Tuesday
didn’t do much,
tiny bit tired don’t you think? also fixed a brake light bulb and gave it a clean my mom is using it this weekend. it’s 0 degrees outside.
-11? ow, it’s -9 for me on the bike, i got ice on top of the box last night, 🙂 was tempted to make a snowball and throw it around the shop
Tuesday
Well left work on Saturday, got a card and some chocolates from Atilla, everyone sad to see me go, especially the manager as he had to hire 3 people to do my job. The last night was comical Hannan (the boss) kept fucking up the address’s and I was too busy clowning around to do much proper delivering. I give em a month, the phone bill will be astronomical from drivers calling customers to find out where there live and nobody will have a clue where that is anyway. New shop tonite I heard the manageress there is hard on incompetence, bit like I was back in GNIC (STRESS!) What do i care anyway Hannan got me this as a going away prezzie.
WTH, indeed.
Had to fix my cbr’s brakes, rhs caliper sticking this time. whipped out dust seals thew em in the bin, carefully took out the piston seals and cleaned behind them before putting them back.
Lots of air bubbles!
Had to take off caliper like this so that the bubbles have a direct path straight up to the master cylinder, after a while pumping the lever one crack of the bleed valve had me some working brakes!
Pictures Of Minors.
Morris minors of course, why what did you think i meant?
morris minor welded to a nissan 200sx, perfect place for a lexus v8. just realized this car is the only one without a roof chop 😀
Tuesday
Welded up the gaps in my wetal work today, engine comes in and out easly which is a relief. trew on some triflow/hammerite type paint. nearly all the mounts are done with now, the lower rear chain side mount is a bit iffy but that might need alot of reshaping to avoid the chain anyways so i’m gonna leave it for now. might try bargering ted into sorting out the electrics next week. might even start it…
V8!
I did not how ever bend the left front suspension back 2cms. no sir.
what the heck is half that stuff in there?, would love to weld a silvia floorpan to a minor (like cliffb) then stick this V8 in. best i probably stick to a 4age or 4afe for the lightweight win.
yeah I’m getting a minor, i could have a bigger car since it would be tax free, but I like lightweight, and the minor is affordable. and very lightweight.
Tuesday
all the mounts are in, need final welding.
With the big stuff nearly done, (the engine has to come out again to finish) started on the time consuming but easy stuff like cables.
here the rear brake setup is installed, but the engine sits to far out for the original brake pedal, so i cut it off, since ted has no right leg this is not really a problem, we can all use the hand brake.
Is that a little bent? can’t find the right clutch cable, i have one that fits the engine but does not reach the bar, it should because the throttle cable can and does reach. need to mod another cable to (probably another clutch cable) to be the brake cable, which will be installed where there front brake lever would normally be.
Winter..
really sucks.
Found this in my back garden, kawasaki 750, needs some head work but is all tidy otherwise. would make a comfy seated tourer for the gf and I.
installed the throttle and oil cables on the trike, too cold wet and sick to do much else. and this project is a shit idea.
nsr80 forks are about the right length, doubt i’ll install em.
Four stars new bikes. TGB’s taiwan golden bee’s. no really.
They needed new batterys after sitting in the warehouse for three months, had good GS batterys too.
Tuesday
well the trikes engine is in, took loads of photos, curseing bikepics.com lack of batch upload now.
started with nsr frame…
…and finished up with these
fiddled with engine placement all morning. hard to do with only one set of hands and a dark garage with a slopeing floor. one of the tires has no air so the trikes nowhere near level.
first a temporary adjustable front mount is tack welded in, it allow the engine to move back forth and sideways, but not twist.
i’ve used this piece of metal for years to align sprocket’s.
taken all these pics so I’m gonna use em!
spilt a lot of oil out of the gearbox when it was upside down, oil breather in built into the top rear engine mount.
first pic with body work on.
if you follow the links and zoom in you might find that the chain is out of alignment, i blame the poor light.
luckily i made some provisions to move the engine sideways with some spacers.
ugly bugger, ain’t it.
the tack welded temporay front mount.
both rear mounts there, top one will be finished next week, engine will have to come out again.
same deal this side, some strenghting may be added to bottom mounts.
can’t really see the chain aligment there. rear sprocket will be changed anyway and i doubt that the new one will be in exactly the same place.
totally wrecked after all that. most of the day was taken up makeing the first tempoary front bracket, plain sailing after that.
work, good bad and ugly
So now it seems im going to douglas now instead of wilton, sarge will be getting fatter and nad will just have to do without. Latest manger seems to be mad just like i was when i ran GNIC. Wonder what its like working for me?
Tuesday
Yep changeing my work day to tuesday. dont get too excited. Can get a bit more work done now that the girlfriend is going to college, not that i did a lot today..
My cbr’s chain was a little worn, brand new chain and oil change at 33000miles on this set of clocks.
This is the best way of get the new rivet link on to the chain. much better then bashing head against it like i did last time just before the Scotland trip.
Not much done to the atc, the big hole is all patched up and i put on the wheels, as i pushed it around (i was not makeing engine noises!) i noticed just how bad the understeer is. not gonna need that front brake for sure. better rear brake couldn’t hurt tho.
Next week will see me dicking around trying to get the new engine in, unless some thing else breaks.
Decided to get a cbr1000f, got three reasons,
1. good enough for two up sunday rideing.
2. when i kill it, the brake/front end can live on with the cbr6(plus some other bits).
3. the engine (provided i get a 89 onwards) will be bullet proof and under 1000cc perfect for a cheaply taxed lotus sevensque kit car. just add a turbo!
Sarge made my car really stinky. you think metal can’t retain a smell? you ain’t seen whats in sarges bin bags…..
