Mercwagonman

I have 2 tanks... Guessing the one with no pet cock is a F? What's the other off?

Gratings... No greetings one and all. Finished building my Norton dominator 99, so now to the slabby. I have 2 fuel tanks. One has a pet cock pitch of 35mm the other 45mm. Which is the correct one for a F?

The bike was a street fighter, with missing parts, and someone before me has started to get bits to return it to stock. I seem to be missing lots of bits of the rear plastics...will be looking for those! Are the 34mm CVs a good conversion on the 750??

Bloody hell !, if its not a "F" then I,m not going to get to excited. Took some more pics today, its had the old chopped up rear end as per 1985 hack saw standard...i,m missing quite a few bits on the ass end!. I,ll check the numbers tomorrow...perhaps I should not have been so trusting, but it runs and , well resembles a bike... The problem with reassembling a bike you didn't disassemble and have never spannered on is.....wtf is missing!! No brace and is this a "F"?? No idea what is missing in here , but there is a load of fresh air!! Eblag purchase....hope it fits! Previous life... so is it a F ?? :/

So more questions, brake upgrades, fork upgrades, using stock head-stock and yokes, and anything else that will be achievable on a reasonable budget! Let me know! Thanks

Hello All, Thought I would say Hi, I,ve built a few bikes and I know how a site like this can help smooth the Lows , and share the Hi's of a project with info on tech/parts. This "bitsa" is a "B" plate 750F, which i bought on a whim, because I had always wanted one when I was a spotty 16 year old down at Box Hill in Surrey in 85 on my Fizzy. It ran, it had , i told it had the correct F fairings, albeit damaged and it was cheap...ish. It was missing a few parts, its been powder coated, its a import.....its looking worse by the second as it emerges from storage shed..to go into toy box for real evaluation...what have I bought! Initially I wanted to make a blue/white homage to the bikes I remembered in 85/86, restorations cost to much to do to the letter, i,m not a rivet counter, but the great powder coating is now putting paid to that idea..unless I can get it off and not damage the frame in the process. Brakes/forks/clutch cyl rebuild/incorrect broken fairings/missing disc fasteners/ oil cooler damaged/seat covers/air box/rear fender( mudguard to me..)air box rubbers, rear light, rear shock, tyres, front fender, fork brace, horn, exhaust doesn't fit...........all in the the first 5 min. Act in haste repent at leisure. So where to go from here, I hate Eblag, although it does find unobtainium at times, So i,m looking for recomendations. Where to find good pattern fairing panels. Rear shock swap. Quality used spares and overhaul locations. Advice I've built Suzuki before , my last one being from a box of bits as well, but that was oil, air and water cooled, and was a learning curve!!