After a few weeks wait, minor hiccups & a slightly lightened wallet, I picked the head of the ZXR up today from the engineer's
So all going to plan, within a couple of days it will bark back into life & be ready to rock n roll again
After a few weeks wait, minor hiccups & a slightly lightened wallet, I picked the head of the ZXR up today from the engineer's
So all going to plan, within a couple of days it will bark back into life & be ready to rock n roll again
All the best with the reassembly T.W.R.
Sounds like you'll be having some fun and spending quite a few hours over the next few nights in the garage.
90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.
we all like getting head, especially when it is such good head.
Tell us how the performance goes
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Congratulations mate! Can I shake ya hand? Looks nice and shiny...even better than a new one ! Hope it all goes well for ya
wot'd you get done to it?
"Fit a front tyre you love, and put something round & black on the back"Il Dottore
Cheers ppls
yeah an hour or 2 will be soaked up in the re-assemble, just have to do a static assembly 1st to do a shim check, then once thats done it should be all sweet.
Basically it soaked up close to $1500 with a good tidy-up of the important bits, total strip-down, crack test, HD valve-springs, guides, seals, mill etc.
Replaced a couple of dodgy valves and had the good ones reset & lapped.
its going to be good having the bike back on the road no more withdrawal symtoms
Say what? Harley Davidson parts in a mighty Kawasaki? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo....Originally Posted by T.W.R
p/t
Heyya T.W.R that head looks great! Let us know how she runs when you have got her back on the road!
Got most of it of it assembled, done the shim check (new ones arriving tomorrow )
heres a couple more pics ( the quality isn't to flash, its a pxt phone)
Well had another hiccup while sourcing the shims but they got here today (mix of genuine & precision shims) got a reasonable deal on them, kawasaki list price was $16-17each got the whole 16 shims for $160.
So the engine is assembled & ready to be slung into the frame tomorrow get all the vital fluids etc done and it should be running by early arvo, then I'm .
Now theres a ride report I'm looking forward to reading!
Good stuff, Bill....looking good !!!
Looking forward to seeing the whole lot when we get there at Easter.
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
:spudwave:
It Farkin goes people!! being christened on a bottle of Jimmie the old bitch fired into life just over an hour ago
and bar one small coolant leak on the front feed gallery, it fired up revved cleanly & held an idle
the bottles gone, the bike goes !
Congrats on getting her fired up !!!
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks