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50 minutes ago, tortron said:

steel? weld it.

It is steel. Ideally I would like to weld/get it welded but I don’t have one and it’s probably cost prohibitive to get someone to do it for me?

Tempted to get a welder so maybe I could use this $30 air box as an excuse to get a $500+ welder :grin:

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So I’ve been up to fuck all with my bikes. When something gets to hard or doesn’t work I forget about it for a while. 
Next year my 550 turns 40! and that means cheap rego so I moved around the bikes to make the 550 more accessible and I’ve started bolting bits back on. 

I want to change the handle bars, I’ve got Hagon shocks for it and I need to rebuild a bunch of stuff to make it more reliable as a daily. 
 

Haven’t actually done much but tap out powder coated threads :evil:

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Slowly getting there with this thing. Will probably replace coils. 
I’ve got some genuine Suzuki parts to come, shims and a master cyl rebuild kit. 
 

Going with braided Hel lines up front and will swap the genuine fuel tap onto this from my pop up katana. 
 

Ive still got Hagon shocks to replace the shitty stock ones. I should rebuild forks at some point too.  

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I swapped tyres, tubes and brake shoes on the farm bike. 
cleaned carb again and reinstalled the standard pilot jet size. 
Still needs a few bits but she’s pretty much ready for the vin process. 

 

3.50 - 18 Golden Boy on the rear 

70/100 - 19 Kenda K760 front 

Whites tubes.

Surprised at how clean the front wheel was inside. 
Brake shoes looked like the original ones from the 70’s.

Quick vid of it running. 

 

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I got a 6v sla battery from jaycar for the tc125. Replaced the dash bulbs with LED. 
 

Today I done the valve shims on the 550. I somehow managed to mix up all my measurements when I pulled it down for sandblasting so I’ve still got one that’s out. Not by much tho. 
 

I’ll start the master cylinder rebuild when I get a day or so coming up and order the braided lines. Apart from trying to find a 4-1 or taking my bike to Cycleworks in Welly to get pipes made it’s pretty much done. 

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Despite how much I dick around with these old money pits this is the first master cylinder I’m rebuilding. I watched a YouTube video which showed taking the cir-clip out and the insides come out of the bore. 
In true oldschool fashion that didn’t work. Instead lots of crc, grazed knuckles and heat did! She was jammed in there real tight.
I’m still learning a lot and that’s the point isn’t it?

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