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750 Katana Resurrection

I think I'm brake rotor obsessed... That cat in the background has two right hand rotors on the front wheel, I believe... :cool:
 
psyguy said:
I think I'm brake rotor obsessed... That cat in the background has two right hand rotors on the front wheel, I believe... :cool:
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That'd be correct, it's how that arrived too. I have a couple of sets of front rotors. Until I do something about it, you'll just have to look away.
 
I recently bought a pair of nearly-new front discs. The fact that they're both LH means nothing to me. I really couldn't care less.
They were being sold cheap as an unmatched pair for less than half the price a used matched pair would be, even well used.
 
BRAKE DISC
59211-45250

Both RH and LH discs are the same PN
 
Grimly said:
I recently bought a pair of nearly-new front discs. The fact that they're both LH means nothing to me. I really couldn't care less.
They were being sold cheap as an unmatched pair for less than half the price a used matched pair would be, even well used.
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Can't see 'em when your riding. I'd actually forgotten that the 650 had mismatched front discs.
 
Fairing sub-frame reassembled. Old headlight in as a place holder. A little tweaking required to align everything.

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Caliper piston kit and headlight arrived (finally). Fitted

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The headlight doesn't have a fitting for the park light, but the LED indicators that I have for this bike have running lights, so I'll wire these to the park light out put.

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The plan going forward is assemble the rear mudguard/tail light assembly (which I've painted). And refit the wiring loom. Unfortunately the coils look a bit poo, with some unsightly cracks.

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If you're not a slave to originality, fit a pair of MP08 coils from a Honda CBr1000, Glodwing, etc. Dirt cheap, common as muck and dead reliable.
They also have a dead handy feature of having easily replaceable leads.
 
Grimly said:
If you're not a slave to originality, fit a pair of MP08 coils from a Honda CBr1000, Glodwing, etc. Dirt cheap, common as muck and dead reliable.
They also have a dead handy feature of having easily replaceable leads.
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Thanks Dave. No this one isn't going to be period perfect. So I'm not too worried about non-OEM bits and bobs.

Carrying on with small things when I get time. Just modified the rear indicator brackets to carry some LED units. Discovered that the cushion spacers for the electrical component mounting plate had gone awol, so made some up out of panel steel. Currently refitting the wiring loom which I've rewrapped in cloth tape. I'll snap some pics of the progress on the roller tomorrow.

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Very impressive work, especially the frame straightening. I worked in a truck coachworks and my main work was straightening truck chassis after an accident. Your doing great and waiting on next instalment.
Dennis.
 
KiwiAlfa156 said:
Caliper piston kit and headlight arrived (finally). Fitte

The headlight doesn't have a fitting for the park light, but the LED indicators that I have for this bike have running lights, so I'll wire these to the park light out put.

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This is an E4 headlight approved for Holland, the dip will be the wrong way, Your original headlight glass is correct as there is no arrow this means it's for driving on the left. I'm pretty sure that it's the glass diffusing that determines where the beam focuses. If an E45, E47, E11 (Or any other Left side driving countries) can't be sourced then maybe swap the glass?
I've just gone through this with my 1000 dirt bike. even in UK trying to get a correct E11 headlight for a bike is a mission.

Here, this might help...

HELLA headlamp codes. Decoding the combinations
 
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The old headlamp is flat-dip, for the world market. Swings and roundabouts, but on a decent headlamp design it works well.
Unfortunately, many of them weren't very good.
 
Thanks Guys. Below is from the New Zealand vehicle standards "approved lighting" as per the NZ Transport Agency (Govt).

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For whatever reason E4 appears to be compliant in NZ and possibly Australia, which is where the headlight was supplied from.
 
A further bit of research and it seems the E = meets ECE approvals process and the Country code is for the country that granted the approval. As the ECE regulations are a standard, if one country certifies a particular light, it is deemed compliant in all other counties that use the ECE codes. Apparently the other numbers on the lens refer to the particular ECE standards that govern LH vs RH configurations, illumination patterns and all that jazz.

https://www.emcbayswater.com.au/blog/emc-testing/e-mark-e-mark-testing-en-50498-testing/
 
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