Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

Nice work Andy. The Blown VW Drag bike would be Rick Thornley's old top fuel bike. I think that bike originally belonged to Stan Pobjoy. Blown VW powered bikes were popular back in the day. A nice piece of nostalgia there. The guy should sell it to someone and let them run it! Nothing worse than history sitting around gathering dust.

 

Plan to start the Honda soon, so need to do a bit of wiring. Started on the RH handlebar switch. cleaned all the contacts with a scotchbrite and attached new wires. I will put a relay in the ignition coil circuit so no need for heavy gauge wire. Have to get some plastic primer next and see if I can give the switch bodies a new paint job.

 

How are those nutserts removed? I have a frame & swingarm where they wont tighten, just spins around.

 

You need to either drill them out or use a carbide burr in a dremel to grind/cut them enough to remove, you might lose it inside the frame if it's boxed tube too.

Have you tried tightening them ?
Screw a high tensile bolt with a nut wound down the thread a bit into the nutsert with a washer inbetween the nut and nutsert so there's about 10mm of thread screwed in, then do the nut up tight against the nutsert.
The way they're fitted is similar to a pop rivet, so the nutsert is compressed into the hole.
Some nutsert's have a smooth compression area so they dont grip as well


This is the better type

 

Drill out with the same size drill you used to put it in with. If it spins just hold the head with pliers/multi grips.

 

I haven't gotten much done lately, like for 2 months! However, I've picked up a couple of extra bikes and such.. Most of the stuff I've been doing has been on KDX200s (I do have 4 of them), trying to sort some to sell - 4 might be more than I need. The H model is an American import, not registerable, so I'm preparing it for sale. Engine got rebuilt, frame got paint (subframe black, sprayed with a degreaser gun from one of those cheap kits), got steering bearings and linkage bearings to fit, in the middle of a front brake clean up (the rotor is hollowed, too), and I'm sure there'll be surprises to come...

 

I'm too lazy to find the thread about plastics restoration, so I will post it here. I keep getting told about heat gun for powdery, oxidised plastic, so I tried it on the tank of an old KDX, but I don't have a heat gun. So I used a propane torch - I had seen it used for machined Perspex. The plastic must be clean and don't overdo it, better if you remove some of the powdered plastic if it's really bad.

 

Carb clean and a basic service on the V90 today followed by an espy cruise. She's been off the road since 2013!

 

Cleaned both carbs on the RD250G,now running mint just need some new fuel lines tomorrow and it's time for a hills bash!