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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2014 20:15:33 GMT
Test fitted the headlight bowl, Fitted the 20a mini relays that work the front light, Then thought about where and how the indicators would fit, these were originally fitted to the fairing, but on 14mm stalks, so found a bit of stainless bar, and decided to make mounts of the front fork pinch bolts, drilled the holes, To fit the pinch bolts, Cut a bit of stainless tube and notched it at the end, Tig weld the bits together, not the best of welding! Then try on the bike, Then fit the housing and the tank, to make sure they clear the tank, Which they do, just with little clearance, then extend the wires and fit the internals and covers,
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2014 20:31:21 GMT
The gearbox getting new bearings is beginning to hold me up, so I am doing small jobs, and resisting the temptation, to rush things, The main positive lead in the loom was covered in red tape, I wrongly assumed that the tape was just to mark the positive lead so as to make sure it was fitted to the battery correctly, today I unwrapped the tape, this is what I found, It was well corroded, with only a quarter of the strands actually connected, so I cut the terminal off, figuring I could easily re crimp a new terminal on after baring the wires, Unfortunately not, if you look closely it's corroded, so I ended up cutting until it was back about 8 inches, then had to solder a new bit of heavy duty cable, before crimping on a new terminal, heat shrinking and fitting cable shroud as I went along.
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Post by m40man on May 15, 2014 20:40:56 GMT
Seems to be coming along nicely Ian . ........... do you ever get any paid work done, with all this fettling ?
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2014 20:51:50 GMT
Seems to be coming along nicely Ian . ........... do you ever get any paid work done, with all this fettling ? Yes, of course I do, I deal with the customers and answer the phone, And I do some mechanicals, Had this in today, with some electrical issues, I need to pull the starter off it tomorrow and clean, wait for the new relays to arrive, then do a full service,
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Post by teejayexc on May 15, 2014 21:09:31 GMT
A Guzzi with leccy problems! Well I never Bm looks to coming along nicely.
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2014 21:18:18 GMT
A Guzzi with leccy problems! Well I never Bm looks to coming along nicely. Yes why did they buy Japanese relays and French starter motors, fools!
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Post by neilmud Lord Protector on May 15, 2014 21:21:24 GMT
A Guzzi with leccy problems! Well I never Bm looks to coming along nicely. Don't be stoopid its the silver one behind hes working on after the attempted bodge on the beemers power cable do you really thing he can touch a customers pride & joy & hes allowed to answer the phone so he feels wanted Neil
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 21, 2014 12:17:27 GMT
It may look like I haven't done much of late and you would be right, I sorted out by grit blast cabinet at home and cleaned the bracket that serves as both a mounting for the front mudguard and as a fork brace, it's use as a mudguard mounting is over, but it still needs to do the fork brace job, it's well pitted and corroded, but still solid, so blasted it looks like this a bit closer, I then had to fill in the pits, using body filler, lots of sanding and then a prime coat of zinc primer, the half a dozen coats of satin black, and its now looking a lot better,
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Post by moo on May 21, 2014 17:08:41 GMT
This thing looks the sex.
The 2nd photo down in the 1st post... my god. I would love one! What an awesome rugged look!
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 28, 2014 18:05:52 GMT
Got some news about the gearbox
Hi Ian,
I have removed the cotter Pin and have stripped the box down, I'll press the kickstart lever off the shaft later. I'll renew the kickstart return spring while its apart.
The box is quite good inside. There is a bit of play in the two output shaft bearings but the rest are good (I'll renew them all anyway).
The second gear pinion on the output shaft runs on a plain sleeve, the sleeve showed signs of 'picking up' and was pitted - yet the gear pinion was fine. I have put a better sleeve back in from my spares bin
The input shaft shock absorber is quite worn, the lobes are worn down on one side. I'll source a new pair of items (or good second hand) from Motorworks.
Do you want me to carry out the "Circlip mod" on the output shaft, Its not really necessary on an '80' but I have a carbide cutter for my lathe and can do it while its all apart. I won't charge.
Today I removed the left cylinder, piston and removed the valves, valve guides seem good, pictures to follow in the next day or two!
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Post by neilmud Lord Protector on May 28, 2014 18:31:23 GMT
Today I removed the left cylinder, piston and removed the valves, valve guides seem good, pictures to follow in the next day or two! Glad to see that after your weekend away your back hard at work Neil
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2014 18:36:43 GMT
Got some news about the gearbox Hi Ian, I have removed the cotter Pin and have stripped the box down, I'll press the kickstart lever off the shaft later. I'll renew the kickstart return spring while its apart. The box is quite good inside. There is a bit of play in the two output shaft bearings but the rest are good (I'll renew them all anyway). The second gear pinion on the output shaft runs on a plain sleeve, the sleeve showed signs of 'picking up' and was pitted - yet the gear pinion was fine. I have put a better sleeve back in from my spares bin The input shaft shock absorber is quite worn, the lobes are worn down on one side. I'll source a new pair of items (or good second hand) from Motorworks. Do you want me to carry out the "Circlip mod" on the output shaft, Its not really necessary on an '80' but I have a carbide cutter for my lathe and can do it while its all apart. I won't charge. Best Regards M40Man
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Post by teejayexc on May 28, 2014 19:04:16 GMT
Got some news about the gearbox Hi Ian, I have removed the cotter Pin and have stripped the box down, don't know if I'll get it back together again but hey ho., I'll 2@ the kickstart lever off the shaft later. I'll put the kickstart return spring back in while its apart, if I can find it. The box is quite good inside. There is a bit of play in the two output shaft bearings but the rest are good so I'll bung 'em back in. The second gear pinion on the output shaft runs on a plain sleeve, the sleeve showed signs of 'picking up' and was pitted - yet the gear pinion was fine. I have put another sleeve back in from my scrap bin. The input shaft shock absorber is quite worn, the lobes are worn down on one side, but it does't matter, (who the hells gonna know anyway?) Do you want me to carry out the "Circlip mod" on the output shaft, Its not really necessary on an '80' but I have an angle grinder in my shed somewhere and can do it while its all apart, can't guarantee it'll stay on but worth a go. Best Regards M40Man
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Post by neilmud Lord Protector on May 28, 2014 19:18:20 GMT
Got some news about the gearbox Hi Ian, I have removed the cotter Pin and have stripped the box down, I'll press the kickstart lever off the shaft later. I'll renew the kickstart return spring while its apart. The box is quite good inside. There is a bit of play in the two output shaft bearings but the rest are good (I'll renew them all anyway). The second gear pinion on the output shaft runs on a plain sleeve, the sleeve showed signs of 'picking up' and was pitted - yet the gear pinion was fine. I have put a better sleeve back in from my spares bin The input shaft shock absorber is quite worn, the lobes are worn down on one side. I'll source a new pair of items (or good second hand) from Motorworks. Do you want me to carry out the "Circlip mod" on the output shaft, Its not really necessary on an '80' but I have a carbide cutter for my lathe and can do it while its all apart. I won't charge. Best Regards M40Man
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 28, 2014 19:36:27 GMT
Today I removed the left cylinder, piston and removed the valves, valve guides seem good, pictures to follow in the next day or two! Glad to see that after your weekend away your back hard at work Neil That's 30 mins tops, there's nothing simpler than an airhead engine!
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 30, 2014 14:44:06 GMT
Rocker cover removed and rocker posts removed, all bagged up and marked so as I could put them back where they belong, though they are handed, the same nuts hold on the cylinders and there are two nuts that hold the cylinders to the head, that are also removed, then remove the pushrods,and withdraw the heads and cylinders, a little sticky but not to hard, first thing whilst the valves are still in the head is to check to see if the valves were leaking, they were not! then remove both valves, keeping all the inlet stuff to one side and the exhaust stuff to the other, the heads were bead blasted, just to clean them, and the heavy carbon deposit removed from the head area, once blasted the heads were thoroughly cleaned including a trip through the dishwasher, sneaked in when babs was not looking, even though they were not leaking, I spent a little time lapping the valves in, for the hard of thinking, I did this over a few days,one side at a time, on the right hand side,the two cylinder studs at the front had been screwed into helicoil repairs to the block, the studs moved a bit when undone and I was concerned that they would pull out of the block when refitting, fortunately they torqued up to the required 39nm without issue, so the 1000cc barrels and pistons are fitted! que comment from my line manager Neil
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jun 4, 2014 13:25:21 GMT
well not much happening on the build front, waiting for the gearbox to be fixed, so when I test rode the bike, it wasn't fueling quite how it should, so I had planned on having a look inside the carbs, Bing CV carbs are about as simple as they get, there isn't even any screws holding the float bowls on, it taking out the mixture screw, which is on the right outside the float bowls, and the slow running jet, which is in the middle, the O rings have seen better days, but the carb is clean and relatively unworn, now I never get the o rings from the dealer, as they are a huge price, these are no exception, being £0.82p each plus postage and I needed 4, so a bag of 50 ordered from www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400353265163?var=670051096579&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649actually I ordered some 3/4/5mm ones in both 1mm ID and 2mm ID, and fitted them, Bing's don't have a conventional choke as such, merely a bleed off of both fuel and air, controlled by a cable, one of the carbs had 2 return springs and was pretty stiff in operation, the other had a very light operation and snapped shut using what appeared to be a higher strength spring than original, so stripped apart,
so I cleaned them with scotch brite and lubed the sealing o ring with rubber grease, then I fitted some new springs, now they both work fine, ready for refitting, though I will order new float bowl seals, I did buy some but I ordered the wrong size!
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Post by HRHpenfold on Aug 8, 2014 21:53:29 GMT
Yes I know nothings changed, that's because I am relying on someone to rebuild the gearbox, next box that needs rebuilt I am going to have ago myself, but still I have to wait, I could do some of the peripheral stuff, but CBA whilst the box is holding me up, I now have a few more bodywork options, and another Gs project, but I ain't even looking at it until the current project is roadworthy, here it is
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Post by DahDit on Aug 10, 2014 23:27:37 GMT
Nice diary of events Ian.
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Post by HRHpenfold on Aug 21, 2014 10:04:24 GMT
As I usually have a few projects on the go, I think I am going to combine them into this thread, to save having multiple threads, if a moderator could change the thread title, as I can't seem to do it, something like HrHPenfold's pitstop, should suffice, anyhow It's been a long while, but the gearbox is finaly back all repaired like, after I wiped the tears from my eyes at the cost(1),I spruced up the outer case so it looked all spangly and new looking! turned out quite nice, so I put some optimol paste on the input spline and fitted it to the engine, (1) I actually purchased a used box that although was described as good, needs a rebuild, though I was going to replace the bearings anyhow, it was cheap and I bought it to have ago at rebuilding it myself, and would be a spare, I am going to have to make a tool or 2 in order to strip the box, but i will show that later!
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Post by HRHpenfold on Aug 21, 2014 10:12:12 GMT
as I said I have a few projects on the go, this is one of them, sorry about the crap iphone pictures! it is a Moto Guzzi Le Mans 2, though it is fitted with 950cc barrels and pistons,there is some parts with it, but plenty of missing parts!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 10:24:25 GMT
Maybe you should change the name of the thread. How many projects does one man need ?
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Post by HRHpenfold on Aug 21, 2014 10:44:04 GMT
Maybe you should change the name of the thread. How many projects does one man need ? N+1 dear Bev, where N is the number you have!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 11:24:41 GMT
Maybe you should change the name of the thread. How many projects does one man need ? N+1 dear Bev, where N is the number you have! Agreed, though I have little time and even less room for them at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 12:54:09 GMT
Great thread Ian, it will be nice to see these on the road sometime.
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Post by HRHpenfold on Aug 21, 2014 15:04:38 GMT
Great thread Ian, it will be nice to see these on the road sometime. I do have some projects that are roadworthy!
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Post by neilmud Lord Protector on Aug 21, 2014 15:17:06 GMT
Glad you pointed out the last bike was a Guzzi thought it was another Beemer. that had been down the road & sustained major damage to the cylinders Neil
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Post by HRHpenfold on Aug 21, 2014 15:38:36 GMT
Glad you pointed out the last bike was a Guzzi thought it was another Beemer. that had been down the road & sustained major damage to the cylinders Neil It's a proper gentleman's bike neil, something in which you have little experience in, never mind www.gentlemansride.com/
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Post by Doom on Aug 21, 2014 20:08:01 GMT
Nice one Ian. I always look forward to updates on this thread.
I like the Guzzi though I shouldn't really. Takes me back to my youth.
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Post by DahDit on Aug 21, 2014 22:03:56 GMT
That gearbox is a restoration beauty. But nothing compared to the pert b00bs of the Guzzi. You can see where the money went on the 'box just from the attention the outside has received. That is assuming the internals got the same meticulous work applied.
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