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Wicky wrote:Small pilot holes and some all-singing and self-tapping stainless screws wouldn't go amiss ...

i would prefer not drilling holes into it, but on the other hand i don't want it falling off after 5 mins

No screws used cause I thought they would spoil the lines just like you Marty.

I scored and degreased both surfaces and the used a hot melt glue gun, which sets pretty fast so you are not holding it for hrs. then fully filled the leading edge gap with silicon so nowater could get in and force the gap open.

Stayed on no probs for 3yrs so far and that includes a few heavy wheelie landings that whip the mudguard to hit the tire!

AMCQ46 wrote:No screws used cause I thought they would spoil the lines just like you Marty.

I scored and degreased both surfaces and the used a hot melt glue gun, which sets pretty fast so you are not holding it for hrs. then fully filled the leading edge gap with silicon so nowater could get in and force the gap open.

Stayed on no props for 3yrs so far and that includes a few heavy wheelie landings that whip the mudguard to hit the tire!

cheers al....

AMCQ46 wrote:

lloydiecbr wrote:Just got back from a 80 mile test run ))
Fingers now working .
Wow the noise from the intakes is better and louder than the exhausts .
It pulls better smother and quicker than before I likey
I just need to get the front and rear shocks set now


Sorry officer
The voices made me do it

Must have been a bit keen to have to go out in this weather, but you see what I mean about the sound, it's addictive

I remember when I replaced the Ram Air tubes on my 7r - from Factory with joins, seams, resonators etc - to straight through...

It sounded like it was going to eat babies!!

rear wheel off for new rubber tomorrow, serviced the calliper and put new pads in, new rear disc, fitted the l bracket for the ventura system i got off the bay, fitted one new mirror with built in led indicators (leaving it a da or 2 as dont know if i like em) so all in all quite a good day!

Finally finished fitting the R6 regulator/rectifier....... and she started up afterwards - result



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.....and balanced the carbs - they were quite a bit out of sync, see before and after.........

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I'll double check sync when she's all back together.

i did a spot of front brake caliper painting today.
its hard to show the true colour without natural light but i'm happy enough, theres a few spots that need touching up, but i need the paint to harden a bit first.
the calipers started off like this

then i took them apart and cleaned and sanded them

and then the fiddly bit of painting them




all i have to do now is scrub the blue paint off me hands......

come up a treat those callipers marty, mates done his red! he used a block of wood with wet n dry after over the nissin wording and rubbed the paint off, neat little touch

bigspanishmarty wrote:i did a spot of front brake caliper painting today.
its hard to show the true colour without natural light but i'm happy enough, theres a few spots that need touching up, but i need the paint to harden a bit first.

all i have to do now is scrub the blue paint off me hands......

You should have used a brush ya Daft Git!

you know me mac, i'm still at the finger painting level........

First job in the "Give the Storm a Birthday" has been to remove the rear subframe for painting. Quite how I'm going to get the undertray re-attached with thye cables in the correct places is yet to be discovered - not looking forward to that bit!

Then its all alloy part polished, wheels to repaint, forks to repaint. Fairings off and through clean underneath. Check all connectors for signs of corrosion.

Check valve shims and manual CCTs. Adjust head bearings. Rebuild front master cylinder plus normal "service" jobs.

not much then fella
happy birthday to your bike

Stratman wrote:First job in the "Give the Storm a Birthday" has been to remove the rear subframe for painting. Quite how I'm going to get the undertray re-attached with thye cables in the correct places is yet to be discovered - not looking forward to that bit!

Then its all alloy part polished, wheels to repaint, forks to repaint. Fairings off and through clean underneath. Check all connectors for signs of corrosion.

Check valve shims and manual CCTs. Adjust head bearings. Rebuild front master cylinder plus normal "service" jobs.

Take photos before you take it all apart, make notes, refer to Haynes pics for reference, used a combination of these when I did mine & all seems to work ok now it's back together. Good luck & Happy birthday Storm.

Mac

Played around with some blanking plates, spacers & back plates trying to fill the hole where I've fitted mindicators, no joy so put em back as were.

Did change me gear link rod as mine had some cracks in it. I noticed this way back when I had it all apart earlier in the year only just got a new one, fiver from silvers.

Cracks at both ends one end is cracked both sides.


The worst crack....eek!


Mac