Cletus's other projects

[Vintage Grumble]

11 hours ago, cletus said:

it has should be 85-90hp, which is probably good enough 

Shit yeh, its probably at 45-50hp per ton now!

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Finished

Did the carb as well

Goes better, is a lot more responsive and definitely has more beans in the midrange of rpm 

According to the tuning book methods of seeing if its tuned right, it could probably do with next size up in the jets , which came with the carb so I'll try that, I could also put a afr gauge up it's bum to check 

Slowly getting through the list of improvements,  suspension is probably next on the list, as a little bit more ground clearance would be handy 

 

 

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V3 of exhaust baffles

The one that came in it was 2-1/4" louvered, but the louvers faced the wrong way for noise reduction 

Made previously mentioned 2" one with holes, steel wool that blew out  then wrapped in fiberglass header wrap, this survived well but was still a bit rowdy 

This one is 2" louvered , with them faced for noise reduction,  wrapped in stainless muffler packing wool, with a stainless mesh over the top of that 

 

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Had this for sale on trademe for ages with surprisingly little interest, I rode it to work a few times and decided it's too good to sell cheap just for the sake of getting rid of it 

 

So it gets to stay 

 

[Bearded Baldy]

Bahahahha that is the precursor to building shed number 3!

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This is a possibility that I have considered  

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Did a loop around coromandel on Saturday, was cold as, it started running a bit funky towards the end but half a turn on a couple of screws and it's better than ever

Got home after filling it up, noticed a slight weeping from the fuel tap,  gave it a tighten and it fell off and dumped fuel everywhere,  I managed to bung the hole with my finger and do some contortions to get my phone and call my mrs to come down to the garage to help drain the fuel into something other than the floor 

 

Anyway when I had the tank and petcock apart I'd fucked up putting it back together, it has a double ended left and right hand threaded nut and it was wound too far one way so the was very little thread holding it on, so an easy fix.

 

Also got some small saddlebags so I have somewhere to put stuff like puncture repair kit and a couple of spanners etc 

Rear tyre is pretty much smoked, so will need another one soon, haven't even done any skids 

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New tyre fitted 

While it's off, may as well tidy some stuff up 

Mucked around for ages deciding what to do with the wheel colour/finish   as it needs to tie in with whatever colour I end up painting the bike 

Anyway decided on this, the FXDX which is the sportier version of this bike had this wheel finish, black spokes with a machined face which I replicated with satin black and scotchbrite pads. The rear one I brush painted it to avoid paint on the faces but got it on there anyway, so the front one I sprayed with a gun and scraped /wiped with thinners the paint off the faces 

This took forever 

Front disc is on minimum thickness, one other mod I'd like to do is twin discs on the front so will worry about that later

 

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Wheels done, chin spoiler, black battery cover, painted the starter cover, fitted a direct solenoid button thing on the starter to stop the annoying "sounds like the battery is flat" noise when it's cold, new front pads