Pedro!'s rebuilding projects

[Pedrotq]

A continuation of the continued ................

[Pedrotq]

Fits nicely

Have to sand blast and paint her one day, just before I fit it.

The only fault I found is the little tail on the rear makes it a little hard to slide the shockies on, so I need to undo the right shockies first, but I dint want to remove it as it might compromise the brackets integrity as there aint much meat holding the shockie ear on.

Today I hope to fit the Dyna ignition to the #2 project, the coils need to have at least 3 Ohm's resistance on the primary windings, I tested my spares and three have 3 Ohms and two have 1.5 Ohms, they are all GL-1500 coils, so now I have to dismantle the false tank and check what I have on my machine.

Happy & Safe Riding to Everyone, Peter.

[Easter]

Maybe shorter shocks would have been simpler (but not as cool!).

[HOTT]

I'm gona keep the words to a minimum and agree with Liam.
Craftsman.

good stuff
HOTT

[5speed]

love reading your build thread and seeing what you come up with and build next..

[ericheath]

I see said the blind man to his deaf daughter who was playing the piano by ear!! First set I have seen with a way of tying the bracket so it isn't swivelling upward should you hit a bump and go airborne. Apparently the brain works differently when you're south of the equator.

[Pedrotq]

G'day to Everyone!

Many thanks for the terrific comments, they give me more drive to continue modifying things

Actually I am going to fit the shortened shockies too.

Back to #2

Fitted the Dyna ignition, it went on perfectly, but I had big trouble starting the old lady, just cranked over and over with just a grunt now and then .......... .......... then I activated the left pair of choke butterflies and she started firing, once running (roughly) I released it and slowly she came to life.

I completely removed the chokes on both the GL-1500 and the Valkyrie and have no trouble starting them, probably as they have electronic ignition modules controlling timing. so out come the carbs to refit the choke mechanism.

Went for a ride just around the block, then two blocks (I don't want to break down far away from home), eventually I was going round several suburbs, she is still rough as guts under 2500 rpm but fine above, feeling good for myself I stopped in at the local bottle shop and acquired a couple of boxes of Pale Ale, I got close to home and she started to splutter badly and I only just got home I am wildly guessing that any crap in the fuel tank has blocked the fuel filter (an easy fix) but I will find out today.

Happy and Safe Riding to All, Peter.

[Pedrotq]

G'day to All,

well I found no crap anywhere, the fuel filter was squeaky clean, but #1 & #2 plugs were all sooty

I refitted the choke mechanism so she will start easier.

I also noticed that the 78 carbs have a shorter Aluminium needle in them but unfortunately I only have 3 spare as I gave one away to help a buddy to get his machine going. the ones in my machine are the longer Brass ones.

The engine is a 76, but I put a 78 crank, camshafts, timing advancer and carbs on to get the torque lower for tugging the chair about.

Hmmm, what to do ............ I will add a washer under the head of the needle and machine the hat down to keep the same thickness.

[Pedrotq]

She started first time

but still runs rough, I guess I will have to mess with the mixture screws again, I reset them all back to 1&1/2 turns out as per the book.

Checked the synch and she looked fine.

I will play with her over the weekend.

Happy and safe riding to everyone, Peter.

[Pedrotq]

Well here I am again, Sunday and my last day of parole

After finding things wrong with the #2 carbie set I decided to remove and strip down the #1 carbs, everything was as they should be except for the over generous amounts of rubber grease that I used on assembly that have turned into treacle a quick washout and they are ready for assembly.

I wanted to sandblast my #1 muffler in a home made booth as my one is too small for such large objects, but I found (I already knew) that my compressor is not adequate for the job, I need to step up a few models to get the required output. mine is good for pumping up tyres and footballs.

Have to go for a ride today and also test the sidecar out and probably tweak the mixture screws a few times.

Happy and safe riding to All, Peter.

[Easter]

Now that is a really cool use of the chemical "tote". I have several lying around the shop (plant) and can snag one for a blasting booth. Thanks for the idea.

[Pedrotq]

G'day to All,

I am glad that I have ideas that others think are good too

Got home last night from a wonderful week in Paradise, my first day is just lazing about and become human again

Decided to modify a damaged front fender for my #5 project, the rear end of it still wobbles a bit and I might not have been too accurate drilling the new holes, but this is all "Research & Development" as I will do it more carefully when it comes time for the "Real Thing" (Russell Morris, one of my favourite songs).

I have assembled #5 just to see what she will look like, there is no crank, pistons or anything else in the motor, just the outer covers and I plan on carving the seat down heavily.

[Pedrotq]

Ok! so I am a perfectionist most of the time, ....... but there comes a time that a bodgey job will do until I get the time and enthusiasm to fix the problem correctly (if at all)

After stripping the #1 carbs down to double check that the jets are all in correctly (and to wash away that horrible Rubber Grease that I used too liberally quite a while ago) I was assembling them and using my new to me torque screwdriver (should have bought one years ago).

I was tightening up the bowl screws and set my driver to 20 Kgf-cm (which is below the recommended 22.5 for SS screws into Aluminium), but I still managed to strip two screws

Now I remember that the clown before me used wood screws in the carbs

Oh well, what to do

I remember a few weeks back when I was dismantling the carbs from the #5 and all the bowl screws were odd-ball ones

So I checked them out more closely

The standard bowl screw is an M4 x 0.7mm .......... the odd-ball ones were 5/32 x 32 tpi

So I tried one of these screws in my stripped bowl holes and they screwed in snugly and torqued down nicely.

I know this is not the correct remedy but it will get you out of a fix one day until a proper cure can be done

Happy & Safe Riding to All, more updates tomorrow (I hope) Peter.

[robin1731]

Time-sert.

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[Liam]

I agree with Robin on the Time Serts