While I’m waiting on a new crankshaft to arrive, I sorted out the bodywork I’m going to put on the…
So the cases are clean, the internals are present, and it’s stopped raining, (not that that should make any difference!)It’s…
Over the past few days, I have been dismantling the engine into it’s constituent parts.Firstly, the Left hand side, where…
I have not the slightest idea of the condition of the engine from the donor bike.I know it was a…
The tank which came with the donor bike is dented and scratched, but I know that when it was last…
I want a headlamp which looks original, and doesn’t need a little black triangle on the glass to be legal…
Well I was rather hoping that I would connect it all up and everything would work.Silly me! The connecting everything…
While waiting for various parts to arrive in the post, I thought to overcome a small problem that I’m sure…
Notable work needing to be addressed on the donor bike loom. The fusebox is missing There is an extraneous connector…
After initial evaluation, and identifying which pieces of the loom need replacing or repair, I thought it would be easier…
The headlamp is a horror show. Somehow, i had convinced myself that it was original, but the plastic housing, while…
A few posts ago, I posted pictures of the two looms I have available, one from the donor bike, and…
When I assembled the brake caliper, I had thought that the piston was a little cocked in the bore.Naively, I…
In order to complete the wiring loom endpoints, I still need to fit the instruments and the handlebar switches to…
Here are the left and right switchgear from the donor bike. Straight away we can see that I am missing…
Success! Carefully increasing the jack pressure by a few millimeters at a time and then slackening off, I crept up…
After spending so much time filing, sawing, and drilling rusted bolts out of their sockets, I decided not to prioritise…
I have realised that i have been referring to “The Parts Box” on many occasions, and it behooves me to…
From the last post, we established that we need to prepare some parts to fit to the frame, in order…
Now that the project is up on it’s wheels, It’s time to look at bolting things on. Rather than approach…