what did you wrench on today??

[simonw]

Welded up a new battery box for the Brat Project.....unfortunately spent more time fixing a pesky MIG welder than building the box...feed damn you.. FEED!

[wally]

I leaned the bike over, took stator cover off and the gears were all in the correct positions and even turned over by hand!

Hooked up the jumper cables again (with the cover off) and all the gears were spinning, except the magneto and not the motor.

Changed the connection of the jumper leads around and hey presto!

I had the - on the starter and + on the frame. I thought it was wrong, but it gave no reaction yesterday with the + on the starter.

Anywayyyyy...

[pete]

Haha love it Wally, a simple solution is always best

[Redman]

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I had the - on the starter and + on the frame. I thought it was wrong, but it gave no reaction yesterday with the + on the starter.
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Good that you found problem with the starter clutch.

You did say that you hooked the jumper cables backwards directly to the starter motor. If you had hooked the jumper cables backwards to the battery you will need to check and see if charging system still works, and if ignition system still works.

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[wally]

Thanx Redman. Luckily battery is out along with all the wiring - I got it that way.

Prepping it to go to electrical specialist to rewire this week.

[8ball]

Didn't wrench on anything, today, but I spent a few hours in the cave sweeping, tidying ....and watching a few races that happened in Australia this weekend...

[Mad Mark]

replaced my RR with a ebay shindengen 532 today after my old one fried out. im back riding again! many thanks to GSR and all that helped out and a special thanks to tom203 for finding me the RR on ebay.

[pete]

I couldn't help myself... had to do one last bit of carb fiddling tonight... I'm just hoping it wasn't a bad move! It comes highly recommended... I'll see on the commute tomorrow...







Just under 20mm's off the length of the slide springs.

The other highly recommended action is to increase the diameter of the hole in the slide.

I figure I can get new springs, but a new slide... well... not so easy so I'll leave that one for the moment.

Also, the dual socket USB charger I bought the other week died, and I got some awesome customer service from the guys I bought it from (www.thirdgear.com.au) and they express posted me a replacement yesterday before I'd even sent the faulty one back, and they refunded me the postage for sending the faulty one back.

New one installed and working:

[rustybronco]

What's up with the corrosion on that left mirror support? Want I should mail you some paint?

[pete]

Hahaha that's the clutch perch I painted with that horrible 3M caliper paint I tried... the front caliper looks the same! Won't be using that again...

I'd re-paint it except I really don't want it off the road long enough to do so... I can live with it for the moment

When I get my Kat, I will have time to go back and touch those little details up

[gsrick]

Finally getting to the '81 550T I bought for my wife. We are just going to get to the known issues first and get it running first. She is doing most of the wrenching with some instruction and minimal help from me. She can wrench, but isn't familiar with bikes. She revamped her own VW powered railbuggy back in the early 90s and isn't afraid to get dirty. So the first thing on the list was to replace the starter. Simple enough task to get your feet wet on, eh? Problem was is a PO has worked on the bike, evidenced by the non stock fasteners(some missing) and black silicone ooozing out of the engine side covers. So off comes the starter cover, not! A PO has put the cam tensioner on backwards, blocking the starter cover. The 550 is too compact to just remove it, so off come the carbs. Which is impossible without moving the air box and the electronics back and away. Thanks to a tip and reciently working on an identicle bike, I knew about loosening up the rear inner fender for more room. Luckily I was going to clean the carbs eventually, so no time like the present. 3 and 4 are soaking as I post. In the mean time my wife is prepairing the starter cover for paint. I had a spare 750 starter and thank God the cover has the long bubble, so it wont touch the lead wire bolt which is closer to the middle of the starter than on the end. we installed the starter, cam tensioner(in the correct orientation) and electronics. Eureka she turns over by the starter button. 1 item down many more to go. I'll post a few picts on the computer later.
I was surprised to find this. No way we can get that out without taken the carbs off.

Ah much better........ bonus that it has the long bubble on the starter cover.

I guess they thought the more the better. I'll cut new gaskets with an x-acto and a paper hole punch.

Bonnie undoing the carb linkage. I'll have her drain the oil and remove the covers tonight.

[pete]

Aaaah gotta love PO's! Gotta start somewhere right Rick? Good stuff!

[Zim]

New accelerator pump. Ten minute job...I'm exhausted.

[chuck hahn]

Finished up the 73 Yamaha TX 750 engine today. Pics to follow in my project thread in the OTHER PROJECTS section.

[gsrick]

Aaaah gotta love PO's! Gotta start somewhere right Rick? Good stuff!

Thanks Pete, I've started a build thread called Her 550T in Projects/rebuilds.