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Was a good day out at Santa Pod :thumbup: Stayed dry all day at the track and there and back. Tony and I did 7 or 8 runs, I generally got off the line better than Tony and it would have been close on 1/8th of a mile, but the power of the Aprilia caught up by the end of the 1/4 mile. Best I got was 1...

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Pipe building is one of my favorites 😁 For example this is a RD500 set I did some 12 years ago https://i.postimg.cc/xNQt1FFS/P1090647.jpg If you want to give it a try, check out my how-to: https://www.rd350lc.de/downloads/MK-Dokumente/en/Auspuffbau_V2_englisch.pdf Fantastic job, both the write up a...

Went to see deadletter last week, support band were sh1te, but deadletter were great. ED3A3CF4-BE68-4F22-A29B-D39C6E6B4E85.jpeg There was a good mosh pit going, so I was having a good laugh down there till the lead singer landed on my head!!. IMG_5059.jpeg I was too busy keeping an eye on the others...

Update from my trip to Leicester to see Harry Barlow. It’s only 60 miles from mine so should have taken just over an hour, except for the 20 mins it took me to find his unit with google paps placing it in a building 50 yards up the road. I Got to a place with the right house number but no signs on a...

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So an update on the saga…. I found a source for genuine Yamaha crank seals and got them ordered, but the hunt for std size pistons wasnt going so well. Talking to PJ Motorcycle engineering (2 stroke rebores and cranks building experts), they advised that the only source of std size DT175 pistons the...

Oh and while I am commenting on bodges that I keep finding, here is a good one.

When I took the LH piston off, there was 2 circlips fitted on the inner side of the small end!!
That was a timebomb waiting to wreck the bore when it worked its way out

Back in bits again waiting for the new seals IMG_5030.jpeg As I have a few days to wait i had a more detailed look at the crankcases. I had spotted that there are a couple of the M6 crankcase threads near the back of the gearbox are starting to fail, so I will drill and helicoil them. More interesti...

Some nice bits on it (well if i hide my eyes from the blue anodised tat), so it not a bad addition.

What the plan for it? Sell off the good bits then flog it as a std bike, or just de-tat it and sell?

No time wasting there Al :thumbup: Well that might not be true! I posted the same photos on the RD forum and one of the guys spotted the oil seal on the clutch side of the crank is fitted the wrong way round in my disassemby photos (the castellated part should face the bearing aparantly. I obviousl...

fabiostar wrote:Gearbox and clutch good..

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Today I stripped the bottom end, washed the crank and both top and bottom cases to get rid of the rest of the broken piston bits. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240315/2f30e67d39190108be620d372874f53d.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240315/2a13bd6734430074f505aebcc1d2068f.jpg https://uplo...