It has been asked that I make a thread of it .I have never made a thread of it before … So here is the first edition numnums guide to spannering a thing .
First you need something to spanner … Now what your looking for is something simples . You don’t want complications from parts not essential . So I was found one of these …
Not a bad bike as it is but it runs like a three legged camel ripped to the humps on whiskey . It has a dodgy steering lock fault and leaks oil .This will not do . It looks okay … ish as it is… however if there was another one and you parked it next to that one it would look the same …Thats because a factory built it . We can fix this problems .
Next having got the bike you need to tidy your workspace … before .
Next thing you want to do is get a tub . You will need a tub for all the bits that you might want to keep . This is a good tub as it already had some parts from a bike in it . Sooo then when your putting it back together bits left over seems more natural and less stressful .
Next come disassembly . Just keep taking things off till you run out of bits . Keep throwing it in the tub making sure to get it well mixed up . Wiring loom now as you can see I have labled nothing . This is important never label anything as you wont learn doing it that way . Also they label thing on that choppers programme . If they do it on that choppers programme its probably wrong . So eventually you will end up with some thing that looks a little like this …
So now we address faults as we know them … It runs like the above camel so I attacked the carbs and found 3 out of 4 slow jets blocked completley . This is a good thing as its kind what I suspected .Various other bit of nasty floating around . Carb diaphrams etc were all in good nick ,so I cleaned them out with my dentist tool kit and thinners .Do not get thinners on diaphrams I dont think they would like it . Then I put them back together and gave the outside a good clean . Quick piccy showing outside clean and the tops ,needles and springs all cleaned shiny and smooth .
Next is oil leak . On an old engine the first thing is to see whats going to snap and whats not . So I have snapped 1 cover bolt and one engine mounting and someone beat me to an exhaust stud …so far . Nothing serious and we shall come to them later in the recipie . All the rocker cover bolts came out which was nice . Source of oil leak … There was about 75% of a gasket on the rocker cover .
I should add … as this is a Kredit Krunch Kwak we shall mostly be utilising what is already lying around in the garage . We are doing this on the super cheap . Really going all out on budget bodge jobs . Colours will be decided on by whats in stock . I have limited my spend budget to £200 … yes a paltry amount compared to some … This is following the choppers programme rule … If they do it ,its wrong . Styling is important you should think about that from the get go, as it makes it easier if you have a picture of what you want in your mind … well I think so anyways .Here I am experimenting with cissy bar ideas …
Oh my Donkey… it looks a bit different to when I last saw it leaving the garage lol hope you enjoy working on it, looking forward to following its fate on here
I always find it useful to disasemble mechanical devices near a fridge in the garage.
Any fiddly screws or bearings that you drop will naturally fall under the fridge due to ‘fridge suck’ (the most powerful force in the universe) and you’ll never lose them (or be able to get to them).
looking forward to plenty of tips from uncle Num Num
The important thing to remember is to keep your nice bike out of throwing distance of spanners/ wrenches/ hacksaws/ people that may be thrown during the process. I see you are not complying with this safety procedure… I would be disappointed had I had any expectations!
Well I have been on ebay and blown the budget . I have bought . 4 pod air filters ,cafe seat unit ,new rocker gasket and 2 kg of stainless bolts . This has taken spend so far to 220 quid . But I hope that is the big stuff out the way . I could have made my own seat unit but I am a bit sick of fiberglass as its horrible smelly sticky stuff . There will now need to be some serious cheapness .
I have also found out that one version of this bike came with spoked wheels . . Now that would be fantastic to lay my hands on a set of those . I appeal to lb members to keep half an eye open for a set .
I dont know if those would take the weight . I need to lift the engine around various places tonight . Its a hefty lump that old engine . . Thinking about it is making my back twinge
Ha ha very good photo manipulating . That would probably be a handy manual for me to have right now . . But the budget wont stretch to that and instruction manuals are for squares
Full marks for being brave enough, or is that stupid enough (?), to do a picture post of your spannering. Loved the bench by the way, but where is the chop saw and the last half completed woodworking project? And the empty beer bottle?
Forget “fridge force”, it’s just one of the many unknown phenomena science has failed to explain and a kindred sister to the “anything heavy and immovable with only a small gap under” and the “drain cover” forces. Then there’s the “cam chain tunnel force”, renown for collecting nuts and washers.
And just where do 12 and 13 mm spanners go when you need them?
. Colours will be decided on by whats in stock . I have limited my spend budget to £200 … yes a paltry amount compared to some … This is following the choppers programme rule … If they do it ,its wrong . Styling is important you should think about that from the get go, as it makes it easier if you have a picture of what you want in your mind … well I think so anyways .Here I am experimenting with cissy bar ideas …
