Here's a chance to show off your zxr400, so get them digital cameras out and show us some piccies.Rebuilding your bike or modding it then let everyone in on it.
Yeah it may well do but to be quite honest that's a bit pricey for a swing arm concidering I can pick 1 up for about £20. Baz sold me 1 but unfortunatly he can't get it off the frame he's breaking.
I've started working on the engine today and so far have replaced the head gasket, cam chain and all 3 guides. I did run into quite a big problem, the inlet cam has very bad grooves on the 3rd cylinder lobes so now that's going in the biffa. All 8 inlet rockers have been munched at by the camshaft so they have to go in the biffa aswell
Luckily Baz has sorted me out with a new camshaft and 8 new rockers, Thank you Baz!
All images are in order I done the parts.
After the engine is all back together, I'm gonna be painting the engine satin black so should look pretty tidy
Regards
Rich
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Bugger about the cams and followers! Rich, have you changed the cam chain? You'll see in my recent thread of my spare engine that i have an extra bit of casing. No doubt ill be grinding the best part of that off to get the cam chain on but how did you find yours?
RedexRobB wrote:Bugger about the cams and followers! Rich, have you changed the cam chain? You'll see in my recent thread of my spare engine that i have an extra bit of casing. No doubt ill be grinding the best part of that off to get the cam chain on but how did you find yours?
Hi,
Yeah the engine now has a new cam chain. On these zx400 engines, that extra bit of casting aren't there so the cam chains just fall out with a little wiggle. I took the cams out and the guides and then just gave the cam chain a little wiggle at the bottom and off she comes. Little tip while changing the HG, when I took the old HG off I wire wooled the top of the barrels to make sure it's grit and muck free. The pictures above with the head flipped upside down was completely black, with a little Jizer and a rag soon cleaned the valves and casting up quite nicely.
Here's a picture of the worst rocker from cylinder 3.
Not good lol
Regards
Rich
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extonyg wrote:you thought yours were bad you should see my rockers....
just finished rebuild on my bike took it for its first run today. viewtopic.php?f=117&t=10251
Hi,
Yeah I saw that, I had to laugh when I saw it because it was that bad. I managed to snap the oil feeder just behind the cam gears :smt013 but yet again Baz saved me bacon and sent me a new 1 Nice 1 mate cheers
The engine is now fully bolted up ready to run but first I gotta do the valve clearences which I'll do at a later date. Next on the list is to paint the engine in HT satin black which I think is gonna look the camels titties!
Regards
Rich
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Saturday I spent a good 1 and half hours trying my dam hardest to get the center clutch nut off using everything I could think off. I even used the special tool (clutch holding tool) to clamp the center hub whilst I undo the nut with a torque wrench..... I know very naughty of me but it was the best leverage I have. The wrench clicked at 140 Nm and I was still going on past it. In the end the clutch laughed at me and gave way
Luckily my mum's ex husband came round with his air ratchet gun... rat tat tat tat tat whroooom and it was off. New clutch on (KBATL) slipper which is way better then the non-slipper I had on it. Found out that it was chewing through more tires then a slipper..... can't wait to test it.
Gonna be spraying the engine today in metallic black, hopefully will look cool.
Regards
Rich
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More progress on the frame and wheels. Haven't got a photo of the front wheel yet as it needs a set of discs. Rear wheel is fully put together and ready to roll. Frame has new race bearings, top and bottom yoke polished to a mirror and bolted up. New dust seals top and bottom, stainless bolts looking like chrome. New caliper hanger bearing and dust seals (check price tags thread for prices) Still haven't got a swingarm
Thinking nearer to the end of the build, I'll get a set of these racing levers with 2 finger action
Please let me know what you think.
Regards
Rich
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Did you file off the machine marks from the top yoke by hand before polishing?
Want to do my frame and yokes...talking of which why did you paint the frame when it was half polished to start with?
cdstirland81 wrote:truly good work there, hope my H1 looks that clean, where you getting those levers from?
Hi,
Levers you can get anywere most of the time Egay! They're round about £70 each lever, pricey I know but it's gotta be well worth the money. Just like upgrading your front brake calipers to GSXR600 1's
wes wrote:Looking good!
Did you file off the machine marks from the top yoke by hand before polishing?
Want to do my frame and yokes...talking of which why did you paint the frame when it was half polished to start with?
Yeah I put the top and bottom yoke in my dads workmate then hacked away at them with a fine file, nothing too corse otherwise you'll be there all day trying to buff the file marks out. I got the frame powdercoated because I got fed polishing it really lol I also wanted the frame to be original. I think it's gonna look really wierd to me because the frame was polished when I got the bike so I have no idea how it's gonna look.
Knowing my luck I'll hate it and repolish it. lol
Regards
Rich
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Thought I'd have a go at painting the engine today, it looks tacky at the moment but once I've polished all the bolts and replaced the rover cover gasket it'll look good as new again. I'll be swapping the crappy water hoses for samco sport silicone ones for better water flow.
Regards
Rich
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to notice the colour lol what happened was, I bought the paint and sprayed a test piece and I didn't like the look of the colour ( way too glittery ) looked like a christmas tree, so I took the paint back and got alu silver in exchange. It looks a hell of alot better but the paint still comes off when you touch it even though I finished painting it a day ago. I think the engine needs to be fully heated up to cure. Someone else mention about the stem nut, looks like a dog has chewed it up, new 1 will be on order soon. Got to admit though the yokes have come up pretty well, wouldn't mind taking polishing up as a buisness lol.
I'll let you know by tomorrow about the swinger as I'm gonna be looking at 1 this weekend but if this 1 is a no go then I'll get in touch
I'm happy to hear other people like the look of this build aswell as me
Regards
Rich
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