springs for the Athena 170 kit, so long as your clutch is healthy you should be fine. That said, I run the stiffer spring setup, along with the EBC Dirt clutch plates.
Been out on my DT today and it is running CRISP in this weather. Really hurtles along!
Yeah it's satisfying riding the bike with a motor you've put together.
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@SpookDog said in So Close!...:
I would use if I weren’t so ‘broke a$$’
I do get people wanting originality on classic things, but I’ve always got the most out of doing my own thing. Cutting, welding/splicing and usually Matt black (cause of the broke ass thing
) with the lettering on the tyres picked out in white (child of the 70’s!)…I understand you so much and I am in your "broke a$$" team as well (but 80s child).
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Didn’t get owt done today. Bike was running properly crisp tho! It was like the cold dense air was a nitrous hit for the old bee~atch! The bits & bobs motor I’ve got in at the moment has done me reall, really well considering the absolute state of it! I’m just coming up on 30,000miles since I got and built the bike & engine!…
All the hassles I’ve had and IT has never left me stranded on the side of the road. Bless!!…I’m quite looking forward to the new chapter in Its incarnation . I’m hoping it’ll run like a dream from here on out
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I still need a gudgeon pin for an Athena 170 piston. It’s 16mm x 56mm. The only one I can find is 16 x 57mm…
If anyone has put a new piston in their Athena kit and still has the old pin please let me know. I can’t do any more to my build till I get one
…Cheers Peeps!…
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@SpookDog said in So Close!...:
I still need a gudgeon pin for an Athena 170 piston. It’s 16mm x 56mm. The only one I can find is 16 x 57mm…
If anyone has put a new piston in their Athena kit and still has the old pin please let me know. I can’t do any more to my build till I get one
…Cheers Peeps!…
Why don't you take the 16x57 and machine off 0.5mm from each side?
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Well f@nk you very much! Wasteful Torrie!
…My plan B!
…I’ve got one ordered earlier today, once I found out my siss’s card worked. She’s a fuxin heroin when it comes to keeping me afloat!
It looks like there is enough room to fit the 57mm pin, I’m just not clued up on heat expansion & the like. I can just imagine it popping off a curclip when it comes up to temp! 🫤 …Edit: I forgot to ask about Athena replacement piston rings. Best place to get them? I understand that they’re specific to these kits as they’re 1mm thick/thin? Seems churlish not to fit new ones if they’re available and not astronomicaly priced …
