One of my favourite colour schemes for a FirebladeShauned71 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 6:59 pm A bit of cleaning and polishing on another impulse buyHas now been put away for winter and will be something to tinker with next year. Quick tidy and sort out in the shed ready before I pull the covers off these two. Plan is to build one very nice storm out of the two.
let me explain.
i couldnt not give it a home.. who the fexk buys a blue monster????fabiostar wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:40 pm i done a stupid thing
my mate rode into his garage 3 years ago on his 600 Ducati monster and decided to pull it into a few large chunks to clean up and tidy a few bits over winter. and its sat since.
today he decided he needs the room and called me... il be picking it up in the chunks after xmas ,for the same price iv payed for sets of tyres in the past
biggest problem i see with it is its blue
Send it over bit by bit to Buzzer...fabiostar wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:40 pm i done a stupid thing
my mate rode into his garage 3 years ago on his 600 Ducati monster and decided to pull it into a few large chunks to clean up and tidy a few bits over winter. and its sat since.
today he decided he needs the room and called me... il be picking it up in the chunks after xmas ,for the same price iv payed for sets of tyres in the past
biggest problem i see with it is its blue
we have already had that conversation
he called me not the other way round lolI'll be interested to hear your opinion on the YSS shock when the warmer weather is back next yearmjvw wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:15 pm Bearings arrived from https://shop.marksman-ind.com/ta1720z-- ... 1eccb38c26 fitted to the Arm/sub cushion assembly flush using home made bearing press, used old bearing casing to press in extra 5mm to allow dust seals to be fitted, when they arrive from Honda.
New shock arrives tomorrow went for a YSS MZ456-345TRL-07 due to budget.
Good manmjvw wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:46 am Yep, sirch345 will report back have read the reviews and post on this forum do wish I could afford one of the other offerings.
Keeping hold of the used OEM one just in case…. not sure if they can be refurbed?
Also ride hight is ajustable by 5mm on new shock was going to fit a 4mm shock spacer so wont need that now.
Unlucky Lloydie, disappointing I imagine although nothing sounding to drastic, fingers crossed it's not anyway,lloydie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:49 am Today I had it back together and ready for startup and carb balance but it didn’t go as planned !
No power to the coil for cylinder 1&4.
Carbs leaking from bowls ,mixture screws,drains .
Oh and leaking from sump plug .
I’ll get these sorted and try again in spring
