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Faster!
After making some good progress on the engine earlier this week, there was one other thing that has been bugging me ever since I bought this bike. When I bought the bike I suspected that it had been in a crash at least at some point in its life. A few fork swaps and the fact that a rubber mallet was needed to install the upper frame in the lower frame mounts lead me to believe that the frame was buggered as well.
But before I could swan-dive into the frame swap, I decided that I had to tackled the heads first. Not very surprisingly I found a leaking valve cover. The reason it was leaking was due to a combination of really poorly executed thread repair or in other words: The threads were COMPLETELY on the proverbial p*ss.
Some fresh engine paint to make the heads look representable.
Well my crash-free XS1100 fork legs, I've been running the last few years have turned out to be not quite so crash-free, one of them suffering from approx. 4-5mm (1/4") of runout.
Next was trimming some no longer needed parts of the frame. I have a different breather setup than stock so that rear bit of pipe was no longer usefull to me.
The paint job was nothing to write home about, a coat of grey primer and then another one of satin black. I also painted the yokes, because they were looking a bit tatty and ever since I painted the lower one on the Turbo black I wanted to do the same on the mule. (Mind you a hot and humid 30 degree Celsius day is perfect for painting and even I can achieve some half respectable results!)
New steering stem bearings installed and frame and yokes are back in unison.
And that's the new frame installed and among many other things, the rear subframe bolts align correctly and the airfilter base isn't bent anymore... Fun-fact: This frame is so straight (compared to the old one) that to my huge surprise, the forklegs fell back out, whilst I turned round to pick up the allen wrench from the workbench. The old yokes required some serious twisting and turning AND a rubber mallet to get them in and out.
And some damage you find along the way:
I've had charging issues for a long time on this bike, with one of the main reasons being this plug. It's been well fried since... no idea. Cleaned the contacts and filled it with di-electric grease and it should be good until the new engine goes in, which has a good plug.
So you hear me going on, on just how badly bent the frame was, but then again, everybody can say that. See those brake pads? My old forks even required an extra washer to center the wheel in the forks.
Looks just like before (almost)...
... the old girl tracking straight is a nice bonus though. 8)
Blog-Post: http://greasygreg.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-new-tr1-engine-more-fixes-more.html
But before I could swan-dive into the frame swap, I decided that I had to tackled the heads first. Not very surprisingly I found a leaking valve cover. The reason it was leaking was due to a combination of really poorly executed thread repair or in other words: The threads were COMPLETELY on the proverbial p*ss.
Some fresh engine paint to make the heads look representable.
Well my crash-free XS1100 fork legs, I've been running the last few years have turned out to be not quite so crash-free, one of them suffering from approx. 4-5mm (1/4") of runout.
Next was trimming some no longer needed parts of the frame. I have a different breather setup than stock so that rear bit of pipe was no longer usefull to me.
The paint job was nothing to write home about, a coat of grey primer and then another one of satin black. I also painted the yokes, because they were looking a bit tatty and ever since I painted the lower one on the Turbo black I wanted to do the same on the mule. (Mind you a hot and humid 30 degree Celsius day is perfect for painting and even I can achieve some half respectable results!)
New steering stem bearings installed and frame and yokes are back in unison.
And that's the new frame installed and among many other things, the rear subframe bolts align correctly and the airfilter base isn't bent anymore... Fun-fact: This frame is so straight (compared to the old one) that to my huge surprise, the forklegs fell back out, whilst I turned round to pick up the allen wrench from the workbench. The old yokes required some serious twisting and turning AND a rubber mallet to get them in and out.
And some damage you find along the way:
I've had charging issues for a long time on this bike, with one of the main reasons being this plug. It's been well fried since... no idea. Cleaned the contacts and filled it with di-electric grease and it should be good until the new engine goes in, which has a good plug.
So you hear me going on, on just how badly bent the frame was, but then again, everybody can say that. See those brake pads? My old forks even required an extra washer to center the wheel in the forks.
Looks just like before (almost)...
... the old girl tracking straight is a nice bonus though. 8)
Blog-Post: http://greasygreg.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-new-tr1-engine-more-fixes-more.html