anglia4 Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 I’ve just opened it all back up, peened the nut edge, reassembled. Fluids done. Also new clutch cable, chain and sprockets, mounted the extra fuel tank, made a mount for a kick stand. She’s pretty good to go bar the new cdi. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 You can probably rob the CDI off mine if you like, I won't be using it any time soon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 Hopefully won’t need to, tracking says mine is in Auckland now. Fingers crossed! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 Because nothing is easy... The CDI arrived on Monday, and upon attempting to fit, I discovered it had all the wrong plugs and not enough wires... I managed to dig out a wiring diagram for an NSR 50, which aligned with most of what is on my bike, but didn't show the extra wire I had, and didn't include any of the gear indicator/speed limiter wiring. I'll put some info down here, incase someone else is scouring the internet for instructions like I was. I haven't got a photo, but my CDI had a roundy 4-pin plug, a roundy 2-pin plug and a squarey 6-pin plug. The 6-pin goes to the gear selector. The new CDI is a CF POSH 225064 and looks like this: None of the plugs fit together, so you need to cut them off and attach your own. Here are the instructions that came with the unit, translated to english: Wiring: CDI Side - Bike Side Orange - Coil + Blue - Blue/Yellow (Blue with yellow stripe) (This wire comes from the crank trigger) Black - Green (Ground) Red - Black/Red (Power feed) White - Black/White (Ignition switch) The spare wire on the bike side is Green/White, and needs to be connected to ground. To figure out the green/white took a while, lots of thinking, internetting, and a phonecall to @johnnyfive who is a GC and dismantled his bike to trace wires for me. There was a brief period where I didn't think I'd have it running again for east cape this week. But it seems I've got it sorted. As it happens, it would have been a plug and play solution for J5's bike... There must be some variation between models. Anyway, now its all ready to go. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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anglia4 Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Well that's the Eastcape ride done for another year. The CRM outperformed all my expectations. It couldn't keep up on the road sections. It survived all the water flooding and crossings. (despite filling the airbox with water) It was bloody brilliant on the gravel. It was really good at doing Hot Rod style donuts and silly static wheelstands. It was nearly a faultless ride. On day 2, I was finding it would run a bit shit after seeing lots of water, and if I went over a big bump it would cough. At one point I was being silly and rode it up a wee bank, when I rode back down it died and was a real prick to start. I had a bit of a think about what it might be, and at the next stop I cracked open the airbox cover and it dumped about 100ml of water on the ground. All good after that! The only other issue was on day 3, about 2 km from J5's place, and slightly closer to finishing than where the GT"50" jammed up the year before. It was in full 2 stroke kazoo mode buzzing along as fast as it could go, and then a sudden bang/crunch followed by absolute silence as I clutched in and coasted off the road... Fearing the worst, I hopped off the bike to find the chain off the sprocket and all stuffed up into the stator cover along with the lower chain guide. The chain guide had broken, done a lap of the rear sprocket and then burried everything into the front. I pulled the cover off roadside, untangled the mess of chain, back together and finished the ride. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted January 29, 2023 Author Share Posted January 29, 2023 Free selling on trade me got my a into g with the GT50. I’ve added some more rubber isolation under the petrol tank and tightened up all the engine mounts which has cured its vibrations. It’s such a sweet bike now compared to when I brought it, but I’m ready to move on to the next big project. Tell your friends! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 I took the silver bullet for a bit of a farewell ride last night, I wanted to make sure all was well before I pass it on to anyone who might happen to buy it. 80km of the windiest roads we could string together. Bloody good fun. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anglia4 Posted August 16, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 16, 2023 oopsie daisies. I’ve gone and brought a V50. 7 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted November 10, 2023 Author Share Posted November 10, 2023 So with the V50, it turned up at home and I had a go at starting it. There were no signs of life at all. It needs some piecing together, its missing a couple of cables, and a foot peg, and the brake lever. So it just sat in the shed for a few weeks as a climbing gym for my 2yo daughter. Then one day I was looking at all the things missing, and noticed the choke cable, so I pulled it the choke on, and a handful of kicks and it fired into life. Sweet! I've been wanting to get into my ST90 though, so moved the V50 into storage and made a start on the little Honda. Replacing a few cables that are munted, fixing the headlight, fork seals etc. I'm waiting on a new seal for the speedo drive so that I can fit new brake shoes at the moment. This year for the King Country Crusade I'll be riding the CRM again, so I decided last night to do some maintenance. I ordered a fork seal kit ages ago, which turns out only does one leg, so I fixed the leaking one last night. While it was apart I found all the wheel bearings pretty much fuckd, one of the fronts has been so hot its blistered the seal. So now a week out from the ride my "its ready to go" bike is scattered all over the shed floor. But I have done some maintenance, fork seals, oil change, now the bearings etc. so it should be all sweet tonight! Oh and I've brought another ST90 frame and pile of parts... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anglia4 Posted November 14, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2023 All back together with some new bearings and seals, also finally got some more road appropriate rubber on there. Off with the moto-x knobblies and on with some goldenboy perfection. SR-244 on the rear. SR-241 on the front. It’s a proper adventure tourer now! 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anglia4 Posted December 2, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2023 So another big ride conquered. This thing was an absolute pleasure on the King Country Crusade. The new tires seemed to help with the sealed road speed, which was good as I was the leader most of the ride. Definitely not as awesome as the knobblies on the gravel, but much better all round. i got two bloody punctures during the ride which was frustrating, but otherwise the bike went great. The radiator shroud arrived from Yaho this morning too. I’m really stoked as it makes it look much less like a piece of shit. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 I was walking past this in the shed the other day and noticed the muffler looking a little droopy... The bolt must have fallen out during the King Country Crusade ride, and then things have got a bit melty... Its left a pretty huge hole in the airbox. Luckily, and with massive thanks to @johnnyfive, I have a spare airbox lying around! 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Must be a common issue as the spare box is a bit melted too. @johnnyfive I recommend putting a nyloc on that bolt! I had always planned to try out this airbox, as the top of mine is all chopped out and I've had troubles with it ingesting water on the big rides in the rain. I was a bit worried that the factory inlet snorkle thing would restrict power a bit. Its definitely taken the angry 2-stroke *tang* out of the note, and made things much quieter *sadface* but its heaps smoother to ride, and actually revs out nicer. I've gained an easy close to 10km/h on the highway section to work. Cruises without too much drama at 80km/h now. It was a whole subframe off job to get the airbox out, which isn't quite the ball-ache that it looks. It was actually piss easy, which is refreshing for that kind of job. I spent a bit of time on some tidy up stuff that I've wanted to get on with for a while too. I fitted some rear indicators, took off the auxiliary tank, re-attached the left hand guard and finally put the radiator shroud on. Complete with compulsory 90's trail bike zip tie to mount to a bent radiator. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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anglia4 Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 This weekend in pictures: Been stranded at home with the whole family sick, so went to the barn to get something to work on. Unable to decide between finishing my ST90 or starting on the V50, I decided whichever was going to be easier to collect was the weekends project. Its now all stripped down ready to start blast & paint, and I'm about to order the missing bits from Japan. Stoked to finally be working on a Yamaha! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anglia4 Posted March 8 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 8 Super speedy same day turnaround at the sand blasters. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 I've been chipping away at getting this sorted. I had wanted to have it ready for this coming weekend, but that's not going to happen, so the new target is the Taupo Supercars in 3 weeks. It needed a couple of repairs: I'm not aiming for perfect, the frame is too rough of a starting point for that. Also had a crack in the petrol tank. And now it doesn't. I'll try and get some high build primer on it this week and see how it all looks after that and a sand. The foot peg assembly I got off trademe has been broken, repaired, bent and twisted... So I'm on the look out for another of those A box of parts arrived from Japan the other day, with new cables, headlight and a brake lever. New "less-broken" front guard is on order from trademe. Making progress. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 Spent a few minutes at smoko with the premier coating system. Then, of course it rained... hopefully it managed to get dry enough first. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfalfa Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Simmer down buddy, your V50 is gonna look better than mine after all this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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