A Tale of Two Zeds
- Thread starter Bevelheadmhr
- Start date
I have have the time to work on the bike again. Currently in the middle of rebuilding the engine.. Soon found a problem, one of the many boxes containing the engine parts has gone missing. Looked everywhere for it, but can't find it. That box held a lot of the engine internals, along with the engine covers and a few new small items.
No doubt it'll turn up in six months time. Cant wait that long, so had to find used replacements from Ebay and a few new items from Z-Power etc.
Got most of the bottom end done, but now waiting for parts to arrive to fit the pistons, block and head.
In the meantime took the Mikumi VM carbs apart, they were worse than I expected. The homemade black paint was peeling off, while one of the floats was badly damaged, one carb had a missing spring.. god knows how.
Spent hours slowly stripping off the old paint, the carbs have been rebuilt unpainted, the choke rod is rusty, so going to try make a new one in stainless.
No doubt it'll turn up in six months time. Cant wait that long, so had to find used replacements from Ebay and a few new items from Z-Power etc.
Got most of the bottom end done, but now waiting for parts to arrive to fit the pistons, block and head.
In the meantime took the Mikumi VM carbs apart, they were worse than I expected. The homemade black paint was peeling off, while one of the floats was badly damaged, one carb had a missing spring.. god knows how.
Spent hours slowly stripping off the old paint, the carbs have been rebuilt unpainted, the choke rod is rusty, so going to try make a new one in stainless.
