So, clutch is back together. Unfortunately... Reverse bleed technique applied to fill up the system, and start pumping the lever. Bubbles start...
That's a lot of breaks, and it's gonna take a lot of time to recover. All the best, kiddo.
The bits are here for the clutch. Took a while, given that it's intra-EU postal services all the way. They look to be correct at first glance,...
Slave cylinder and piston now cleaned. Lines flushed, unpleasant crud removed. New rubber mounted on the "go roundy roundy" bits that touch the...
So, I have clutch slave and master cylinder rebuild kits winging their way to me at the moment. But I still needed to get the slave cylinder...
And don't forget to leave a vent for the gases produced... Links? http://antique-engines.com/electrol.asp or even (although the "rust and muck...
Grrrrr. Master cylinder is now pumping reliably. Unfortunately, all it's pumping is air from where the lever goes in, I suspect the boot not...
I was skeptical, but it's, frankly, some sort of voodoo black magic science. For a petrol tank, it's easy. Remove the petcock and bung the hole,...
Master cylinder now makes pumpy pumpy squirty squirty. But seeing as we have one end off, and it's full-o-crap, might as well have the other end...
Hrm. And in today's "not very good news", I thought to myself "She's running, I'll take her for a quick spin." Being extremely careful on the...
I really don't like acid treatment on tanks. Or anything I care about, really. Electrolysis is far better, turning rust (and *only* rust) into a...
I'm fairly sure I'm not French, as it happens. I seem to remember being a blimey, living in stinky frogland :)
Yeah, definitely in the plan. I already did them before even trying to turn the motor over, as a part of making sure all the bits that are...
New battery arrived today, filled and charged, and she lives autonomously. Starts instantly (that said, it is 30°C at the moment :) Just waiting...
I suspect the battery is more dead from 15 years in the garage, uncharged, with temperatures ranging from +30°C to -30°C. It's had the epsom...
OK, she's alive. I was having fuel starvation issues, which were giving me the cold sweats about taking the damned carbs off again, but I had a...
Here's my ride. 1999 Sunn "Urge" frame, modded for disk brakes, retro formula hubs and disks laced to XC717 rims, 80mm Manitou Skareb forks, KS...
Meanwhile, the forks are slammed, which was surprisingly easily done without cutting anything (and thus easily reversible). They have 3 springs -...
So, the kick I found was for a 15mm shaft. The Yam has an 18mm shaft. With an "unorthodox" mounting, due to the fact I have no 4-jaw chuck, it's...
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