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Discussion in 'The Pub' started by kiffsta, Nov 3, 2013.

  1. Andych

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    Wow... talk about before and after shots... surely the engine has been painted to look that different.. especially the engine cover
    Great job there guys...
     
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    Uh-huh.
     
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    Haha , one of my customers has one already and dropped in today to show me what they should look like once fixed up, he bought mine as he has a rather large collection of trials bikes and dirt bikes , this one will get a full resto and be ridden in vintage comps , he also said his grand kids like the trials bikes as the seats are much lower.

    In and out within 24 hours

    I also picked up a husky wr300, @ShaneP has given me the rundown on costs to fix it up, and I am quite scared . anyone want to buy a slightly used kidney to help
    offset rhe costs of rebuilding it ?

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    Well you better flip that one too.
     
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    Murdo The Good Doctor Staff Member Contributing Member Ride and Events Crew

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    I bought a 2nd hand Husky TE449 a while back and had heaps of electrical problems so gave to my son and he got rid of it. My Maico is 38 years old and I've never had any problems with it. :party:
     
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    Can’t find a decent priced maico anymore , they are big $$$ bikes now

    I do need to find a decent trail bike for my son , he wants to go riding again, maybe a dr250 or similar
     
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    Or a KX500 :)
     
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    bought 2 fag front wheel bearings for the old honda.slipped the plastic side covers off and surprise had a good amount of lithium grease. topped up with nulon hi temp bearing grease and slipped side covers back on and fitted in wheel. murdo had said in earlier thread that skf had little grease. fag are made in korea.
     
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    There were a couple of xt225/250, both for $400, up here, which I forgot to mention...
     
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    Nothing... and probably wont this weekend now... looks like I will be spending a couple of hours trying to flood-proof the garage door.
    Massive storm on Thursday late afternoon...Hail damage to the Jeep (company care so doesnt really matter) and the Granny flat on the back of the garage has a heap of water go through it.. so much washing and drying of towels to mop it up.
    new lower garage door seal yesterday but another storm today and water got in again.. so I have been out.. bought some special rubber strip that needs to be glued to the concrete that the door seals on... that will lift the seal level another 15mm and should (touch wood) stop most if not all water coming through... crappy storm water drains cant cope with the water...grrrrr
    If I glue it down today I cant open the door for 24 hrs so that basically kills this weekend.. and I am in Melbourne Friday and Saturday next weekend... cant seem to get a decent run at this engine.
     
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    Wish you could bring your water up here.
     
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    Me too... that would take a lot of pressure of work wise... it is crazy right now with bores running dry or water levels dropping by anything up to 20 metres in the bigger / deeper bores...
     
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    Yes. My grandfather used to say that hungry cattle was sometimes unavoidable, but thirsty cattle was criminal.
     
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    Looking on the BOM map and it seems Moree, Coonabarabran, Walgett all got some rain... not sure how much and no matter how much it wouldnt be enough.. Gunnedah copped some as well but Tamworth missed out.. you guys need to do the nudie rain dance.. or is that the women??? maybe both.. but vertically... not horizontally.
     
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    I can be wrong be i think i read somewhere that you should leave about 30% of free space in the bearing, something to do with resistance or expansion of the grease under higher temperature. I'm sure the guys with more knowledge than me will correct me if i'm wrong (again) ;)
     
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    some space was left. if it oozes out will do no harm as will fill void behind separate outer seal.
     
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    Last week I bought some bikes off @amct77 , he did mention he had an rvf400 for sale and today we did the deal , I fitted a new battery and needed to replace the muffler as the beet one on there was shagged , I had an old carbon one off a fzr400 so I made a sleeve to fit it to the rvf headers, I am quite proud of that effort as it didn’t cost me anything.

    I managed to get my local bike shop to do a rwc and I am now at the dept of transport waiting to register the bike

    To say I am a little bit excited is an understatement , in fact a little bit of pee came out :)

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    put some bids in on a rz500 yammie and an rz350 yammie.
     
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    @kiffsta did you sell your CBR400? You did have an NC30 as I recall and you said you preferred the inline 4???
     
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    Yeah I sold my cbr400rr after the forum. Ride where it kept breaking down on @Frankster , I also sold my nc30 which I still regret , I loved the cbr400rr engine and overall feel, but after riding the nc35, I am convert for v fours.

    I keep wondering why I sold all these amazing bikes , but I guess 5 years ago, I was buying so many and they all just sat there not being used. at one point there was over 25 bikes in my garage, things got a bit crazy.


    Old verses new

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