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ive reviewed my posts in thunderstruck am feeling a bit guilty about hijacking Slow and wobblies thread about his build. Must have been a blood rush about finding another 550 owner, or that i have had a few alcohol free days this year, so ive decided to start this thread and give Slow and Wobbly's Thunderstruck thread back to him. Thanks for the inspiration Wobbly.

Last edited by davo231481 on Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:18 pm, edited 2 times in total.

so today I have removed the air lines from the front forks. i was going to weld over the hole but concerned about the appearance and effect on the chrome tube. so i tapped the exisitng hole and plugged it with a 3mm staino screw.


i used thread sealer to stop any leaks then dremelled away the burrs where i cut the screw, so that it didnt foul the o ring on the spring cap. it looks clean and i didnt have to worry about any weld splatter. the plugs will be covered over by the clip ons when i get some.

hi does anyone know what bike this fairing may have come off?

http://www.motographite.com/2011/10/kaw ... -beat.html

Looks like its based on Dunstall but different.

hi does anyone know what bike this fairing may have come off?

http://www.motographite.com/2011/10/kaw ... -beat.html

Great looking bike !! I would think that the fairing was made specifically for that bike, not a fairing that came off something else. It does look a bit like a Dunstall fairing, but just had better lines which suit the rest of the bodywork nicely.....

Agree Gos looks bloody fantastic!

It's pictures like that which make you think of undertaking a new project

until you think of the 7 unfinished projects you already have

plastic rubbed back with 800wd. now to work out the graphics, After finding the silver and black/red bike im keen to locate a 1/2 fairing for mine. I am on the lookout for 84/85 oem one should anyone know of one around.

well heres an updaqte on the bikes progress.
I knocked up an engine stand and started cleaning up the spare motor. the previous owner had removed the cylinders and allowed all the crap and corruption to fall into the sump. so i ripped off the sump and there is this grey crap stuck in blobs on the bottom of the sump. I showed my learned neighbour who suggested it may have been a molykote type product. it looked like anti seize gone wrong. Ive got some pics to put up when i get a moment.
So this discovery now gives me an inclination to using the original motor and doing a weld repair on the engine casing which i was hoping to avoid by cleaning the spare engine.

Dont you just love those little surprises that stuffs up your plans A bloke said to me the other day i should get this and do that to my zrx and my reply was after the shit i am going through to get my bikes back to original with the modifications that have been done i am going to leave this old girl the way she was born so nobody will go through what i am going through .

yes it was real wake up call when i saw the dead centipede/grub thing curled around the sump plug post. I thought of calling bear grills and asking if he'd owned this engine at one time.

heres a shot of the sludge living at the bottom of the sump. My other mate said it was sludge from water in the oil and as i cant find it anywhere else in the motor Im inclined to listen to his advice.

bit hard to see but water in the oil will go grey like that and after a long period will turn into sludge ,so maybe give it a good clean and if you want to get particular you could get it blasted to bring it back to new

30 years of sludging around the bottom and it got very thick in some spots. cleaned it up a bit with some old( a couple of months old) two stroke and its done the trick. no sludge, bugs or grit.

you will often get condensation in the old motors which will manifest itself as sludge eventually. Air-cooled motors don't get water in the oil as a general rule.....

I love that MFP photo at the top of this page .....pity its a Honda - but can you imagine that rig with some lights and a rego label ?? mmmmm tasty biscuit.

yeah that bike is the goods. I am really inspired by the whole package but its the colour scheme that first caught my eye. BTW sludge no more in the motor. Is there any way i can change the name of this thread to " Sludge Dread" . Spent today cleaning bits and pieces and removing old gaskets in between other jobs.