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[dablik]

 

 

You know it makes sense 

 

do yo have an oiler on the Himi Cliff ?

Yep got one on the Himi Steve, same one as yours, sure you sent me the link for one yonks ago, was previously fitted on the MK1 and transferred over to the Enfield.

[leehenty]

Rode it, loved it but puddles splashed it so cleaning it again tomorrow.

[ramo]

Yep got one on the Himi Steve, same one as yours, sure you sent me the link for one yonks ago, was previously fitted on the MK1 and transferred over to the Enfield.

 

[jamy]

Removed the datatool today... well... on Sunday... at 3AM when it went off having shorted itself after it got a little wet on a ride the previous afternoon.

 

Dismantled the rear of the bike to get to the damn thing out and went at it with a screwdriver until it stopped wailing, and went back to bed.

 

Monday evening after work was spent preparing myself with as much knowlege as I could find on removing all that remained of the little terror, and gazing mournfully at the now further dismantled TDM.

 

I scoured wiring diagrams, many Triumph forums (many of which came with such an alarm, and many of which were subsequently removed), images of the main loom etc, in an effort to understand what I was dealing with... I put the ingnition on, in an effort to find error codes, perhaps they could direct me to where my wiring had been spliced.

The dread set in as I looked at my own loom and saw that it did not look that bastardised. "Whoever fitted this didn't do it on a Friday afternoon" I thought to myself... "they've done a very good job". I repaired to bed, and had a sleepness night thinking of the 200kg paper weight on its main stand in the garage.

 

This evening I resumed gazing wistfully at the loom in an attempt to fix it with my thoughts. I then remembered something a colleague had told me throughout the day, something him and his friends did back in their boy-racer days.. "When one of us would get a new Saxo, if you disarmed the alarm and then just unplugged it, it would trick the car in to believing everything was alright" (I paraphrase).

So I plugged the DataBollox back in to the alarm connectors located near the rear of the wiring loom, and turned the ignition on... The little box tried its hardest to wail and warn that it was being tampered with, but my forray into it the other night with a screwdriver had removed its siren - great success. From there I pressed the disarm button and immediately unpugged the alarm from the loom and switched off the ignition...

 

"Surely this can't have worked..." ignition on, press the starter... and it fired right up.

 

I stood in disbelief, staring at the rev counter as the garage continued to fill with CO, thinking that I need to spray some more ACF in the fast idle plunger as it was idling a bit low, and then turned the key to off.

 

I will check it works again tomorrow before I put it back together...

[Snowbird]

Took it for mot, passed as always with no advisories but most things do where I go.
Took it to my mums to fix her zimmer bike and got wet on the way home.
Pub calls!

[Snowbird]

And just taxed it for next month, why does even taxing a vehicle have to be followed by a bloody survey????

So I ticked fully satisfied box and in the "how can we improve this service" text box it seemed obligatory to enter "free pint and a blow job", well you have to....

[fixitsan]

And just taxed it for next month, why does even taxing a vehicle have to be followed by a bloody survey????

So I ticked fully satisfied box and in the "how can we improve this service" text box it seemed obligatory to enter "free pint and a blow job", well you have to....

 

Haha !

 

"How can we improve our service ? "

"....Stop subjecting users to surveys ? "

[Favs]

Curbed my enthusiasm by lubing the TDM clutch cable. Need a rest now....

[chrisr]

I didn’t think they needed lubing, haven’t they got some sort of lining?

[Favs]

Yes they have a lining but they still get old n sticky tra la la.....HD springs n clutch in mine ..my limp wist needs all the help etc.


" c" for you apfel users...

[Favs]

Mot pass, with the new MOT regs, the H3 LED headlight bulbs passed with the correct beam pattern too

[trevini]

Finally got my arse into gear and swapped out a load of bearings - wheels both ends (they were getting a bit rough and the rear had a little play), swing arm as there wasn't much point in not doing them while it was out (good call as the inner sleeve was getting a bit marked up), rear linkage, pins and bolts. Came apart really easily, but it has been greased regularly. A couple of the pins were starting to wear, so another good call. Head race done too as it was getting a bit notch.

 

BUT, there's always a but! I have a very slight knock on the rear end, which is what started this journey. Bike on level ground, sat astride, stand up, sit down and a tiny knock. The only thing I can see is the tiniest movement on the dogbones when the rear is elevated and hanging, then levered up using a plank under the wheel. Pins, bolts  etc all new and good quality bearings. Having dismantled to check, it looks like its the bolt moving slightly inside the pin when assembled. There's also a little movement between the dogbone and bolt when disassembled, so I've ordered some new dogbones just incase the hole has enlarged (but I'm not convinced it has. 

 

 

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[drewpy]

repaired my thermostat, and bike ran great.

 

changed oil and filters, tank back on. Nothing, nada. no power except neutral lamp.

 

any ideas?

[leehenty]

Trevini torque the suspension sleeve bolts with weight of bike on rear wheel then all should be good.1st and fourth sleeves from left look to be well shot. Did you replace the needle bearing too ?

Edited by leehenty, 30 March 2023 - 05:48 pm.

[trevini]

Trevini torque the suspension sleeve bolts with weight of bike on rear wheel then all should be good.1st and fourth sleeves from left look to be well shot. Did you replace the needle bearing too ?

Done that already Lee.  All torqued up to correct settings with suspension loaded by bike weight. Every bearing is new and everything other than the bearings are genuine parts. The only original parts are the main suspension link body and the dog bones. 
 

edit to add… the worst two pins were on rear shock lower and upper dog one on swing arm. They look worse than they are and aren’t particularly worn, just heavily marked and not cleaned up in the pic. 

Edited by trevini, 30 March 2023 - 06:23 pm.

[drewpy]

repaired my thermostat, and bike ran great.

 

changed oil and filters, tank back on. Nothing, nada. no power except neutral lamp.

 

any ideas?

sussed it.

i had torrential rain and the seat was off. seems the fuse box got damp and blew a fuse new fuses ordered

[Favs]

Suspension linkage serviced today. STD Dogbones back on. All good. Test ride tomorrow morning.

[Studley Ramrod]

Booking in for MOT on Wed.

[Favs]

Bimble round Northumberland today - Forks service later this month maybey .....

[fixitsan]

Done that already Lee.  All torqued up to correct settings with suspension loaded by bike weight. Every bearing is new and everything other than the bearings are genuine parts. The only original parts are the main suspension link body and the dog bones. 
 

edit to add… the worst two pins were on rear shock lower and upper dog one on swing arm. They look worse than they are and aren’t particularly worn, just heavily marked and not cleaned up in the pic. 

 

Shocks can give a clunk, internally, too