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well ive decided to continue getting this bike sorted out its gonna take a while. but ill get it done through the winter. today i stripped most of the bits off ready to drop the engine tommorow.ill give the whole chassis a good cleaning while the engine is out the bike i found another few bad bits today ie holes in the exhausts and a few minor bits i also need a new rad and oil cooler heres a few pics of how it looks. look at the bodge job on oil cooler pipes
whats the best method to fill the holes on the exhausts could they be welded or would exhaust paste and bandage do the job
Bloody hell, did someone dip that into the north sea!? Rusty as anything!
Good luck with it all, just a bit of TLC and you should be fine with it all. The exhaust pipes are a bit beyond 'permanent repair' I think anything you will do is only going to be temporary till they start blowing elsewhere. For short term id just use a bit of exhaust paste and a bandage over it.
Sub frame i would take a to a powder coaters where they can shot blast it and take all the rust off and then coat it in a colour of your choice.
Other than that just a damn good clean and the bodywork sorting and it'll be a cracker. If you need inspiration take alook at my bikepics page
must have made a right racket with all them screws and bolts rattling round under the seat? subframes well rusty, as RobB says a shotblast and powdercoat is the way to go. wtf did they do to the oil cooler pipes?? but a bit of work and that'll be a nice bike mate!
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if you put an even bead of weld around the edged (thats presuming the metal is thick enough which i doubt) and use longer header bolts you might get away with it for a temp fix, but i think you're gonna have to splash out.
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rite well ive been cracking on with the bike this week the engines out got to finnish cleaning the frame next. ive sourced a new radiator and oil cooler with all fixing points and a fan hpoefully he will have a rear hugger for me aswell im also thinking about buying a rear wheel of him with a as new tyre on .the body work is in the sprayshop being repaired and preped ready for spraying its basically going to be the same coulor as it is now i wish i could afford to get the frame and swing arm powder coated but i cant as for the down pipes ive grinded all the rust away from holey areas and the metal hasnt disintegrated so im gonna try and weld them up also what gearbox oil would you reccomend and is it 3 litres i need.so im now basically waiting for the parts to arrive
the nearest powdercoaters to me quoted me £30.00 for the small subframe plus id have to post it to them as its a good few miles away so im going to dremmel the rust off and use a spray can on it id love to do this bike perfect but i realy cant afford it. and as the subframe is out of the way it wont look to bad im just gonna give it a good clean get the engine in get it running. just to make sure everything is ok.and then i can save some cash to finnish it off ive still got to save for my test aswell
well i had my frame,subframe & swinger done for £75 so tell em thats too much, tbh £30 is usually the minimum charge so might not be much more to have the lot done.worth asking.
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rite guys ive been busy cleaning the bike and it looks a lot better but im still waiting for parts ie. radiator oil cooler rear hugger plus i bought a scorpion silencer of ebay im not spending no more until my stuff arrives as i want to see if this new engine is ok i hope it is lol ill get some pics in the week
well i picked my body work up on friday i was happy with it until i noticed the guy who sprayed them has put the decals in the wrong places.i was gutted and couldnt take any pics as i didnt realy want to see them again.i drew some pics of panels and described where i wanted the decals but he said he lost them and thought he remmembered where they went. so he put them on and laquered them aswell.im not realy happy as its not what i wanted. plus hes chucked out my mesh infills for the seat panels and this topped it off all the rubber washers of the tank and panels where put in the fuel tank to keep safe took 1 hour of shaking about to get them out not happy if i can be bothered ill take some pics of the decals on panels