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?!
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.
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.
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.
stuff done today.
Got that bultaco that was in the garage for a while started, do these people not know that is there is too much oil in the premix the fuel leans out and that’s nearly as bad as not have enough oil? he only wants €600 for it, was tempted till I realised it’s righthand gearchange.
New pads for the runnner 180, gotta sell it off now.
New oil and filter for the poor suffering cbr6, really needs a rear tyre now.39500miles on the clock now, which makes its about 75000miles?
50mm spring on the left and a 60mm spring on the right. whew that’s cleared up a lot of my worries about this back end being a mk1,I now know for certain its a mk2, sweet.
turned it around by lifted it up with one hand and spinning it around like a top. over my head. whilst keeping the crocodiles back with a whip and a chair. with my third arm.
you can see it clearer now that the shite on the floor is gone.
Another new bit needed, think this was part of the reason why the spring broke.
Tub off and Paint on.
Fromt this angle its good.
Not so from this angle, too plain.
Needs that front end from the dr750, or the rear shortened.
Tub off!
Must get all the wood out and plan ahead for the new floor.
50mm rear leafs and a big bar that pulls both drum for the hand brake points to a mk1 rear end? i could be quite wrong tho.
What gearbox do we have? 4 speed anyway.
OL25A2?
I think that was meant to be a freeze plug..
Whole thing is quite solid, but then again it would take a lot of punishment to actually rust steel this thick.
Hope the starter motor is okay on that side, crossflow is a bit different then the pinto.
CBR600 magnolia
Decided that there was too much blank magnolia on the tank, so in that accidental red/black/magnolia scheme that occured on the back of the bike, I did this to it.
Masking and first coat
Near the end there, bit more petrol resistant lacquer needed.
Threw this back together,while waiting for paint to dry, just to wheel it down the back while I find parts
Bolted back together, left it in a warm place overnight, paint should be hard enough tomorrow. Masking tape bleed a bit but I’m happy, this bike will never look good up close.
Jago jeep/geep/sandero (think I’ll come up with my own name for it) needs the roll bar chopped off, which means a complete blank start for the new cage/chassis.
Gilera runner 180, Gearbox Cover
Knocked this up 30mins, only a piece of bent aluminium plate, took me 20mins just to find the right bolts, drilled the first hole then with the screw in it to center the compass I scratched out an arc where the second hole should be (set the compass to the width by installing both bolts), same again for the third hole but with two arcs to get it really accurate.
Needs to be a bit more cut down.
Gilera Runer 180, kickstart mod
Before:
After:
Previously I had chopped the center stand to allow me to start the bike with out having to haul it up onto the stand, and now that I’m using the kick start more I notice that it’s awkward, I’d like it closer to me while I stand there twisting the throttle and kicking, can’t do that so I chopped and welded it further around the shaft bringing it a bit higher and closer, not a bad job I’d say. we’ll see if it make a massive difference in the morning. Also I painted it black you may notice.
The auto choke, I noticed how much more crisp the throttle seems off the bottom end now, I can only summarize that it came on every time the bike was at idle, you see the battery I have is quite shagged and I’m to tight to buy a new one, so the voltage at idle is not high enough to turn the auto choke off, Haven’t used a tank of petrol yet hope I can get 160k out of a tank now.
