Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

A useful tip I learned in my studies for testing stators.

Along with the usual resistance and AC voltage output checks, an insulation check will reveal a problem when it otherwise tests OK.

What you do is use a battery, a headlight globe, and a meter in series with the stator and test for insulation breaks as normal, between phases and from phases to earth. If the globe lights up you have a short.

This is a good test because most meters will only apply about 1.5-3 volts and hardly any current, using a battery and globe means it will pull a few amps and light up the globe if there is a short. The globe is there as an indicator, and so you don't up a full battery's worth of amps through your electrical system if there is a short.

 

So this happened! They are breeding

 

1990 KX?

 

97

 

bought a gsx-r 250 suzuki.

 

:-O

Its all lies without pics

 

It's true

He bought my GSXR250

 

Is that the whole set John ?
Fzr250, zxr250, cbr250rr and a gsxr250

 

yes

 

Now you can start collecting the two strokes.

 

Well I got married and bought a brand new bike. Things change!

Today I was working on an XT600E with a misfiring problem. After overhauling the YDIS carb and replacing the inlet manifolds it ran worse. As the miss was on throttle open and not overrun I suspected an electrical problem. My boss suspected a problem with my carb work. I was right 3x broken wires to the TCI.

 

would like a yd

another honda joining the stable soon.

 

Did some work on the drz400 today, I found some broken wires to the voltage reg and found the side stand switch wires cut.

I stripped and cleaned the carb, installed a new battery and fitted a new throttle assembly and handle bars. I also found the carb to airbox boot had holes in it so that will need to be replaced.

Will try and get a new plug for it tomorrow and will hopefully have a running bike. The good news is that there are heaps of spares on gumtree so it shouldn’t be too exy to fix the last few things

I have been doing the work at home,
I miss my tools at the shop

 

Yesterday was meant to be a day to work on my bikes; I did about 10mins work. But I did have a good time at the interruptions, went to baptism, had some interesting conversations, went bike riding (mountain bike riding: yuck to pedalling, but my fitness isn't too bad). Oh, and I'm buying a ZX-6R! Mostly because I don't fix the bikes I have.

 

It looks like that poor little SL125 has seen a lot of abuse over the years. You have really got to question the maintenance skills of some people.
The ZX-6R looks nice.

 

Drz400 runs with a new plug

 

Speaking of not fixing my bikes: I got the CBR 400 to start and run today! Needs a bit of work, still, so it is still a while to go.