When two become one. TL swappage

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Along with my gsxr project I have an sick TL fetish I struggle to shift and I'm currently on tiller number 5 been knocking about on a cheap Swiss imported mustard yellow S for the last 12 months and Its done me proud. Couple of track outings and plenty days out with the Mrs on her mini dubba SV. Since it's my little dirty secret I thought I'd share it for other botherers to enjoy. Here's the mustard machine and some mods and goodies to come! 

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First step after collection was the big clean. 60,000 miles of use and no signs of a wash. Scrubbed up alright with 2 tins of brake cleaner and a bottle of petrol 

Next step motor out for a good once-over and an easy valve check + scrub

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Motor out and turns out there's fuck all compression in the front cylinder and clearances are all over the show. Best be safe he says and rip off the front head clean up and see what's going on 

Good clean up and back together after fighting a rusted on front sprocket 

[davecara]

dubba dubba dubba dubba

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Motor in. And some removal of Chinese shite later and this little snotbox doesn't look half bad! 

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Shy the usual problems. This mustard machine has been pretty good fun both on road and on track and after wobbling round oulton park a couple weeks back I thought it's high time I treated my faithful old snot donkey to some goodies. So far just micron cans. Healtech quickshifter some intense Yoshi boxing and an R1 shock conversion it's pretty stock and id always fancied some posh suspension and a race system...

[baldrick]

did you notice much improvement with the r1 shock installed?

ive got a couple of tls too and a shock sitting on the bench.

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On 11/27/2019 at 7:17 PM, baldrick said:

did you notice much improvement with the r1 shock installed?

ive got a couple of tls too and a shock sitting on the bench.

The R1 shock is definitely an improvement and much easier to set up handles the heat much better