Third time

[blackhammer]

New tank looks great with the clip-ons.

I'm sure i read it before but cant remember, what gauge cluster are you using?

[Blower]

New tank looks great with the clip-ons.

I'm sure i read it before but cant remember, what gauge cluster are you using?

It´s Koso RX1N.

[posplayr]

Beautiful work

[Blower]

I got the tank finished. It´s far from perfect, but it´s more go than show bike so there can be some surface imperfections.
These imperfections can be sanded off, but then the strength of the material suffers.
In any case, I'm fairly happy with the result:

[Blower]

I bought a set of SV1000 brake discs. Front discs are direct replacement for the old ones, but the rear disc was lot smaller than EFE´s original.
So I made new caliber bracket:

[psyguy]

I think you may be running out of things to fabricate yourself so you bought the new rear disc JUST so to have a reason to fabricate a new bracket!

Impressive work nonetheless, as always

[spyug]

I think you may be running out of things to fabricate yourself so you bought the new rear disc JUST so to have a reason to fabricate a new bracket!

I was thinking the same thing but if you had a milling machine wouldn't you want to fiddle too......I know I would. It's too bad he's so far away or there would be a lot of custom parts ordering going on I'm sure. Having access to a willing machinist would be a great thing I've always thought.

Growing up as a teenager in the 60s and getting into Brit and European sports cars I was very fortunate to have a tool and die maker dad who could fab up stuff for me. I don't have much of his skills or access to a mill or lathe but I enjoy bodging things myself and I enjoy following what guys like Blower come up with. A true artist with metal.

Keep up the great work my friend.

[Blower]

I think you may be running out of things to fabricate yourself so you bought the new rear disc JUST so to have a reason to fabricate a new bracket!

Impressive work nonetheless, as always

I bought new discs because the former ones went out of shape. They were made by my drawings. Front discs was made from construction steel and rear one from stainless steel.
The rear disc was dish-shaped! I was lucky it does not destroyed the caliper.
Anyway, it was fun to make new bracket

[oldgrumpy]

It take about one hour to weld the tank:



Some welds on inside:




And after several hours of sanding & hammering it looked like this:



There are some high & low spots which I´m going to fix tomorrow.

............. that bike looks teasing great work regards oldgrumpy

[Blower]

I get my "spare" cylinder head from machine shop today. Intake & exhaust ports need minor fine tune porting after full radius seat job.
After porting job I blocked oil bores to rockers. I made M8 threads in the bores and blocked them with stop screws with thread sealer.

[Blower]

Today I took the engine out of frame, put it in pieces, cleaned parts, blocked oil holes for the top end in the engine block and inspected crankshaft.
I did not found anything wrong in the crankshaft which would be caused that clanking noise. It need to put in pieces to find whats wrong. So while i get the other crankshaft from the specialist i take this one to him.

Old oil burner on the table:

[John Kat]

What kind of clanking noise are you hearing?
Is it just around idle?
If it is, it's the clutch basket that's moving from left to right as it gets pushed or pulled by the primary helical gear.

[steve murdoch]

Could it be a starter clutch clank?

[Blower]

During last summer I changed clutch basket and changed starter clutch bolts. Same metallic clanking noise at idle and when riding. I checked the crank again and #3 connecting rod big end bearing has slightly more play than others.

[John Kat]

What about the piston to cylinder clearance?