ducatilover's squidtastic pile of crap

[bogan]

Sounds pretty good. Where do ya buy ya nuts and bolts online?

http://www.bearingandengineering.co.nz/

Only NZ place that has prices I've seen, and cheaper than the places I've paid cash at. You can also ask them to get in stuff they don't have if you need it.

[banditrider]

http://www.bearingandengineering.co.nz/

Only NZ place that has prices I've seen, and cheaper than the places I've paid cash at. You can also ask them to get in stuff they don't have if you need it.

Cheers, might try and find some fairing screws. Just gotta work out what they are...

[ducatilover]

I used totaltrade.co.nz this time, cheap as chips...sort of.

Made the indicator and tail light mount today, took a picture, took another crappy video

Undertail and dash glory pics.
Just need to make them all pretty now

[imdying]

I use tastynuts.com (yeah yeah, it's a real site!).... they sell Ti stuff

[avgas]

Sounds pretty good. Where do ya buy ya nuts and bolts online?

Or have a chat to Toebug on here. He has some goodies for sale via NZStreetfighters including bolts, nuts and Koso goodies.

[ducatilover]

I use tastynuts.com (yeah yeah, it's a real site!).... they sell Ti stuff

Yeah... that sounds legit lol

Or have a chat to Toebug on here. He has some goodies for sale via NZStreetfighters including bolts, nuts and Koso goodies.

Good to know!

[bogan]

I use tastynuts.com (yeah yeah, it's a real site!).... they sell Ti stuff

It just redirects to probolt, maybe tastynuts is more memorable?

[ducatilover]

I'm being a little pedantic again, so no real progress

Got in to the garage at 7:30 this morning (yes I like to be in the garage, very therapeutic blah blah, good when you're a bit mad)
Was looking at the engine covers on the bike and though I better fix/ind the oil leak.
Turns out it's the rocker cover, so, what does Doug do?
He removes the:
Radiator
Oil cooler
Headers
Oil lines
Drops the oil, removes filter
Drops the sump for cleaning...
Cleans the motor with a rag, the tooth brush
Cleans all the copper washer in the oil lines, then throws them away.
Go on to the webbernet and order, oil filter, rocker cover gasket, oil line o-rings, sump gasket, all washers for the oil lines and I've put new o-rings on the fron coolant pipes in the head/block (again...)

Going to re-paint the radiator after flushing it, grab a new waterpump o-ring, or install the polished ZZR400 water pump and paint the headers.
Might as well check the valves again, only did that 3000km ago... and the tensioner (I have a spare polished one too!)
Better paint the calipers again...

No signs of valve stem seal leakage in the ports either


My madness is getting worse! I should just ride the fucking thing

One must note that none of this has anything to do with the rocker cover, to get that out you just pop the tank off

[ducatilover]

The sump had some tasty bits in it...
A few bits of shit that looked like woven fabric, I'm assuming it was tiny strands of the original stator insulation.
A and a small amount of swarf type crap, nothing too serious. (being a ZZR it'll be the dogs on 2nd gear...)
So I cleaned it, twice.
Cleaned the oil pump screen, was fuckin' filthy
Cleaned out the oil lines to the cooler, cooler is soaking at the moment, so hopefully that'll be mint inside
So it's all nice and clean under there now, until I go near the road again.

Whilst I was under the bike, I cleaned the shock linkages, and found something awesome. It's a later model shock (How I never noticed is beyond me) it has the damping adjuster underneath it, so maybe I can get something resembling a pliant ride from it...?
I've had the shock off before to paint the spring, so I'm fucked if I know how that went unseen.

[ducatilover]

Going to rebuild my spare water pump,
Got the original off and it has shitty seals and the bearings and carbon seal were...roooooooted.
Tapped the shaft out and the outer bearing collapsed, balls all over everything!!! (How teh ladies looove it)
The oil seal obv failed and the center between the bearings was full of oil, so the bearings have had it (they're sealed...well, were)

Fun times! Moar dosh to spend

[ducatilover]

Bearings are $3.20 ea for stainless 2RS puppies, oil seal is around the $5 mark, if anyone is needing a ZZR400K/N or 600D/E pump rebuild, I'll do it

Pulled the spare pump apart, bearings have seen better days, I think that motor had 74,000km so no surprises, but it was perfectly dry, no signs of leaking past the seals.

The impeller shaft is mint too, measures a wee bit bigger and more consistent than the original (which is properly rooted looking)
Parts should be in teh mail tomorrow.

[ducatilover]

I slightly accidentally pulled it apart, so we needed at least one pic eh?



VHT flame proof (lol yeah right) headers/link pipe , cheap shit black oil cooler mount


Hmm, I'm at it again. Water pump cover, new vs old



Water pump pulled apart.

[Geeen]

Did the Ginny see the surgery on the Dougazaki and decide to throw up ???

[ducatilover]

Did the Ginny see the surgery on the Dougazaki and decide to throw up ???

Almost mate
Headlight is off the Ginny because I'm doing an H4 conversion, if it works I shall do it to the 600 also

[ducatilover]

I've managed a small amount of progress I'll get pics if this bad weather fucks off, otherwise I'll take 'em in the rain

I'm toying with the idea of a small bikini fairing, so might mock one up this afternoon

What I've done:
Water pump rebuild/cover polished
Cleaned everything
New sump gasket
Oil pump screen cleaned
Sump cleaned
Headers painted black
New front loom for the speedo, had a short when full lock left
Headlight is now block, top triple is black and the clip ons are black
Oil line o-rings and washers replaced.
Oil line/cooler washers replaced
Water pipes to block/head cleaned out and replace o-rings (again, why not?)
Got rid of the hazard light switch and a few wires here and there by using the back half of the 600 switch block (currently using 400 ones)
Clutch switch gone, useless thing that it...I know if I'm in gear


To do this week:
Mock up bikini fairing
Oil/filter
148 jets
Vinyl wrap front guard for a giggle
finish trimming the under tail
Make manometer and sync carbs
Valve clearances



Undecided on running a belly pan again, will post pics with and without it and I'd like to hear peoples ideas