Projects At Home During Lockdown

[F5 Dave]

That'll be it then.

[sidecar bob]

here is a photo of my bottom !

Thats a very nice bottom.
I've just come in from holding the ladder while my wife clipped the hedge, that was a nice bottom too.

[Grumph]

here is a photo of my bottom !

Have you got room for a well for the tap ? Can you reach it ?
I can recomend the plastic inline taps available from garden power tool shops. Amazingly durable.

[HenryDorsetCase]

here is a photo of my bottom !

You dont fuck around do you? Good stuff.

[HenryDorsetCase]

That'll be it then.

That is mint!

My PA was wearing a Joy Division T shirt at our skype meeting today. So I've been sharing a bit of that with the neighbours. Now on to Sisters of Mercy.

[jim.cox]

Today I sorted the one big lockdown project I have.

There are several big jobs on the list around here, but alas materials are not to hand.

But we have the tools and we can dig holes.

So we now have a line of post holes for a retaining wall along the edge of the drive.

Now waiting on posts, boards and concrete...

[Honest Andy]

That is mint!

My PA was wearing a Joy Division T shirt at our skype meeting today. So I've been sharing a bit of that with the neighbours. Now on to Sisters of Mercy.

Ahh Joy Division, I remember those days...
Personally I've got Jethro Tull "Living in the Past" on the turntable.
Seemed appropriate...

[sidecar bob]

Took the sump off the katana today, no bits in there at all.
A bit of black clutch fibre I'd guess, but no chunks to mention.
New oil & filter & hooked it up to a car battery & it fired right up straight away.
Only disappointment, home made o rings don't work.

[jellywrestler]

Took the sump off the katana today, no bits in there at all.
A bit of black clutch fibre I'd guess, but no chunks to mention.
New oil & filter & hooked it up to a car battery & it fired right up straight away.
Only disappointment, home made o rings don't work.

how do you start up an old Zook, i find it best to take off oil pressure plate and prime oil in there either via there or via the right oil gallery bung by the clutch cover, it frightens me to think of how long it takes oil to get to the head and cams when this whoe area has leaked back, worse still if a bikes ex aussie or hot tim shed and the oils is pretty much gone from the oil pump gears hence priming them.

[Bonez]

how do you start up an old Zook, i find it best to take off oil pressure plate and prime oil in there either via there or via the right oil gallery bung by the clutch cover, it frightens me to think of how long it takes oil to get to the head and cams when this whoe area has leaked back, worse still if a bikes ex aussie or hot tim shed and the oils is pretty much gone from the oil pump gears hence priming them.

I just placed the last one up against our fence comcrete edging, put on a fresh fully charged battery,new plugs, drained all the gas out of the carbs and replace it with 98 as it pinged on 91. Prime the carbs. Fresh oil and filter. Fired it up with full choke with a bit of throttle, the clutch unesiezed, held about half throttle for about a minute or so and let it setting into a fast idle(2000rpm or so) for a few minutes then close the choke to normal idle rpm then take it for a ride to the end of the col'dsac then back home to see what leaks/doesn't work properly..

[F5 Dave]

That is mint!

My PA was wearing a Joy Division T shirt at our skype meeting today. So I've been sharing a bit of that with the neighbours. Now on to Sisters of Mercy.

A mate had some gopro footage of concert in Auckland not too long back. Wasn't bad. All my stuff is on CD, but I had taped some from the radio back when RadioActive was a student radio worthy of the name.

[sidecar bob]

how do you start up an old Zook, i find it best to take off oil pressure plate and prime oil in there either via there or via the right oil gallery bung by the clutch cover, it frightens me to think of how long it takes oil to get to the head and cams when this whoe area has leaked back, worse still if a bikes ex aussie or hot tim shed and the oils is pretty much gone from the oil pump gears hence priming them.

I wound it over on the starter with plugs out until the oil light went off.
The battery was buggered & obviously I can't get another at the mo, so I used the brand new car battery that's kicking around the shed to eventually go in my 535i beemer.
I forgot just how good the four into one into two sounded.

[Grumph]

how do you start up an old Zook, i find it best to take off oil pressure plate and prime oil in there either via there or via the right oil gallery bung by the clutch cover, it frightens me to think of how long it takes oil to get to the head and cams when this whoe area has leaked back, worse still if a bikes ex aussie or hot tim shed and the oils is pretty much gone from the oil pump gears hence priming them.

The oil pressure sender at the back of the barrel on the big roller bearing Suzukis is actually a one way valve in the line to the head.
The plunger of the switch when pressure shuts down, comes down and shuts off the line above it.
Most aftermarket oil cooler takeoffs from this point keep the one way valve.

The Bucket and shim motors have quite big oil pockets around the buckets. Even engines stored for years will still have oill in those

Was i you, when reactivating one stored for a while, I'd simply pull the plugs and spin it over for a minute or so. If any of them don't have oil warning lights it's dead easy to put one on.
With functioning warning light, they seem to prime in about 5 seconds.

[pete376403]

The oil pressure sender at the back of the barrel on the big roller bearing Suzukis is actually a one way valve in the line to the head.
The plunger of the switch when pressure shuts down, comes down and shuts off the line above it.
Most aftermarket oil cooler takeoffs from this point keep the one way valve.

The Bucket and shim motors have quite big oil pockets around the buckets. Even engines stored for years will still have oill in those

Was i you, when reactivating one stored for a while, I'd simply pull the plugs and spin it over for a minute or so. If any of them don't have oil warning lights it's dead easy to put one on.
With functioning warning light, they seem to prime in about 5 seconds.

I'm about to (next day or two) spin up my GS1100GK for the first time since 2007. I am going to pull the cam cover and pour some oil in there but I'll be interested to see how much oil remains around the buckets.

[sidecar bob]

I'm about to (next day or two) spin up my GS1100GK for the first time since 2007. I am going to pull the cam cover and pour some oil in there but I'll be interested to see how much oil remains around the buckets.

Don't waste your time pulling the cam cover, unless it's for another reason.
Wind up oil pressure on the starter. It all gets to the important bits if you do that.
You will do no harm to it with plugs out & no load at starter rpm.