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Engine before dismantling

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Swingarm mods

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Coming together

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I'd like to have it finished by Easter, for nothing else to rid in a few Vinduros. I may evnen take it up to CD6 along with the RM250B you may see in the background

PMC57

[Colin Jay]

Well, I finally got my "new" XT500 finished, and registered for the road thanks, to a small injection of funds from Team Kevin Rudd Racing.



I spent the weekend fitting the new tyres payed for with the sponsorship dollars, and sorting out the 38mm Mikuni carbie.  I still have a few bugs to work out to get the carbie setup spot on, but it is good enough to start riding and putting some miles on the newly rebuilt engine before the first round of the Reliability Trail Series, the Gawler 6hr in two weeks time.

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[frostype400]

whats the go with the light are you going to use it to run down small animals like the pips good looking bike tt's and xt's thanks Michael.

[JC]

PMC
What tank are you going to use? Std XL-S tank? (Not many others fit that weird frame style)

[LWC82PE]

Michael, in SA we have events that run into the night, therefore the need for better lighting. Havent your heard of the 24 Hour trial?

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JC
Yes I'll be using the original tank, I did get hold of a Malcome Smith plastic tank circa 1975 but it just won't fit proper enough so it's back to the std tank. I didn't really want to use the original steel tank for fear of damaging it. I'm having it panel beated and painted as we speak so hopefully the bike will be ready to ride in the very near future, just waiting on the tank. I'll be taking it to CD6 along with my RM250B.

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PMC,

Its a nice project. I have a simliar one in mind, w similar swingarm mods (tho I'm using an 82 mono swingarm & rear wheel), but styled along the lines of the early ATKs w their colour scheme.

Have you tho't of trying a plastic XR tank? An XR200 tank is a reasonble fit on my frame, but a bit short & needs the std seat foam reshaped at the front to look 'at home'. To my mind they're a much nicer shape than the std XL-S tank (which I think are ugly)

I don't have one to try but the plastic XR500 tank may fit even better cos its longer & would fill up the space better. They're 2.4 US Gal whereas XR200 is 2 US Gal, so neither are too bulky.

Its a bit hard to see much of the detail in the pics, so any chance you could post a nice side-on pic of reasonable size & good lighting of where the project is up to now pls?

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JC
I would have liked a better shaped and ideally plastic tank like the ones off the XR's, but not knowing what would fit or not I wasn't too keen on just buying anything and hoping for the best.
The fit with the seat was another issue as I'd already had it recovered so whatever tank I use would have to fit the seat I have. Add all these together and I just thought go with the tank I have.

I'd like to be able to post some more user friendly pics, but I still struggle to post pics because of the size reduction requirement. Those that are on were with the help of my teenage daughter, I realised later that you can't open them up any bigger, sorry about that.
The bikes all but finished except for the tank and side covers, can't wait to get the tank back and have a ride to see how it handles the mods to the front and rear.

[LWC82PE]

there seems to be a lot of people having trouble figuring out how to re-size photos to get them on the forum. Do we have a how to on re-sizing photos