Fast Eddie's Aprilia RS250 rebuild & restore

[057rxz]

good shit bro!!! respect for keeping the 2t alive...

[Fast Eddie]

as for cleaning, depends what exactly you are cleaning. Start off with a Kero bath, soak the shit for a while, scrub, rinse and repeat a couple times, and see where you are at after that.

yea will give it a go. Am just really cleaning the cylinders and power valves eh. basically the exhaust system, from exhaust port out of cylinder/combustion chamber, through the port, the power valves, to the exhaust opening and I want to even clean up the exhausts as well.. wondered if I could just fill them with something let it soak then tip it out a few times or if I would have to cut them in half, clean then weld back together..

If its safe I guess I could just fill a tub with kero and leave the cylinders and exhaust valves sitting in there for hours? any one have any reason not to do this? might eat or destroy something?

[Fast Eddie]

good shit bro!!! respect for keeping the 2t alive...

haha, Churr bro

hopefully be done by end of winter and then will be looking for another to build.. quite like the TZ/TZR250's or maybe anything bigger.. shit an 400/500cc road 2 stroker would be a mint project.. haha dreams eh?

[gatch]

yea will give it a go. Am just really cleaning the cylinders and power valves eh. basically the exhaust system, from exhaust port out of cylinder/combustion chamber, through the port, the power valves, to the exhaust opening and I want to even clean up the exhausts as well.. wondered if I could just fill them with something let it soak then tip it out a few times or if I would have to cut them in half, clean then weld back together..

If its safe I guess I could just fill a tub with kero and leave the cylinders and exhaust valves sitting in there for hours? any one have any reason not to do this? might eat or destroy something?

Plug the end of the exhaust up and fill it with petrol ? Or kero. Or something. Mmmm, something.

[Geeen]

Jealous!! I wish I had a shed and bike like that to keep me away from KB

[tigertim20]

its an engine, it has petrol exploding and shit inside it, kero isnt going to fuck it, and youll be replacing gaskets etc anyways.

[hayd3n]

A new sight glass would be easier ??

not for the price

[gatch]

not for the price

Get a piece of glass cut ? A piece of polycarbonate ? A glass out of another bike from the wreckers ?

More than one way to skin a cat..

[Fast Eddie]

Plug the end of the exhaust up and fill it with petrol ? Or kero. Or something. Mmmm, something.

yep - will give it a go and report back.. I guess I will need to scrub too - wishful thinking that it will just soak and fall off haha..

[Fast Eddie]

its an engine, it has petrol exploding and shit inside it, kero isnt going to fuck it, and youll be replacing gaskets etc anyways.

yea too true, and yea no more gaskets left I've disassembled everything and have a full set of gaskets for entire engine. She will be a tight at the end

[Fast Eddie]

behold!

cleaned cylinders and managed to get stuck screws out with lots of heat and impact driver. Flagged taking them back to the engineers since they had the cyls for like 3/4 weeks and did nothing with them so I just took em home and got the bits out I needed to. Still have to get the water spigots out but have found some cheap bench vices will grab one then give it a go.

cleaned both cyls up in prep for the final work to be done on them and then reassembly heres a before/after comparison photo:

[Fast Eddie]

put bits all back together. still got a fair bit of scrubbing to go to get into all the final little bits, gonna replace all the hardware to nice new chrome items - stuck it together just to see what we are looking like/deciding whether to do the heads black or leave unpainted. deciding on red or unpainted for cylinders and engine sidecovers, a gun metal grey color I was thinking, or red or black..

here she is at the mo unpainted but with some little detailing

[Kickaha]

deciding on red or unpainted for cylinders and engine sidecovers, a gun metal grey color I was thinking, or red or black..

Red? you're gay enough to own a Honda, oh thats right I forgot you already do

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[Fast Eddie]

haha yea..

black cyl heads, red NGK spark plug caps, chrome hardware and gunmetal grey sidecovers.. crankcases/cyls can stay unpainted I recon.. It will show the oil up easier when it starts leaking or failing

[tigertim20]

haha yea..

black cyl heads, red NGK spark plug caps, chrome hardware and gunmetal grey sidecovers.. crankcases/cyls can stay unpainted I recon.. It will show the oil up easier when it starts leaking or failing

you missed out on a good ride today - a new dude turned up on a blade that looks to be the same as yours