Reddragon

I've done really well so far bargain wise, the rolling frame was £250 from fatblokeonbandit already fitted with the banana swingarm and usd forks and came with a box of bits then Engine £51 Loom and CDI £53 Coils £12 BSR36 Carbs £48 Switchgear £18 Pegs,hangers,brake and gear change £17 Downpipes £50

Not done much more on this but my bargain hunting skills came into play again when i saw a set of bst36s on the bay advertised as running rich even after cleaning, got them for £27 posted and these are not clean in my book

Found this that might be useful too http://litetek.co/Guide_USD_ForkDatabase.html

I did that to the first one and threadlocked it in place then decided it was quicker to just crush them in the vice

The smoke was from a weeping oil line banjo

Or not lol

Hopefully there's a video link attached

No rattles or knocking , popped and banged a bit but its on open carbs and no end can , very happy boy

Tatty powerscreen oil cooler coz that's all i had to hand , filled it with oil, pulled tbe leads and cranked it for about 10 secs 3 times to get some oil around the top end hooked up a car battery and gave each carb a squirt of easy start ............ nothing. Pulled a plug, no spark, checked one on tbe other coil, weak spark . Cleaned the coil terminals, cleaned the earth and wiggled the clips on the battery , tried again a few pops , promising i thought, realised i didn't have the choke out pulled it out pressed the button and vrooooom its alive!

Then fitted the titanium downpipes from a gsxr 1000 , people say they fit with a bit of brute force, I'd say a lot of brute force

Bit of redneck engineering on the PAIRS pipes, cut them off and flattened them in the Vice for a quick fix

I'll try and get them blanked off then, i was gonna cut the pipes off and weld up the hole in the middle as a quick fix

Nearly ready to try and fire this up, re the PAIRS system, will it still run ok without it blanked off ?

Cheers thats good to know

Cheers viz , I'd assumed a coil is pretty much a coil and as they're from the same bloodline, sold as working £12

I've got hold of a cheap pair of coils from a 750 / 1100 slingshot, they're different part numbers but will they work on a B12 motor ?

Always liked the look of the blue/gold spot calipers on them

Is that an r 1 front end ?

12b doesn't really have the same ring to it though

Assistant mechanic very happy too and wanted to accept your offer Garry

Made friends with the bandit motor again the crack i thought i saw was a flaw in the casting but i did break the speedo trigger thing on the sprocket so that was where the piece of metal came from anyway its now in the frame

Um how can i put it. NO ! I totally blame you for calling the bloody thing number 13

Lol vultures , I'll have a look at it tomorrow, if it's cracked ,cases are cheap enough on the bay I'll get another set

Lol I work nights and although that gives me all day to do what I want there's never anyone around to lend a hand coz they're all at work , so I've learnt to do things on my own, just lost my rag with this one

Sometimes I hate bike building, found a couple of snapped exhaust studs while I was looking over the engine and thought, i'll drill them out before I put it in the frame , all went well, no snapped drill bits so I thought I'll put it in the frame, it'll only take half an hour , that's where I should've packed up and left it, laid the engine on its side on a couple of blocks, got the frame over it and it got stuck, a little wiggle will sort that, nope, bit more of a wiggle, nope shake the fuck out of it nope !!! Admittedly I still had the forks and swinger plus wheels in place but I've done it several times before on a couple of B6 and a couple Kwak motors but this one was having non of it Soooooooooo the red mist came down, I flipped the frame across the patio, the engine fell out breaking a couple fins, then I picked up the engine and threw it into the shed where it landed on my trolley jack and may have cracked the cases, but at the moment I really couldn't give 2 shits if I have