Nigel Sprocket “There ye go lad, a flash new selector mechanism for the new 650” Spotty Stapp (no relation to Grumpy Stapp, TOMCC member) “I was talking to a nip down the pub last night and he reckons we should split the crankcases horizontally so the gearbox can be assembled and tested before bolting up …
The only difficulty dismantling modern fork legs is to hold the damper tube while undoing the bolt that retains it in the bottom of the fork lower tube. To make this easy I welded a 30mm nut to a section of tube see diagram. Tube diameter doesn’t matter much, mine is made from a piece …
The first step is to get the throttle slides both opening at the same time. This is easy when the carbs are off the bike and I always check this when I have them off. It’s a bit harder on the bike especially with splayed heads. The way I do it is wind the throttle …
The trap in the crankshaft is hard to remove but is a must do whenever the bottom end is apart. I learnt this lesson as a youngster when I rebuilt my 500 Trophy in a corrugated iron lean to at the back of the commune (yeah alright, bloody hippies, but this was in the very …