Post crash analysis
Apart from the cat scaring the shit outta me on a dark night, causing me to jerk my back into spasm and stopping my breathing again, I’ve been fine!
Christmas has come and gone and we’re now getting back to normal, haven’t done much too much ice and cold out there, went up to the garage to-day, 2″ thick sheet ice all up the road, The runner is light so at a crawl speed i made it fine.
Got my claim form sent off, the other guy has admitted liability so all that stands in my way of money is the efficiency of allianze. Almost positive that i want a gsxr1100w (watercooled 93-98). the clipons are above the top yoke so easily turned into a mile muncher, if i need the seat a little lower a gsxr750 tail piece and seat ought to fit (much nicer look too) 155bhp is probably way over the top, but hey throttle works both ways and I’ll still probably have the cbr6. Which is getting a fresh start with a bright red frame and a gunmetal grey engine and body work.
Managed to get the rear shocks on the jago, too damn frozen to do any more.
The whole point of going up to the garage today was to check if i had any delivery, and i did, yay! Still waiting for the ebay seller to get back to me about that servo saver, mailed him again today. Would have the meccano RC going now but for the saver saver.
Screwed
Well that’s meant to be a servo saver, 15 days i waited and all i got was a screw?! it’s the screw’s fault it fell out of the package!. waiting for the ebay seller M.K.Models to get back to me, fingers crossed.
37!
No broken bits this time not even any skin, extremely bruised back though, bit tough to breath, sitting on couch with a board behind my back to ease the pain.
ejit made an illegal u-turn across my lane, alwell least i took a big chunk of it.
bit cold the other day! clocks need setting straight they were always a bit bent looks a lot worse now with the screen to align them with.
125cc racer, note foldable pegs, large 90 tank, sticky rear tyre, can’t race this because its breaks the rules, but we might as well finish it now. Will bring it to watergrasshill to test it along side with my rxs100 probably next month since the race is feburary
It looks like a katana!
well i hope it does, some ejit will say it looks like a bmw
noticed my tak welds were good enough to support me hanging off the subframe, so i welded it a bit more and left it at that.
Sprayed it black
That too, cleanest it’s even been.
quick and dirty
was thinking reverse paint scheme, but that’s not gonna work, magnolia with black stripe all the way
bonus! clocks fit, might use em.
best looking angle, and the most important.
cbr6 get a new nose
Garage was a bit blocked up so i did some work outside.
Not too bad, can’t decide weather to shorten the nose or lower it, want it to have a hint of 80’s suzuki katana, might chop off the nose of old front mudguard.
tak welded together
Bit of adjustment todo, gonna be painted magnolia again, with a black stripe down the middle (or maybe another colour…..)
Jago axle
Got the axle off the jeep to weld up that tiny crack.
Struggled with the welder for a hour, trip blows if I turn it up to max (4) so at 3 I did the weld and it wasn’t pretty but it should do the job
Axle back in, lads at irishescortclub.com pointed out that a few vans didn’t have the spring pads either, there only there for comfort, so I chucked em. Not much comfort when you don’t have roof doors or a windscreen.
bout -1 this morning so after i knocked off the ice I used an old fourstar shirt to keep my arse from shattering, stayed in place great tucked under the strap, finally a use for seat straps!
ebay seller classicandmoderncarparts got back to me about the wheel cylinders, the sliding clips that hold the cylinder are no longer made, now i gotta find out if all 8″ drums use the same style cylinder or should i upgrade to a 9″ drum set.
The clips in question.
RC meccano
Feelin rusty sitting here waiting out the crap weather, needed to build something.
Suspension? we don’t need no stinkin suspension!.
needs a few bits:
hi-tec servo saver
better motor (locked diff needs power)
velco
gotta find ma fast battery’s (there red don’t know how i have missed ’em)
better get on the bay of e and sort it!
actually maybe i should clean up the room first swmbo will be back soon…
One more thing, nascar fiberglass bodies are cheap, bit long at 108″ wheelbase but might do the job over the jago chassis.
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.
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.
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.
