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[dablik]

Silverspots i'll av u no...... yes i have a 14mm front mc to go on with them, like you i find with the regular 5/18 mc me thinks (16mm) the brakes are diabolical, very wooden, i'll also be putting new lines onnit, if their anything like me last mk1 or the 9r i'll be well chuffed..

 

Ps my mc is from an FJR1300 gives a bit more choice..

[dablik]

Today oi was gasketeering a little bit

 

1st tried marking the oil cover with some Lipstick wot Studley sent me and that were'nt very good, used Moly instead and made a reasonable impression to cut out, got the others to do when cases are back.

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[Snowbird]

Silverspots i'll av u no...... yes i have a 14mm front mc to go on with them, like you i find with the regular 5/18 mc me thinks (16mm) the brakes are diabolical, very wooden, i'll also be putting new lines onnit, if their anything like me last mk1 or the 9r i'll be well chuffed..

 

Ps my mc is from an FJR1300 gives a bit more choice..

Fair play, looked like you may have took the anodising off by bead blasting or similar.

I'm very tempted but must get more used to the bike first before spending dosh on something I might just get used to.

[Studley Ramrod]

Silverspots are the latest Yamaha calipers SB, they use them on the 9'er.

 

Nice job on the gasket Dabbers.

[drewpy]

I changed mine to a 900 mc and it immediately felt great.
Go for it.

[dablik]

I changed mine to a 900 mc and it immediately felt great.
Go for it.

 

Same thing drewpy, but i believe after 2003/04 they changed the mc size again..

[dablik]

Collected this morning from F&J Skelmersdale

 

These babies came out lovely, very smooth finish on them, interestingly Yams alloy is a different colour to Kwaks which is shittier

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Hopefully off to the Engineers on Monday with the crankshaft, head and barrels, need to also measure the oil clearances over the weekend, pretty sure the numbers off the web match the previous crankshaft , need to look at photo's.

 

Edit... just to add for info, F&J who bead blasted the cases also pre hot tank to  remove oil and grease then chem dip to remove paint, included in the price before blasting, my research shows most other places (at least near to me) require you to first degrease and remove paint before they will touch them, so an awful lot of labour saved for me.

Edited by dablik, 12 July 2019 - 04:25 pm.

[dablik]

Delivery from Fowlers, waiting on the backorder for the rest.

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[dapleb]

A whole lot of lick going on dabbers.

[dablik]

Aye sure is, may as well do it proper eh, i eggspect i'll replace the bearing shells an all, prolly/maybe......ouch ouch ouch...

[Studley Ramrod]

Proper fettlin' porn eh.   They've done a grand job cleaning the parts.

[dablik]

Have to decide iffin i'm gonna paint em...cant make me mind up, alternator cover is pitted quite a bit where they lose all the paint on em, hmmm.

[wicklamulla]

Have to decide iffin i'm gonna paint em...cant make me mind up, alternator cover is pitted quite a bit where they lose all the paint on em, hmmm.

surely ya hafta apply sumtin to them as it's bare aluminium now innit?

[dablik]

surely ya hafta apply sumtin to them as it's bare aluminium now innit?

 

My thought's an all Ken, think i'll wax em up to give some protection from the elements.

[wicklamulla]

 

My thought's an all Ken, think i'll wax em up to give some protection from the elements

sounds good but the heat near the downpoipes will soon melt the wax.  can ya powder coat aluminium or is it only pissible to etch prime and then spray paint a top coat?   Dapleb yew etch primed yer frock legs years ago and was wondering how the finish held up?  This is all a learning curve fer me hence all the questions.

[dapleb]

Forks held up great...cous they were built in 2012 for when my old set gave up.... Which they haven't yet despite the rust bubbles, so not yet fitted.

[dablik]

The wax is bonded with very fine metal dust and when rubbed in and buffed it gets into the pores and will harden off after awhile, the downpipes may present issues to some degree as they get roasting on our bikes but i'm not overly concerened, a lot of clear coats dont seem to hold up either as they can yellow, the internet is full of shoite seems to me, nobody can agree on fook all.. so only one way to find out i guess !  quite a number of chaps on Ad rider have used the rubnbuff method with it holding up reasonably well it seems.

Alubright is another product but apparently it stays sticky..

 

If me engine looks okay for the 1st year i'll  be happy but getting a natural patina onnit prolly wont bother me to much, it's not gonna be nannied and lives outside so we'll see, if it ends up looking really shoite after a year or 2 i'll pull the motor..

 

You could prolly get away with powdercoating the side cases but i would'n do the engine on our bike, painting Ken, well your choice really, PJ1 (Black only) requires no primer and will spray directly onto clean Aluminium, Simoniz also has some not requiring primer either, i think some people would worry with our bikes about putting to much paint on the engine as it runs hot but suppose you could fit a switch for the fan eh. Best option i've come across is epoxy primer ( the new etch !!) before paint, i'm not convinced a High Heat paint is required, prolly more down to the prep ya ask me, and what older cast iron engines got painted with may be not so good for Aluminium, it's a minefield all geared at making us spend moola.

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[dablik]

So today i had a squish, not once but twice as the crankshaft got a nudge the 1st time while flippin the top case, how i dunno got caught on summit, anyhoo

 

Oil Clearance Main journals

0.020 to 0.038

 

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Given time tomorrow i'll meaure the Big ends and prolly the camshafts while i'm at it...

 

Edit.... was thinkin it prolly wouldn't have made much difference if i had placed the plastiguage off the centre line somewhat and avoided the holes in the shells, Haynes seems to think it's important to be centre

Edited by dablik, 14 July 2019 - 09:03 am.

[dablik]

Collected me bits from the powder coaters today.

 

A wee taster to tittilate

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[dapleb]

I'm running out of lick spittle.