What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Greybeard]

To take my mind off for a minute I made a walking stick holder for the HD. Deb bought me a folding one that I was shoving down my jacket but a bit uncomfortable.
Cheers

You Hells Angels and your horrific weapons🤪

[Worty]

To take my mind off for a minute I made a walking stick holder for the HD. Deb bought me a folding one that I was shoving down my jacket but a bit uncomfortable.
Cheers

You Hells Angels and your horrific weapons🤪

Watch yourself Musky, it has been known for walking sticks and table legs to be mistaken for sawn-offs

[muskrat]

G'day Fellas.
Looks like tomorrow the head comes off, valves and guides out, (good excuse to machine them to take Notrun valve stem seals) and set it up on the face plate to true it up, take a few thou off. Drop new guides in and lap the valves again. .
Wish me luck.
Cheers

G'day Fellas.
Well on removing the head and pulling the valves out I could just see a faint leak on left exhaust. Heated head on BBQ to 200C and pushed the guides out. The left ex guide was 1 thou over, the others std. I have a pair of +2's and a pair of +1's to use. I machined the intake guides to take the Notrun seals.
Set head up on lathe and took a few thou off to make flat. Reamed the ex holes to take the +2 guide and just ran a brass wire brush down the inlet guide holes to take the +1's. Heated the head again to 200c a and put the guides in the freezer for an hour (two beers). The guides dropped in easy without having to hit them. Let it all cool for 6 beers and was surprised the guides didn't need honing, the valves were a beautiful fit. The inlets ground in well but the ex were a bit beyond grinding. Bugga I used to have a lovely set of seat cutters. Head is now at a mates workshop to have the seats cut.
Might have it going again by weekend.
Cheers

[muskrat]

G'day Fellas.
All back together and started 2nd kick.
Warmed up this morning 1st kick.
RGSChris came up to The Tin Shed in Lithgow today so rode her down to meet him and a few mates all bar two on Lav's (Aussie slang for lavatories). Rode back to my place to inspect the Cafe. Lucky it started 1st kick and sounded impressive.
I think Chris left with a little more knowledge.
Later when cooled down I'll check the tappets again then good to go.
Cheers

[BSA_54A10]

You Hells Angels and your horrific weapons🤪

A few years back when the Howard Government created a bikie war a well known radio shock jock claimed the bikies were removing their shot gun handle bars & shooting each other with them.
Apparently the bulk of his listeners actually believed you could do this & his report was true .
People are soooo stupid .

[Greybeard]

People are soooo stupid .

Yup 😕

[Catz]

Pulled it out of my garage to work on another bike and because i'm going to give it a rest as it's pissing me right off being unable to start it. Doing a 12v conversion with BB electronic ignition. PITA.
I'll come back to it in a few days after a refresh. Bloody thing.

[muskrat]

G'day Catz.
Start a topic in the Lucas, Ignition, Charging, Electrical section. Quite a few members, including me, have done the conversion. I found it quite easy.
Cheers

[RichardL]

If that was the cafe’ I would have said to take the compression down from 43:1.

Richard L.

[RichardL]

As for me, I’ve got the front brake plate and newly-lined (by me) shoes on the lathe and down to the final fit.

Richard L.

[muskrat]

If that was the cafe’ I would have said to take the compression down from 43:1.

Richard L.

G'day Richard.
The Cafe is about 10:1 and combined with the primary ratio (belt & Notrun diaphragm clutch) she is a bitch to kick. If I get it right, sort of like kicking a big single and get her just over tdc and kick like I hate her, she fires up straight away. Having the electronic ignition timed just right is a must.

After the short ride yesterday the plunger is sounding OK. I gave her a second oil & filter change since re-build, a tiny bit of glitter to be expected. This morning I'll check the tappets again. She's ready for more longer runs.
Cheers

[RichardL]

As for me, I’ve got the front brake plate and newly-lined (by me) shoes on the lathe and down to the final fit.

Richard L.

Wow! Of course the bike is not back together, but I am going to need to be real careful not to be thrown over the handlesbars the first time I ride with the new front brake. I will soon post some pictures. The difference in liner thickness between mine and Emgo's is a bit starling.

Richard L

[Worty]

Bit miffed today.  Went to the garage to do some tidying up and noticed a few drops of oil on the floor - underneath the l/h fork which I've just put a new seal on.   There is a smidge of oil down the slider, although it could be from the copious amount of oil I smeared on the stanchion when putting the seal holder on.   Anyhow, it's not coming back apart anytime soon, so top ups seem to be the order of the day if, indeed, it is leaking.  Then, I suppose, its new stanchions.

[berger]

stop it worty my heart was racing after reading the first bit

[Worty]

stop it worty my heart was racing after reading the first bit

Heh, sorry mate!!   Rest assured, even if the motor did self destruct, I would NEVER 'blame' you or anything close.  I know how much work you and MWAS put into it, and I 100% respect the skills you both have.   If it did blow up, it'll either be my fault or the engine has genuinely reached the end of its serviceable life.  I reckon you and your brother have given it the best chance possible of surviving, so I'm happy either way.

Having said that, I won't be rebuilding the engine if it did fail badly.  I would probably salvage what I could, flog the rest for bits and pieces, and seek a decent, complete motor (or something like that anyway).

Have some B&Ts and relax!  All is good in the world (except the weather)