Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

Back in my day Viton was always Brown or Violet.. Violet was mostly used with Skydrol (Synthetic brake fluid).
This was in the Aircraft industry in the 70's.. last 2 years of my apprenticeship was in the Hawker de Havilland Hydraulic shop.
You will find most valve seals in Viton are brown as well.
I guess going with standardised colour makes it easier to use different suppliers etc without having to pay for colour changes etc etc..either way the LiteTek product is the best on the market.. regardless of colour.

 

Mostly kdx200 stuff, but I do have 4 of them. Turns out the 2 old bikes that had sat around for who knows how long, do run. I had to borrow a KX125 flywheel and stator, CDI and coil off the later KDX, but they fired up. Already sold a motor out of one before I even started it. The question is: which of the other 3 don I keep?... First world problems.

 

After checking the dimensions on my blast cabinet I realized the Bunnings dolly wouldn’t work so I grabbed 2 of the Aldi units... now I need to get the 75 x 75 uprights (Bunnings) and then screw it all together, plus make my own cyclone and maybe find a smaller less powerful vacuum...or put a regulating valve in the vacuum line so the gloves don’t stand out straight when the vacuum is on...
I might look at Jaycar for a simple motor speed controller as well...that way I can slow down the vacuum for a neater solution...

 

dropped the cbx and broke a mirror. now 125 $ poorer.just moving it in the shed.as i get older it gets heavier.lol.

 

Had to cancel selling the KDX engine, discovered the gear shifter is bent, and the other was near bald on the spline. That was the part he most needed. Oh well. And I bought parts for the KDXs, too.

 

Had a quick look down the plug hole of the SRX engine and she is nicely polished and looks to have plenty of clearance.
Looks like I will do the top end on it. Reco’d head and my original barrel with stock piston ( honed ) and new rings.






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Finally collected my CB250 from Dubbo... well from a property 30km North of Dubbo. Put it on the trailer after looking at all his interesting bikes, Cars, multiple Kombi's in various stages of either repair or disrepair.. not quite sure which it was to be honest.
He did have an absolute Cherry CB400 exhaust which I have made him an offer on.. hopefully he decides to sell it to me
He also had an old Drag bike.. (should interest @Frankster ) that is fitted with a Supercharged VW motor... I will try to find some more details on that.. it used to run pretty hard a Castlereagh Drags apparently and when it closed they parked the bike in a shed..
Anyway.. I had a slight issue when a strap broke while I was still about 20km from Dubbo.. lucky it was on the back and I saw it brake while glancing in the rear mirrors... I jury rigged that till I could get to Bunnings at Dubbo to buy some more..
Firmly strapped down (4 straps in all) the rest of the trip was a doddle..
Its interesting.. I initially thought I was buying a G5 CB250 but... my investigations since I got home show it to be a K5.. not that there is a great deal of difference really.






Here it is parked up beside its big Sister the CB400 (with a spare motor)

 

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

 

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 got around to whipping the rocker cover off the $10 CB360 motor after taking the Boss out for a nice Valentines dinner
So apart from getting the Points cover and points backing plate, it looks like the rocker arms on this one are still in pretty good condition.. as are the cam lobes... cant say the same for the bearings though.
The cam coming from the USA has good bearing surfaces from the pics so I might get away with it all.. the other good thing is the valves are still in the head.. the springs have a little surface rust on the exhaust side but they should clean up ok... so far this $10 + $32 freight engine has saved me approx $250 in used parts that are hard to find... if nothing else is salvageable I am pretty happy.. who knows what the gearbox will be like (identical between 250G5 and 360G5/ T). I wont know that for a while as I need to get the SRX finished...

I might need to pull a few bits off both engines and send them up to @kiffsta for some Water blast loving... It is easy to pack up the bits and send of via E-go Couriers..