handguards on a sports bike.
Delivery’s came, so first thing was puting the new belt on the runner, just so I could get it out of the garage. Also came the parts for the english axle, right after I decided to not bother with it.
Ran the oily rag around it coz it’s sold, pity I insured it only got a few months out of it. Gotta plough on with the ypvs/xt hybrid need a two-stroke toy!
Sarges vn1500a (or vulcan 88) in all it’s glory.
Yep it looks worse up close. Found the approximate setting for the carbs (one post out there on the net!) no more then 138 main jet and the needle high on the 4th clip
Wanted to get these on for the winter.
There a bit small for wind protection and no use as crash protection
Also the taper insert thing was too small at 13mm, need one to fit an 18mm id, handle bars are confusing 7/8″ is 22mm so when they say to fit a 22mm bar do they mean 22mm od or id? a 22mm id would be massive.
Need a solid conection at the bar to hold the wind shield, rubber won’t do at 120mph.
Birdies haven a bath on the garage.
Also got the rear leaves of the jago half painted.
Sarge’s crack and big hole.
Didn’t do a very tidy job when welding up this pipe, I’m spoilt by the tig welder, still, got it done and neither pipe now rubs on the frame. Went for a test drive then, anything over half throttle and it stutters and misses, front brake didn’t work, head bearings were loose, rear tyre was flat and then to top it all off the throttle jammed one me. On the plus side the cooling system is probably okay, it’s obvious that the pipes have massively leaned out the carburation and that what’s causing it to run so hot.
So I’ll do sorting a jet kit and while the carbs are out I can get around the front head and find that oil leak. doesn’t sound so bad listed like that, wonder what other horrors await under that tank? (note to self, gottta get full pic of sarges vulcan)
Glad to be back in the garage, need to do more tomorrow. Waiting for the runners next new belt.
Course over, new bits arrived.
By my reckoning I came second in class at tig welding, only discovered that I was using 10amps more then everyone else 10mins before the exam started..
New bits, rear leaves, front springs, rear bush’s, u bolts and a pair of grp4 top spring seats, which look like they don’t fit my springs. Anyway rally design only charged 30 for the delivery quite happy with that, not a light or small package. threw a bit of black paint on the leaves but I ran out of paint (though I had more) and this monday I will be sorting sarges vulcan 1500 (more blasted welding) but straight after that the jago chassis will be going back onto it’s wheels.
blasted TIG flipping cold
Argh, im sick just when I don’t wanna be, course is so short I can’t really skip bits.
I had one of these when I was a kid. The kid that so expertly shortened this one, could barely talk, but he could handle a throttle all right 
Dammit, I got a job.
well not really a job, two weeks at fas learning to tig weld, crap timing, right where the jago project is at it’s lowest I have to stop working on it. Well just have to sort that shoping list.
Also saw a mythbusters special the other night they made a boat out of duck tape, so I though why not make a car body? it would be a similar design (but not shape) to bmw gina, and I could change it quite easyly. Just have to make the cage a bolt in affair so I can change the roof line.
English axle strip
Result of some one driving around with out a pingfukit, might get away with reusing it, plenty of meat left on the shoe.
Looks like I have a 4.441 diff! don’t think anyone would be cruel enough to put a 4.4 tag on a 3.9 diff do ya? Anyway will probably have to rebuild it with new wheel bearings and a nose seal.
Also got the gearbox off the pinto.
The amazing disappearing belt!
I can’t find any belt at all, none nadda ziltch. and the one i bought on ebay is second hand and only 20.6mm wide when it should be 22mm
Painted bottom of chassis, next stage is to put springs back onto it and do a dry build of the major parts (body engine) so I can see what bits need chopping and welding for example the engine will need different mounts and i need to mark out the bottom of the A post for the full cage.
Loads of work done,
But not many pics to show for it, first up got Niki’s bike out the way, sorted the chain, rear brake, idle, bent handlebars and wonky head lamp.
Then moved onto the jago.
Font end finally off, had to angle grind off all the bolts, crossmember is in a poor state, got an oval hole TCA hole on one side and the other seized.
Rear axle out and filipped the frame, probably gonna rain all day tomorrow so probably no painting.
Then had to answer a call to help from frosty, blasted French car had eaten it’s own gearbox (it would be awesome if it had eaten some other cars box, but i digress) so with a diagnosis of either a wrecked clutch or cwp, we got that box out in about an hour and a half and it looks like the teeth that held onto the cv had disappeared, new gearbox time!
speaking of eating gearbox’s, dinner time!
Jago’s front end off(ish)
Bit wrecked last two days tried to get something done today, but didn’t get far, some bit’s are quite stuck on.
