Hooli's 14 Mk2...

[Mr Gee]

All of that sounds like it's above my pay grade.   

Thank God, my mate knows what he's doing.   

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Awesome job Hooli. I'm sure you'll get MkII up and going again.

Cheers also for the link to those detent grub screws, one of these days I need to have a look at mine on the K3, they're not seized but I don't think im getting full adjustment either.

Re headlight bowl, would be worth checking  on AliExpress.

[grog]

Found this one Hooli.

[KiwiCol]

That's a great price for a headlight surround.  Good find Grog.

[grog]

Headlights same, SV650,1000, GSF650,1200 & 1250.

[grog]

Those plastic grub screws, where do they fit?? Old brain I guess, just can't work it out🤷🏼

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Those plastic grub screws, where do they fit?? Old brain I guess, just can't work it out🤷🏼

as far as I can tell on the inside of the fork leg, near the bottom. They hold the rebound adjuster (the bit that faces backwards with the slotted adjuster) in place.

[Hooli]

Those plastic grub screws, where do they fit?? Old brain I guess, just can't work it out🤷🏼

as far as I can tell on the inside of the fork leg, near the bottom. They hold the rebound adjuster (the bit that faces backwards with the slotted adjuster) in place.

Close, I believe it's the compression adjuster though.

They replace the cup, ball & spring in this pic Grog. It's different on later bikes so not sure if you'd have seen these or not.

The standard bits are 5mm, so the ideal size to tap for M6.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Cheers Hooli, can never remember which is which off the top of my head until I look in the book, but that is exactly the spot I meant.

[grog]

Thanks Hooli explaining👍I don't mess with forks so no idea about later model, K7 mine.

[Hooli]

Thanks Hooli explaining👍I don't mess with forks so no idea about later model, K7 mine.

Yours are in the same place but a better design so don't seize like these early ones.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

I reckon those M6 threaded grub screws with the detent ball would be a worthy upgrade to make the adjuster removable.  Got me thinking...

Also wonder if adjusters (they're basically a valve) from later models or other bikes would improve compression damping?

[Hooli]

I've no idea what the later ones look like inside to know if they'd fit? you'd have to investigate that. I can't say I can feel the difference between the styles of fork when ridden & on the same settings, so it's not something I'd bother to look at.

[Hooli]

Email update this morning - my clock cases are apparently in the UK already! So they should arrive next week, the spring plunger things are due in a couple of days too. So in theory if the weather is good enough I might get a test flight before I go back to work in another week.

[Hooli]

Yeah about that...

Two parcels turned up this morning but the bloody aliexpress morons have only sent two rear cases for the clocks, not two complete sets! which is really useful, especially as there was no option to only buy separate bits when I ordered them. Obviously now there is & it's a lot more expensive for a complete set.

I think I can make up a useable set using some of the old parts, but it'll look tatty which is very annoying as that's why I'd ordered new bits. I've contacted them about parts missing & ordered a complete set at the new higher price - I suspect they'd got the listing wrong before but won't admit it. Assuming the right things turn up next time, I'll return the original order & get a refund for those.

In better news, the other little parcel was the spring plungers & they work exactly as planned. I've thread locked them in & adjusted how stiff the detent was when I fitted them so it feels just nice before the threadlock dried.

I cleaned the fork legs before reassembling the forks as the sides facing the wheel were a bit manky.

Before



After



The spring plungers don't look out of place & being on the wheel side won't be that noticeable anyway.




The forks got rebuilt with fresh oil, seals & dust seals. Then I went to put the front end back together to find I'd missed some damage on a bearing cage for the steering bearings. So I went out & got a bearing set, came home & fitted most of the front end up.



The headlight is only loosely in place as I don't think I can fit the clocks with it there. I just wanted it off the floor to make room for the tank tonight. I removed the scotchlocks from the indicator wiring & soldered them properly. Make sense of this, going from the plug for the loom it went - original wire, new wire soldered on, newer wire scotchlocked to that!

Still to do, something with the clocks, rebuild the front brakes & fit them as I don't trust anything on this I've not done myself, change the awful blue anodised reservoir caps for proper ones, balance the throttles etc, get the shiny fins back, probably paint strip the TBs that have been turned black for the usual stupid reason, plus of course fit some decent bars as the originals aren't going back on.

Seems it's keeping the waveys now, the mate I was swapping with doesn't want a non-matching set & has been told about a set of three you can buy somewhere that do match. I don't know the details of that yet, I'm sure I'll find out when I fit them though.