I Bought another one - Honda CBR250RRL

A little more progress today, the new muffler and H bar are on, I started on the brakes, the brake fluid was rusty mush so the calipers are off, the master cylinder has been drained of all excess fluid. I think I might pop down and buy some caliper paint and give them a coat of paint before reassembly.

I will pop the pistons out tomorrow and see how ordinary the seals and pistons are.

 

Don't you have another donor bike handy or are the brakes different???

 

The new petcock arrived today, I ended up buying a chinese one for $19.50 delivered as the OEM ones from Honda are $175 new, I have used Chinese ones in the past and found the actual plastic lever to be useless, so I bought one to suit a VTR250 which has a shorter handle and should work okay, if it doesn't, I can always buy an OEM lever from Xcitebikes as they sell them without the actual petcock.

http://xcitebikes.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&path=1_1002_100215&product_id=2015

 

I decided the old girl needed some attention, she was sitting forlorn in the corner for months. Since I bought the white MC22 I haven't really had a need for it, so its either part it out or reassemble and sell her, I think the 2nd option is a better one as it hopefully keep another one on the road.

Tonight, I pulled the front wheel off and replaced the brake disks as the ones it arrived with were very rusty, I made sure they were locktited then refit the front wheel to the bike. As I was putting the axle through, she slipped off the stand onto my foot.... now that hurt. mental note to self, wear shoes when working in the garage.

I then installed the petcock and fitted the tank to the bike, I then put the rear panels on, fitted the nose cone and mirrors so she started to look like a complete bike again.

Jobs to do :
I need to clean the front calipers, fit the new pads and bleed them
Install the new side stand switch
Fit new pads to the rear and bleed them
find a few missing screws...

then she will go up on Gumtree as a cheapy project.

 

Wanna swap for me spare zxr?....

 

Not really

 

Damn. Can't blame a guy for trying lol. Good luck with the sale, it'd make an easy track convert as well.

 

I was actually going to ask you about his bike...

 

Great job!, you must be happy with that.

 

so what happened to this one in the end mate??

 

Smeone offered me a big bag of money for the wheels (more than I paid for the bike) so I stipped it, Tim helped me fit the engine went into the tri colour I had, now some of the parts are going onto Phils bike or made their way onto my grey one.

 

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh well now i get it