Project RM - a true story inspired by Kro.

[telliman]

dude, you should get some more sheet metal and make a little roof as well, and then take off your bars and chuck on a steering wheel! that would look mean.

[cheese]

how about you do that to your one first.

[Sketchy_Racer]

KDX is on its way.

I made some new suspension bushes at work yesterday.

They seem ok, and give really really smooth movement in the linkages.

[kro]

Dude, the KDX is looking very sharp, what did you clean the swingarm and cylinder with?. They look very clean and shiny.

Cheese, where you up to buddy?, it's my turn to bug you for updates

[Sketchy_Racer]

haha,

I found a tub of elbow grease lying around..... thought i better use it up.

Seriously. The swingarm got paint stripped. bead blasted and a paint job.

The engine got a good couple of hours with a scotch brite.

You should see my fingers...... I mean stubs.

[Sketchy_Racer]

KDX is almost done.

What do ya think of the YZF side cover ( Dads YZF can go without )

( sorry cheese to steal your thread for a moment.... )

[cheese]

I've been at U2 this weekend and I had family up here, my weekend has been pretty full on. My mate is coming up next weekend and it keen to go out so I might have to hurry up and pull finger. I've got most of teh bits here an the radiators are sorted so I might see what I can do this week. I might crack onto the frame now. I'm very keen on having a sleep though.

[cheese]

Ok SO I cleaned all teh rust of with my dremel (love that thing!!!!!!) and coated it with some CRC zinc spray and one coat of top coat. I'm really happy with how it is looking.

Light grey is teh zinc spray, dark is teh proper Suzuki grey for my year.

[kro]

Dude, mint pictures, she's gonna be a pearler !!!!. Great work.

[Ghost Lemur]

Did you bake the frame, or use some other method to make it chip resistant?

One of the things which is occuping my thoughts most about my up coming project is, while it's easy to make a pretty bike. It's harder to make a bike pretty that wont detoriate and look like shit after the first ride. With a road bike it's not so difficult. But with an dirt/dualsport bike that is likely to get pummled by gravel, scrap over and fall on rocks and logs, even probably go swimming. It therefore has to be strong enough to take the beating and as easy as possible to clean.

[kro]

A cheap bake oven, is available to most people over summer. Throw the painted item in the back seat of your sedan, or rear of the stationwagon on a hot day, with the windows up.

I know this sounds crude, but it works, and can help with the proper curing of your paint if you can't afford to have it done properly.

[Brian d marge]

Your not the only one with bikes in bits ,,,,,,,,

Stephen

[cheese]

That looks liek a nice new clutch.

[Brian d marge]

Old clutch , put together carefully ...I sat down and worked my way through ALL of the Cr range of clutches , they change the wire diameter of the clutch spring and make it slightly longer ,,,

Soo I will order some crf springs ( 06, 07) and use those

The other thing is the routing of the clutch cable ,,, I am making cable holders to keep the line straight ,,,, or as straight as I can get it... we will see how that stacks up

The blue is prussian blue, used to what parts touched and how .... Flex etc ..

Stephen

[cheese]

ok so I changed the crank seal, removed the clutch and put in a new one that is just about as bad as teh old one (bugger) at least I've got a spare set of plates now...... one bonus was teh set of stronger springs in the new one. So I'll fit those and see how they treat me. it's easy enough to swap them. the primary gear has some wear on it that so I guess the best I can do is to use some really fine wet/dry adn try to get the burrs off. I'll price up a new one too.

Alos found a crack on the case by teh chain so I got some locktight stuff to fill the hole, but it's taking a long time to cure so I'll hit ti with the heat gun tonight and see if that helps.

Also the guys from spectrum (bloody good bike shop) said that the exsesive smoke is probably a tuning issue so I might get it back together and test it with teh new crank seal then slap the new piston in and see how that goes. Becausethe smoke is blue, this is burnt oil, if it was white, it would be gearbox oil. the only thing that I'd changed was the pipe and I was told that the FMF fat boy is a bolt on upgrade so I hadn't worried about the tuning/jetting.

I've also fitted a new seal to the kickstarter.