Tuk tuk, new frame.
First up a test peice to help me guestimate the angle I need.
Angle turned out to be quite shallow, didn’t figure on the fact that the head stock its self is inclined back.
Quick break to do Frostys brakes and a cv joint boot on his fiesta diesel van. took a pic of this hanger because i wonder if i could fit these calipers to the escort mk2 legs.
And a tack weld later, next week we’ll be sorting two more bits to split into a Y back to a more solid part of the frame and then it’ll be final welding. Sort some brakes and some brake lights and it’s off for a spin 🙂
Taking the handle bars off a tuk tuk.
But first i had to fix nikis puncture.
tyre off the rim because he drove it here like that.
screwed! also the gearbox seal was leaking because a plastic bag got caught up in the chain and wrapped around the shaft, then melted through friction and worked its way into the seal. just took the plastic out it seems ok, not a problem if it isn’t because the it can be replaced with out splitting the cases.
Over to sarges and the tuk tuk is covered in fags. great.
Friction steering damper :) that’s not staying.
Took nearly an hour to do this, to get the cables out the inner had to come out first then the outer had to be pulled the other way, not an easy to work with design but very repairable. The electrics! built like home plugs you have to undo little brass screws and pull out the wires, madness, again great for easy fixing but pain in ass if you can’t remember where which wire went . I just chopped then all off this bike is either getting dash switches or a completely new set of handle bar off a normal moped, this means I’d have to sort a foot gear change and handle bars that had cable brakes. I’ll be able to adjust the brake level up and down then and it’ll be a million times less complicated and lighter,and proper dog leg levers. On the other hand the standard bar setup does work and its all aluminium which mean i  could polish it up..
Pedal box mystery
This weeks cute puppy is a little to excited to sit..
I’ve no idea what pedal box i have in the jago, it’s not an escort one…
EDIT: it’s a mk1 escort box, what the fuck? this does not bode well for the rest of the car..
m16 calliper rebuild.
Got the pins out and then discovered the pads were stuck in there too! nothing a hammer couldn’t fix
Seals plus the little rings to hold seals and the pads.
Yeah looks like the seals didn’t do there job, and it seems that the brake pipe thread is a bit botched on one side.. m16 rebuild stops here? four pot wilwoods on the cards?
Frosty came round in his excellent new van, just needed a small patch on the backbox, tomorrow he is helping me take metal and the welder out to sarges old house to do some work on the tuk tuk!
Jago Geep brakes
But first Kittens!
That ginger bastard kept clawing my back every time i turned 🙂
So to the shed, finally started the tear down of the front suspension of the jago.
the black ones are grp4 top spring mounts, far to big for mine which as you can see i only have one of.
The legs are different! first the rear leaves now this!, I think this one is a spurious replacement from back in the day, it’s quite good, how ever the older leg need a rebuild with fresh oil, research says i should go with 5wt or 10wt oil, no idea how much i actually need to put in yet.
M16 calipers, fuck there heavy, and quite rusted, if i can make em work for free, I’ll use them if not it’s splash the cash time and some wilwoods will appear, shouldn’t mind spending money on brakes.
Wanted the dust shields off, of course only one bolt out of six actually came out, rest were cut off.
Even different springs!, the right one is much longer even with a ring broken off! glad i bought a fresh set 😀
Niki’s dogs.
Niki said he needed a hand getting the head off his bike.
He mixed up the rocker cover with the head so there was allot to do really and not enough time to do it in, the coolant pipes leading into the head were stuck so we squished them.
Surprise a pristine engine, could have eaten dinner off it, this bodes well for the future.
Niki’s dog however would eat his dinner off your face, i got him to stop moving just long enough to take this photo with a chocolate bar. Be warned there will be more cute dogs on this blog because I’ve volunteered for the CSPCA, waves hand slowly “you want to give these doggies a home, even the snarling frothing one-eyed pit fighter” /jedi mind trick
Bloody tyres
Simplest thing to change some tyres, apart from the massive physical effort that is involved. The tyre hadn’t seated right so it had to come off, it was obvious the rim needed a wire brushing to clean the cack off, seated quite nicely after that but by then i had stabbed myself in the hand. I hate tyre changes.
Difficult part done, now onto the ignition problems.
Knowing what’s behind you.
A mirror is a useful thing sometimes, i got spoiled by the busa’s massively effective garda spotters.
So i had to put one one the cbr, can’t put one on the right side because i’d have to change the master cylinder, but however i do have this broken clutch perch lying around which got glued back together and left in the sun in a spare car and over the weekend hardened up quite nicely, splash of paint and it was ready.
Of course i don’t actually have a proper mirror, that would be breaking the rules if all my work accomplished something for once.
My e52 nokia is dead, won’t start, so i had to dig out the nokia 6233, where i found this pic of the insides of my new laptop, totally choked up with dust and loose metal bits rattling around, quick clean and i was away.
Hayabusa 0 cbr6 1
Went for a spin on the busa wednesday,hand nearly exploded all four fingers still hurt to move, no more busa riding it’s gotta go.
On the plus side the cbr6 is still good, added a bit of weld to the right passenger foot peg to level it out a bit, put a bit more oil in it (filter is still leaking a bit) and when i discovered last night that the lights were pointing way up (haven’t actually driven in the dark in a long time) i chopped a wedge of metal out of the headlamp bracket and re welded that too, just have to wait till it’s dark to test it out.
Also a while back i re-soldered my 8-cell stick battery pack to make it fit in the tt-01’s 6-cell space, haven’t actually played with it since but it should be a lot faster then the old 800mah 8-cell pack. That is of course providing that the solder will stay in place, don’t have a very powerful solder gun.
cr125 service
Not much done over the last week, was sick now i’m better but i still haven’t done much 🙂
This cr125 would cut out after a while, no spark, so changing the windings and while we at it new tyres and control levers a general clean and poke and it’ll be out the door eventually.
