15×9 weller wheel
Been busy away from garage and abit sick, so nothing done really.
Just gave it a quick coat of paint, will paint the others with the old tyres on, so that when the new ones are on the jobs done. 195/50 tyres are going on should suit the jago with a little suspension drop.
C90 racer, I would of went for the super charger but now the race team is full and there’s no room for my idea’s.
Sarges vulcan 1500c (it’s not an a anymore)
Got the jets in, they were the wrong ones, but they’ll do for now, so i got on with putting the rest of the bike together.
First obstacle, that can’t have helped the jetting
It was either shot or the man who tightened this deserves to be shot.
A test ride was needed either way, so with only half an airbox and thus half the air going into the engine, off I went, so damn fast I broke the speedo lol. duck tape and a zip was used to temporarily block the dodgy air filter.
After I sorted the head bearings (front tyres flat too) I popped off the exhaust to see if we could get the rattly inner baffles out, no joy, did discover more cracks which I welded up quite well actually and then as we were putting the pipe back on noticed that the jaw thing for the rear brake was nearly off its spline.
Front brake worn to metal
Front brake needed a bleeding (they didn’t work!)
Rear brake barely hanging in there.
Whatever about the crap exhaust piss poor jetting falling off pegs loose head bearing and flat tyres, brakes are fairly important like?!
Progress! Jago Geep
Stuff came from the man from donegal, also just got news sarge vulcan jets turned up this morning!
GT webber manifold
The webber it’s self, it’s got one of those dual stage throttle that I hate.
Had an idea, teds always complaining about his 195/50/15 tyres being to hard/low profile, so for his birthday (which i only found out about yesterday) I’ll get him some bigger tyres and I’ll get the old ones!
The tyre is too big to fit in the vice so it had to come off the other way. I smell of burnt rubber now.
9″ wide rim, 230mm wide from calculation its got a negative offset of 37.5mm, I have no idea how bad it’s gonna handle.
Will 195mm tyres fit on a 230mm rim? don’t know but I’m going to try to get the tyre shop to do it for me coz I ain’t getting the rest of those tyres off, absolute pita.
I said I was going to use 13″ wheels in the last post, but since I can manage low profile tyre’s for these 15″ I’ll try it, anyway I found out that hilux axles are about 59kg and much more available then atlas axles, perfect compromise between weight and durability.
Crossflow and Pinto dizzys
The jagos status at the mo, gonna keep the english axle but swap it for a good 3.54 and run it with 13″ wheels, use the crossflow for as long as possible then if i switch to bike power the 3.54 ought to suit it fine. The full cage idea is gonna wait, just a lowered half cage right now, with the small wheels it much less likely for me to flip it. Low low seats and maybe a floor mounted pedal box, Locost style windscreen would fit lovely on the shuttle, roof and doors can wait.
Pinto distributor cap on the crossflow, amazed it fit, was all set to find some megajolt stuff (still might if the engine is good) and a 36-1 trigger wheel, the crossflows cranks pulley is a bit bent and it needs an alternator a v belt and a oil cap, not much then. oil, oil filter, fan is broken, have a carb and inlet on the way in the post, need an air filter and a gasket, what else?
Pinto dizzy, will actually measure up the difference some other day.
Escort suspension painted
Bough a tin of rustoleum matt black paint, I quite like it, should go well with the gloss red.
Leaves are painted twice., Sarges bike got new front pads, no sign of the jets yet BUT I had a look at a manual for ‘em and it seems the b series vulcan had 130/132 jets! maybe those 127′s won’t be enough.
Bush’s were a piece of piss to put together, had to use red rubber grease, which I hope won’t eat anything as I had no graphite.
Speakers mounted via duck tape, much tidier. thinking of doing the laptop as well, so it will match my wallet and phone.
More bits painted, much hammering was needed of the saddle that was used on the 50mm spring, think they tried to squash fit it.
Sarges vn1500a
Not supposed to be like that.. also the wireing for the fan is worn through and the main harness, a water hose has nealy been holed and the fuel filter was on the wrong way around. haven’t even started yet.
All the bits scooped out, the airbox is made of Seven pieces! Oil leak seem to be comeing from the lower rocker cover, engine out job, not doing it, Sarge has had 3 week to come up with the money to pay for the work, does he have any? fuck no. Will i do lots of hard work for no money? fuck no.
Carbs out, jets ordered, it did have 112 front jet and a 115 back so I’m going to try a 125 front and a 127 rear, mostly coz that all I could find, not because there right.
