Finally!! finished for the day. Covered in grease and oil, new jeans looking like a 70's greasers. Hole in the new T shirt and a dirty face like a miners...good job the wifes away for the weekend.
Sorted all the worn joints on the gearchange out and turned up a new bush to take out the play - Made a big difference to the gearchange.
Back wheel out three times, what a bastard of a job that is? fitted the new spacers for the Billet 6 rear caliper only to find the ones supplied made it worse than the original setup
so turned up a couple of new spacers out of stainless 
covered the block paving in oil while doing the oil change. What a fecking stupid place to put an oil drain plug. You inevitably drop the drain plug in the bottom of the oil tank and the oil runs down everything and coats the entire floor underneath the bike
Pleased to find my old 1150 oil spanner also fits the Harley filter
Tweaked the mixture to richen it up a bit. Why in the name of all things holy do you have to remove the entire air box to adjust the mixture? the airbox is also the carb support bracket so you give the throttle a blip once you adjusted things only to get a big backfire and blow the carb off
The bikes running really well, lovely and smooth at 80. I can't be arsed ordering a true track from the states and paying $250 for it so I'll see about making one up.
Must remember next time I zip out for a test ride to make sure the back gates locked. The wind blew the door open and the chooks let themselves out. Had three of the neighbours running around the street rounding up the chickens
All set for a run to Devon next Friday then
Sorted all the worn joints on the gearchange out and turned up a new bush to take out the play - Made a big difference to the gearchange.
Back wheel out three times, what a bastard of a job that is? fitted the new spacers for the Billet 6 rear caliper only to find the ones supplied made it worse than the original setup
so turned up a couple of new spacers out of stainless covered the block paving in oil while doing the oil change. What a fecking stupid place to put an oil drain plug. You inevitably drop the drain plug in the bottom of the oil tank and the oil runs down everything and coats the entire floor underneath the bike
Pleased to find my old 1150 oil spanner also fits the Harley filter
Tweaked the mixture to richen it up a bit. Why in the name of all things holy do you have to remove the entire air box to adjust the mixture? the airbox is also the carb support bracket so you give the throttle a blip once you adjusted things only to get a big backfire and blow the carb off
The bikes running really well, lovely and smooth at 80. I can't be arsed ordering a true track from the states and paying $250 for it so I'll see about making one up.
Must remember next time I zip out for a test ride to make sure the back gates locked. The wind blew the door open and the chooks let themselves out. Had three of the neighbours running around the street rounding up the chickens
All set for a run to Devon next Friday then
