Sparkly Sparks
Fixed up the wiring loom, removed the indicators and hot wired the ignition, got spark! gotta work and stuff for next couple of days so the first start will be on monday, right after i score some cheap or even second hand oil. (much flushing to do)
Would love to have this dt400 on the road instead,
Nope. if the engine was less smashed this would make a awesome motard, with rg125 suspension/wheels. Next time.
Rob the front mudguard, almost a perfect fit for the xl. so nice i nearly got caught up in cleaning it but quickly stopped myself. will make a bracket after the engine rattles to life.
moloch now has three cores and an awesome profile shot:
Zero titles given.
Xl’s carb is clean,all thats left before i attempt to start it is one wire and some engine oil.
Took the thicker bros 400 top tee piece to use with the cbr,
Gave it a lick of paint, this will fit on my cbr and give me Mx bars. where to attach them is a whole other problem.
XL250k3: beat it into shape
Air filter is doing the business, not.
all four tappet lock nuts are there, nothing looks too bad in there.
Points, well they are there at least.
Spent the rest of the day beating the clutch arm, got it all in good condition now, the roller bearing at the top is seized and missing a few rollers, so that’ll have to be replaced, but it’s good enough now for a test spin. Also beat the bent arm that’s supposed to fit on the star wheel, good enough for a test spin. only took one whack too, skills 🙂
The camchain tensioner lock up set-up is banjaxed, the threads all mullered, so i had to make something to actually lock the guide. when i replace the guides (have to take the flywheel off) i can take the tensioner out and with that out i can fix the threads. hog it out to M8. it’ll leak a bit of oil but no worries.
Niki came over and we span over the bros for 5 minutes on the land rovers battery, it started! good honda. engines fooked,but lack of oil and 100mph will do that to anything. scrapping it, might try to sell it whole to a breakers but if other people need stuff i’d break it myself and give niki the money.
XL250k3
So, I got nice fat work bonus, but i still couldn’t find any yzf750 forks and the one monkey bike i could find online, the seller wasn’t answering, so i had a choice:
Or this one:
Much humping later, and using the three wheeled berg for a cart, got it up to the garage and removed the linings from the shoes.( must put a l/m engine in that berg)
Pump the tyres, polish with a bit of wd40 and blast off all the dead leaves:
And so, on to everything that is wrong with it, or why it ended up being left behind in our ditch when the owner went back to germany:
Positive gear-changes? no.
Camchain, the only bit i need to tell you here is that the honda setup for locking the camchain guide blades can lock them and be oil tight. the single bolt the previous owner put in there could only do one of those thing, and i don’t see any oil stains outside on the casing.
This tells you a lot about whats going to be wrong inside this engine.
Dreaded seized clutch push rod, magnesium and steel don’t mix. currently soaking in GT86.
Oil filer covered in metal bits and cheap rubber insta-gasket crap.
Rear sprocket is totally foooked, rear shocks are shots, exhaust has nice fist sized hole in it, bright metal dust and a lock-nut from the tappets in the sump, one (only one!) fork seal leaking. and some tape around the inlet manifold. still more horrors to find.
Should have held on for that chinese monkey bike.
Front bearings
So they died again, lasted the summer, something maybe a bit worn out in the front end.
So the only thing to do is get another bike, off to the scrappy now,
stuff bought counts as work right?
So moloch got an update, just hardware, all the 6volt internal fans became external fans and the cpu got a normal 60mm, that happened to be three times deeper then the stock amd fan. only a two wire as well so i don’t know what speed its going at. got it from a sky+ box, nice and quite too 🙂
Managed to buy some land rover stuff, not a whole chassis, but for the bobs i got plenty, pair of defender axles, rears a salisbury!
The 109’s drums should fit, need a half shaft as well.
A caliper and a railko bush needed on the front, plus a load of brackets hacked off.
Whats this bit called anyway?
better door, only needs one patch and a pretty rare early series 3 bonnet, looks similar to a series 2 bonnet.
Made another patch for the chassis, but ran out of time to weld it in, coz sarge needed his front end rebuilt 🙂
too hot to do stuff
Added a wiki to moloch this morning, and mario combat, because that game is crack.
today was a hospital day today so didn’t get much, might have found some forks for the yzf, early non adjustable’s but it will get it on the road. then visited a man in carrig, got a pair of 110 defender axles (rear is a salisbury!) , radiator, door, front slam panel/ rad housing and a early series 3 bonnet plus a few brake bits and what nots. picking that up next week.
have a laugh at the poxy engineering this this thing:
On your back covered in filth
So Yesterday i said i’d go off welding, Disappointed to find out i can’t weld under water.
Got out there today, got some nice pics too.
Galvanised tinfoil is not proper repair
Patch i did the other day,
New patch, if you call about quarter of the chassis a patch..
The crack from the inside
And outside
This bit, is not so pretty…
Found a local guy selling some LR bits, gonna see him next thursday, probably everything he has will be better then mine.
Did computer stuff
Got a asus Eee pc, x101H since it’s TDP is only 8.5w this will be the my new owncloud server, how ever it need a big ass 2.5″ hard drive, or some 22pin sata extender cables don’t know which way to jump just yet. Probably gonna mount it in side Moloch with the screen facing outside and multitail/apapchetop running
Stuff done today:
done a sweet html front page for Moloch
done some php
reinstalled OS (don’t mix testing and backports!) got owncloud 6, resynced the lot with SQLite. All on stable release again.
Configured Samba
Setup cron jobs
recent lighting storm affected Moloch cr232 battery and bios, reset the lot.
Ugly pic of an ugly box, but its the beautiful 1’s and 0’s on the inside that counts, 🙂 ?
How did i get an Eee pc? free from the Cork FoneSat people, my sony phone was such a bugger to fix they felt sorry for me and gave me a box of bits in the shape of a broken Eee pc, sweet as fuck. As a bonus the phone works as well.
Right thats the morning done, off to the land rover welding!
cub racer
Only one pic today, the sony sp is still in the shop they can’t fix it so i’m getting it back broken. I’m an idiot for buying a sony.
things done today, two patchs for the land rover, a dolomite 1500 turned up as a spares car for the Sprint, An SRAD 600 is dumping the coolant into the sump so we got some trouble shooting done on the oil pump and the oil cooler.
Best thing done today, got the racer 90 ready for road, made a bracket for some random coil and chucked it on.
Bit of petrol and away she went! took off race plates and stickers next, on the road that stuff will just get attention. Not sure if super shocks will get through scrutineering so i’ll try to find something less conspicuous.
Raise the compression, jet up a little, go win some races!
