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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
Start from centre outwards. Engine 1st:
- drain oil, inspect condition. If there's petrol in it, need to rebuild carbs & petcock
- cam-chain tensioner
- valve clearance measurements. Probably within spec
- pull plugs and look inside. USB borescope cameras are cheap nowadays.
I have dedicated Windows 7 laptop for camera. It's also old enough to have serial-port so I can connect to various ECUs to program them. |
I have an old Toshiba Libretto 110CT running Windows 98 for a similar reason (old parallel port devices)… no USB for a borescope though. I found those worthless Windows RT Surface tablets are at least useful for my USB microscope though I have to force a generic webcam driver install. I’m sure it will work exactly the same for a USB borescope. Thanks! I’ll add one to my next Amazon order.
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Originally Posted by Singh2jz
I’d get the front end back on just to move it to a better spot. Clean and flat to keep things organized. I also second starting from the center. Get all possible parts needed and procedure researched before starting on a section.
Gonna take time but you got it! Wish I could help physically lmao
Subbed for progress!!
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Guess it’s a build log now! Thanks. Hey, @
Alex. Do you mind merging my thread about the new battery venting? It’s part of the build, I guess.
My original workspace was inside the semi-enclosed lean-to that is behind it in some shots. You couldn’t stand up in there so I moved the bike to rip the elevated floor out but never got moved back in since my mother piled all her junk at the entrance:
https://i.imgur.com/KqTxcLR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nPIXisp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MHR2J9p.jpg
I originally took the bike out to remove the elevated floor since there wasn’t enough room to stand. I’ll get to work making it “flat and organized” but there’s no power/lights so I still can’t do everything here. No air compressor either. I used the bike’s battery for my 12v emergency roadside impact wrench when I last changed sprockets (worked like a charm!).
That was so long ago her lean-to didn’t even exist to pile things in front of my bike’s lean-to.
https://i.imgur.com/kHXKnsP.jpg
That’s right: a lean-to on a lean-to… on a lean-to, since there’s also one she fully enclosed many years ago. When we first built it we made her promise that it was only for the motorcycle stuff but she still moved right in, first chance she got.
She always paid lip service to the agreement so it’s not as bad inside though you literally have to climb over her junk to get in. The landlord is selling the entire neighborhood, forcing us to abandon these buildings in a matter of months, so it’s time to deal with all her junk too. I just need to get it flat/clean
enough.
https://i.imgur.com/mzPBluf.jpg
To make it flatter/cleaner I guess I can grab a bunch of walkway blocks from outside… maybe take them to a car wash to clean them off first since I don’t have a pressure washer.
Feral chickens have been roosting in there over the years so it’ll never be clean, but hopefully good enough. No power/light is the bigger issue but I’ll have to deal with that to even start work since I need a big fan. Georgia’s heat/humidity are brutal right now but it’s more to disrupt mosquitos that swarm you the moment you set foot in her yard. I swear, you couldn’t have more if you made it your life’s goal to breed mosquitos.
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Originally Posted by jkv45
Oy! That's a project!
You have a pretty good list going.
As Danno noted - I'd start with the engine.
Oil/filter, air filter, coolant, probably new battery, drain fuel and floatbowls, checking things over, and then see what happens.
If the fuel was not stabilized, or the floatbowls drained, most likely the carbs are messed up and need a complete overhaul.
Once you get it running, I would go to the brakes. Bleed and check them over. They may be stuck from sitting.
Then chain and tires, eventually the gauges/fairings/cosmetics.
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Yeah. I recall the caliper pistons were horribly pitted even before all this so brakes and you need to change fluid every 4 years anyway, so brakes will need a rebuild. I’ve never bled brakes before and hoped I’d never have to but I’m going to be doing so much else for the first time that I may as well. I’m already in the deep end.
The Sea Foam I used claims they can stabilize fuel for 2 years but it’s been a lot longer than that. I did leave it with Ethanol-free E0 so perhaps I got more years out of it. I honestly don’t know what I’ll find when I get to that.