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Twinshock Trials / Re: Attempting to build a trials CT110 with grandkids

« on: February 18, 2019, 08:53:51 pm »

Aussie road racer Steve Martin started of riding trials as a junior before he started road racing, he did well in superbikes and has won a few Endurance racing world championships, so it didn't hurt him.

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Wanted / Re: Yamaha TT250/350 bash plate

« on: February 14, 2019, 09:40:43 pm »

The TT250/350 did really have a bash plate as standard. there was a pressed steel bracket "thingie" that was mounted between the frame rails to protect the sump area of the engine, and a set of engine case protection bars that provided some protection for the Clutch and Flywheel covers.

For some reason you dont find many of the engine case protection bars around, I dont know if it was a case of people taking them of so that they could get one of the engine covers off, then not bothering to refit them.

For the TT250 that I have, I made my own 5mm aluminium sump plate that bolts onto the same brackets as the original sump protection thingie, and was able to find a engine case protection bar on eBay.

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General Discussion / Re: Pressing out swing arm axle

« on: December 09, 2018, 09:32:41 am »

A few months ago I resorted to the hacksaw method to get the seized swingarm pivot out of my brothers 1978 KTM 400.

The brother had tried to remove the swingarm about 10 years ago to start restoration of the bike, but when he could't get the swingarm pivot bolt out (seized in the bearing tube) he gave up and the bike went back to it normal position in the back of his shed.

The brother had been able to get the pivot bole to move a few mm by use of brute force / extreme violence before he gave up. This made enough room for me to get a hacksaw blade between the frame and the end of the swingarm pivot. Because KTM pivot bolts are made of some really good steel, it took 2 hacksaw blades to cut through each end of the pivot bolt. Once the swingarm was free from the frame, the tube nuts on the end of the swingarm pivot tube (they are a KTM thing) were easily undone and the pivot tube just slide out of the bearings. Luckily, all the required part are still available, so I didn't even try to get the pivot bolt out of the bearing tube..

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Suzuki / Re: Suzuki K15 Trail 80 Year Model

« on: July 23, 2018, 10:04:03 am »

From oldjapanesebikes.com,
1965 frame from 335711
1966 frame from 367822

Thanks, I would say its a 1966 model then.

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Suzuki / Re: Suzuki K15 Trail 80 Year Model

« on: July 22, 2018, 05:58:00 pm »

Thanks,

The Frame ID tag gives the Model (K15), Capacity (79cc) Weight (75kg) and engine and frame numbers, thats all. As for rego history, the bike spent it life on a pastoral property in the Flinders Ranges and I would say was never registered. The woman who gave the bike to me had owned it since new, but could only remember getting it in the mid 1960's and that she  stopped riding it in 1975.

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Suzuki / Suzuki K15 Trail 80 Year Model

« on: July 22, 2018, 12:58:16 pm »

Hi All.

Yesterday I was given a mid 1960's Suzuki K15 Trail 80. I would like to know what exact year model it is. I have done some internet searching and not found much real info on this model, have just been able to find out that they were made from 1965 to 1967. Bike requires premix fuel ( Posilube oil injection was fitted to the K15P from 1967?).  Frame Number is 372674

TIA

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Honda / Re: XL250 Exhaust identification

« on: March 26, 2018, 09:11:04 am »

Going by the muffler shape and the shape of the baffle / exhaust outlet I would say that it is a J & R exhaust. I had a J & R on my SR500 Yamaha back in the early 1980's and the muffler and baffle looked pretty much the same as the one in your pictures.

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General Discussion / Re: Media beat ups

« on: February 20, 2018, 05:07:59 pm »

   How would you like to be in the trenches with our prime minister ( Mr potato head ) as soon as there was any pressure, he folds and throws his mate to the wolves, hardly a Winston Churchill type is he...
   Zane

I would not be so keen on putting Churchill on a pedestal. You need to remember that the Gallipoli Campaign was one of his ideas. Yes, he did later spend time on the Western Front after being sacked / resigning from his position of First Sea Lord, and he did an admirable job during WW2, but at Gallipoli Australian and New Zealand troops were pretty much "thrown to the wolves".

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General Discussion / Re: So I have managed to save my whole neighborhood with reverse Karma

« on: February 18, 2018, 10:09:54 am »

How about using Aldi fans blowing  on to  a wind turbine , Colin ?     Jokes aside , I did play with that a few years ago . Bought a 10 KVA  3 phase . First black out I eagerly turned it on . The Plasma TV started smoking and a few other appliances as well . Had to replace all the power supplies in the TV , motherboard in the fridge etc . I learned that not all genis are compatible . LOL. Since then a mate offered me one of those big enclosed units at a good price with low hours ,  powered by a 35 HP Diesel  delivering a steady 12 KW/H per phase . Took a bit of sorting ,(3 way switch set up )  but now it works nice and com s  on automatically  . Just have to remember to start it up once a month . I thought of connecting it to a battery trickler first , but I think starting up monthly , is good for the engine as well .

We tried that with K-Mart fans Walter but couldn't get enough fans to make enough wind to move the WTG rotor which weighed over 47 tonne.

While working on the wind farms as a High Voltage Operator, part of our maintenance routines was to start up the emergency generators at the substations and let them run for at least 1 hour. The hard part was putting enough load onto the generator, as running them without load isn't that good for the diesel prime mover. The last substation that I operated actually had an Auto-Run program that would start the generator at 0800 on the second Tuesday of the month and have it run for 1 hour.

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General Discussion / Re: So I have managed to save my whole neighborhood with reverse Karma

« on: February 17, 2018, 10:45:22 am »

I bought ALDI’s solar panels. Not worth a pinch of goat poo.
 Lost power tonight so I unfolded the panels and not a damn spark, nuttin
.Moonlight, sunlight its still in the sky I thought.  Someone should put that on the instructions.
Maybe I should have bought the genny.

What you need is a really big generator and a whole heap of Mega watt floodlights to shine on the solar panels. That should make them generate enough power to power a 60 bulb in the house.

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Tech Talk / Re: Fox Air Shox Parts

« on: January 22, 2018, 03:54:20 pm »

Thanks guys,

A follow on question?

What oil should I use in them?

The manual says 5w suspension fluid  Belray LT-100, but Belray nolonger list this oil. What oil does everyone use?

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Tech Talk / Fox Air Shox Parts

« on: January 22, 2018, 10:09:07 am »

Can anyone recommend a source for part for Fox Air Shox. One of mine is starting to weep from the seal and if I am going to have to replace the seal, I might as well do a full rebuild of both shocks. Just need to find a source for the parts.

Thanks all.

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Husqvarna / Re: Tapered Steering Head Bearing for ML Series Frame

« on: January 03, 2018, 12:39:49 pm »

Thanks all, for your time.  I will go and see the local bearing joint and get a set of the Timken bearings.

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Husqvarna / Re: Tapered Steering Head Bearing for ML Series Frame

« on: January 02, 2018, 06:54:50 pm »

I have had a look at the Steering bearing size chart om the All Ball web site, but none of the part numbers listed on the chart correspond to the kit number 22-1032, and the description of the kit doesn't list what the part number of the actual bearings are.

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Husqvarna / Re: Tapered Steering Head Bearing for ML Series Frame

« on: January 02, 2018, 02:18:04 pm »

Thanks, BigK,

I just looked up the bearings suggested and they are imperial bearings, I would have expected a Husky to have metric sized bearings?