More Manshed Therapy Nov 16/17 SE QLD

[X-Ray]

Thanks everyone who could make it over, made a couple of jobs for me much easier. Was a fun day, got the new chain on with Harvys help  and Darran whacked on in the corner, I mean whacked on his new Spin on filter mod plus oil change.     Had a nice little sausage sizzle for lunch, (thanks chef Ken), then we headed back to the shed to tear apart my forks. Ken and Harv headed home at this time, (really should have stayed for the ice show!), Horse turned up on his KLE and before I knew it Leon had the brakes off, front wheel off, then the forks were off. Took a bit of force to get the bottom dampener rod bolts undone, rattle gun, (thanks Tony), then socket on a bar, then back to the rattle gun, phew. While one fork leg was in the vice, Tony HAD to ask if there was any oil in the leg, Trent pumped the leg just as the bolt shot out, and out with that bolt came the evil grey sludge that once was pristine fork oil. 

I took the opportunity to remove the surface rust that was on the upper fork tubes with some fine wet and dry sprayed with kero, worked a treat. We popped in the new Racetech springs, RPM valves, bushes and seals, (couple of delays getting the slider bush seated), and after Darran and Trent calculated the required spacer length plus required oil level, both forks were better than new. 

The remaining crew left after that, and I walked back into my foul smelling shed, (rancid oil really does stink the place up,  ), and decided bolting things back together could wait till the next day. Didn't take long to get her back together next morning although I haven't completely finished as I'm waiting a couple of days for the Araldite to dry on one front guard tab that had broken off. Then I'll go for a ride and see how these rebuilt/modded forks go, should be good. But really, thanks guys for coming over and making it a fun day, sorry everyone couldn't make it, (I didn't think you would make it up Paul after seeing the black cloud of destruction heading towards the G/Coast), and thanks Baldy for the phone call mid afternoon, we got there in the end 

An eager crowd including Leela watched surgery on Darrans FJ


Plenty of space, although the sun didn't stay out for long


Draining out the black stuff


Some of the ice rocks that smashed all over the place, the videos I took are deafening


Forks off


Darran hard at work


The remaining Manshed crew leaving, 


Hey fellas, come back, NOW WHAT??


More or less back together the next day


Heres an interesting one. I forgot to point out this little group of seats I had out under the gazebo. These were part of the seating at Festival Hall in Brisbane, and we managed to grab them at an auction before they pulled it down. Underneath a couple of the seats is rock hard chewing gum, could have been stuck there by a screaming teenager when the Beatles toured in 1964, who knows! They are as uncomfortable as hell though!

[The General]

THeres an interesting one. I forgot to point out this little group of seats I had out under the gazebo. These were part of the seating at Festival Hall in Brisbane, and we managed to grab them at an auction before they pulled it down. Underneath a couple of the seats is rock hard chewing gum, could have been stuck there by a screaming teenager when the Beatles toured in 1964, who knows! They are as uncomfortable as hell though!

That`s benign! did it lose it`s flavour?

[Alf]

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Here's one of the damper rod length for Alf

It was a great day,hail storm and all, and look forward to the next one.

                                                         Tony.
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Thank you thank you 

Bit by bit I collect all the info to my FZR/FJ fork conversion

[CanDman]

An eager crowd including Leela watched surgery on Darrans FJ



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Hey.....I've never seen a Kangaroo with that kind of coat b4......do you need a special license to own one? COOOOOOOL 

[ken65]

gday ray, forgot to say a big thanks for the day, nice place you have , everything a bloke could ever want, now all you need is the IT490 to go with the fj,  have to admit , as exciting as the hail storm would have been,,  im glad i missed it, also i have to say i've never seen hail that big before. you wouldnt last long on the bike in one of them, you'd get pelted beyond recognition.

[X-Ray]

Come over any time Ken, no probs at all. Hey that IT490 I was watching on Ebay from the bike importers down at Tweed Hds sold for $5000.00

[ken65]

gday ray, their starting to go up in price alright, id be happy with either a 465 or 490 but i have to admit their both more than i could comfortable handle, before i got old, big and fat i thought the 175 was awesome,,  anyway i'll have one soon fingers crossed, the main problem im finding is most of them need some  sort of resto or top unrestored condition are  out of my price range,  having said that the longer we put it off the more pain,  ken

[X-Ray]

Ohhhh if I came into some money!  http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Yamaha-it465-82-tidy-bike-runs-perfect-suit-yz490-cr500-kx500-pe400-buyer-/121208792756?pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item1c389b66b4
This mob import them, has a mint 2004 KX500 listed at..............$10000.00!!!!

Want to help me rob a bank Ken? (oops, can you still say that these days??)  http://robzridez.com.au/   He has some very tasty bikes on his site,  

[Bones]

I rode an IT 465 one time at a get together somewhere, and all it wanted to do was stand on it's back wheel. It was road registered, a lot of fun, but scary at the same time. I'd say it was scarier than the 500 kwaka triple I had at the time.

[X-Ray]

Too right Tony,  those big bore two strokes of yesterday are beasts of things. One day...... One day.......

[X-Ray]

 Finally got to go for a half hour ride this weekend, mainly to check the new chain and the rebuilt forks. All felt great, the front end was nice and stable, the RPM valves plus springs etc worked nicely, especially under brakes. At first I was thinking that the springs were too hard, mainly because I was used to having soggy old Progressive springs etc, but with the valves, the harder you go, the better it feels, very happy 

Sometime between now and March I'll give the carbs a good clean out.

[Stainesy]

X-ray, it's great to hear that your front end mods worked and you are happy with them.  I finally got some time to properly check out the left side damage on my 3XW from when it rolled forward off the side at Manshed Therapy.   The end of the clutch lever was snapped off; near new spare fitted.  Lots of cracks and fractures to the inside and outside of the left side of the ABS plastic fairing so I'll be ripping it off soon for some repairs.   The Renntec bar was deeply gouged and scratched; sanded, bogged, sanded and painted.   But the drop pushed the Renntec bar into the bottom of the timing cover and split it so now I'm hunting for a timing cover. 

[Bones]

Stainsey, Did you notice before your spill if there was any clearance between the cover and the bar. When I put mine on and tightened up, the bar was touching the cover, so I put a small piece of steel under the u shaped bracket to give about 5mm of clearance.

[Stainesy]

Stainsey, Did you notice before your spill if there was any clearance between the cover and the bar. When I put mine on and tightened up, the bar was touching the cover, so I put a small piece of steel under the u shaped bracket to give about 5mm of clearance.

Yes mate, there was a few millimetres of gap but I must confess that I didn't give it a good hit or shove to see if the gap closed and there was contact, as obviously there was from the fall.  Oh well, we live and learn.  The pics of your bike with its new bars looks pretty good but you really do needs a lower cowl.  Right now I have the fairing off and when I go on days off in a few days I'm going to have a crack at fixing the fresh fairing damage and a few old cracks that have been around for ages, but it's been a while since I've used either my Dremel or the Plastex.  I ordered some stuff from Randy recently and he added a timing cover into the package which should turn up in a few days.   Engine bar has been sanded and painted numerous times and is back to normal look.

[Bones]

Stainsey, Did you notice before your spill if there was any clearance between the cover and the bar. When I put mine on and tightened up, the bar was touching the cover, so I put a small piece of steel under the u shaped bracket to give about 5mm of clearance.

Yes mate, there was a few millimetres of gap but I must confess that I didn't give it a good hit or shove to see if the gap closed and there was contact, as obviously there was from the fall.  Oh well, we live and learn.  The pics of your bike with its new bars looks pretty good but you really do needs a lower cowl.  Right now I have the fairing off and when I go on days off in a few days I'm going to have a crack at fixing the fresh fairing damage and a few old cracks that have been around for ages, but it's been a while since I've used either my Dremel or the Plastex.  I ordered some stuff from Randy recently and he added a timing cover into the package which should turn up in a few days.   Engine bar has been sanded and painted numerous times and is back to normal look.

Mine has the chin fairing, just didn't have it fitted when I took the photos. I actually have 2 spare ones at home but both need a bit of plastic welding or something to fix them. Reading something on here somewhere the other day about using Lego blocks to fix fairings. Made out of the same materials apparently.