Chasing the smoke

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Re: Chasing the smoke

Post by fossie » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 pm

I'm back from visiting my 650 in 45 degree France :o
Did you get valve tool sorted or do you need one?
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Post by Uncle Bob » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:23 pm

fossie wrote:I'm back from visiting my 650 in 45 degree France :o
Did you get valve tool sorted or do you need one?
Welcome back to Cool Britannia, hope is was a good holiday :-)

I sent Blix my one for now (cheaper version (or maybe not as I think it was genuine Suzuki) with the clear yellow plastic handle.

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Post by Uncle Bob » Tue Jul 02, 2019 9:23 pm

I hope you are going to do a video startup. How about Facebook Live (have no idea what it is but sounds good!). We could all grab a beer and then watch as you do your maiden startup sans the smoke hopefully.

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Re: Chasing the smoke

Post by Uncle Bob » Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:00 am

:lol: I'm sure your rebuild will be fine.

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Re: Chasing the smoke

Post by Kryten » Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:05 pm

Good stuff Mick.

Your Ventura rails are in the post!

Post the video on here, I don’t do Face-O-gram :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wish I could join you in Fintry with a pint of 80 shillings...
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Post by Uncle Bob » Thu Jul 04, 2019 9:44 am

Blix wrote:Timing checked, it was a bit out tbh, this one is especially for UB
:D Thanks - those Yoshi covers are looking very nice (whole engine look great), bling is always good!

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Post by johnr » Thu Jul 04, 2019 9:51 pm

where did you get the yoshi covers for then?
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Re: Chasing the smoke

Post by Uncle Bob » Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:58 am

Mick was just showing me after this thread some time back...!
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He hastened to add to didn't pay the price of the Ebay advert! I'm still tempted - and now I see how good they look...
We could do a group purchase, but then I realised that most want a whole bike for that much :lol:

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Re: Chasing the smoke

Post by johnr » Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:45 pm

switch is simple enough, take the wire off and touch it to earth and the light should come on, its just a brass plunger held down by a spring. you didnt paint the casing did you? if so, did you check that the inside of the switch is bare metal, cos the switch plunger needs to be able to earth out.
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Re: Chasing the smoke

Post by Kryten » Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:47 pm

When I started mine for the first time I did the "Spin it up with no plugs in" to check for oil pressure.

Good job really as the person I got the engine off had been in, looking for bits to swap to an 1100.

I knew he had been at the clutch so I had sorted that one, but missed the poorly re-fitted circlip to the oil pump drive...... :oops: :o :o

But that's why you do these dry starts on engines.

Do you have the Oil Pressure light on and not going off? Which would imply no oil pressure. Or is light off at all times? Which would suggest a lamp/switch fault.

Another quick and dirty check is to remove the end plug from the oil gallery, and spin up the engine. If the pump is working it will cover your right leg in oil.
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