Popular Post Doug Hill Posted August 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2022 Here's my little sentimental toy. Always wanted one, can never find a nice early one. Swapped a ZXR250C that I picked up super cheap for this Moved house, during that process I didn't have any space for it, panicked and listed on trademe. Got all emotional several days in and couldn't deal with selling it, so I pulled it off trademe and just made space happen! It's a tidy wee project, I threw a second hand engine in it to keep it running. Original motor had been massively penisfingered by some womble, is salvageable and is in process of rebuild. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Oh awesome! Glad this turned up here. I was all geared to bid on it at the end of the auction but then it was withdrawn. Wondered what happened to it! Keen to see the build/tidy up. Love these little honeys. PM me if you ever want to sell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Goat said: Oh awesome! Glad this turned up here. I was all geared to bid on it at the end of the auction but then it was withdrawn. Wondered what happened to it! Keen to see the build/tidy up. Love these little honeys. PM me if you ever want to sell I can't sell it! It's far too coo Have a pile of NOS bits for when the restoration happens 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted January 12, 2023 Author Share Posted January 12, 2023 Finally got time to pull Glenn out of the storage unit and in to the new-to-me tiny garage Fitted him with a nice set of original handlebars to get rid of those shocking flatbars Looks like I'll have to make a new brake line as the original solid joiner has been shortened. So I guess I'll rebuild the front brakes while I'm at it 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted January 15, 2023 Author Share Posted January 15, 2023 Made the new line for the front brake once the young one did a sleep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 Slowly putting the GT125 back together. Built a 20t big bench top press to do the crank, all the cheaper presses I looked at were poxy piles of shit. And of course I didn't take pics once I finished it Ignition timing set. Just finishing off getting the right surface finish on the side covers, it's kinda half ass polished in all the pics and how the bike arrived. So keeping it that way. New old stock emblems coming for the covers. Cases all glass blasted and re-treated, pretty chuffed with how they look. Now on to the carbs, need to remember to order the intake gasket thingymabobs from somewhere, strange wee carbs the VM18s. The resin/phenolic spacer inside the bore is not listed in the Suzuki parts book, but it looks like you can get a newer and much sexier alternative nowadays. So my final hurdle is, some parts of the frame aren't super tidy but it is original paint. I'll have to see how the OCD vs originality battle goes once I put the engine in 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Have you got the cover for the cylinder head ? That at least should be polished. It's the one thing that makes the ramair versions stand out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 1 hour ago, GregT said: Have you got the cover for the cylinder head ? That at least should be polished. It's the one thing that makes the ramair versions stand out. The spark plug cover? I'm missing one of those. Seem like hens dicks to find too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 Popped the engine back in at some stupid hour last night. Nice to have the original back in the frame, the spare was from a later ugly era GT. Side note, I am desperate to get the new shed built 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 SHIT YES 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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