Hooli's 14 Mk2...

[grog]

So where you live Hooli, house with a shed would average price be? Just wondering.I have no idea.

[Hooli]

So where you live Hooli, house with a shed would average price be? Just wondering.I have no idea.

I'm in a rough ex-mining village that's one of the cheaper places to live in the UK. Even here a 3 bed semi-detached is £100k or more & if you're lucky you get a prefab concrete garage like mine. Google says that's nearly $200 Oz dollars. Go down south & you could double or triple that for a similar house.

[Hooli]

Some progress on the MK2 14. You can check back on the pics to see how far I got. It always takes longer to rebuild them as there's lots of little jobs to do on the way like fix the seized rear caliper and retap a damaged thread on a pulley peg hanger. Also new bushes on the gear lever so it's got less slop.
I can't find my spilt pins so couldn't fit the rear brake pedal etc and having added all the missing washers and spacers to the rear can hangers, the aftermarket bolts that came on the bike are too short.





I noticed while putting things back that it came with two sex toys rammed up the exhausts, they've obviously been removed as it was too quiet when I heard it run.






Now I've got a list of bolts to go buy replacements for. Some I already knew about and others I didn't. All the lower engine mounts, that I knew about and now the exhaust hangers. I'll get those in town when I've got chance. I had to stop at this point as it's still cold & my back doesn't like it, so rather than be crippled tomorrow I took the sensible option.

I'll tell ya what though, the more I do on this bike, the more filthy I realise it is. I thought it was clean when I bought it, but it's not even as clean as I wash a bike. That'll get sorted once it's mobile & taken outside. No point currently when dragging filthy fingers over it & stuff.

[T250]

I noticed while putting things back that it came with two sex toys rammed up the exhausts, they've obviously been removed as it was too quiet when I heard it run.

gotta let em breathe Hooli   

[Mr Gee]

Liking what you've achieved so far.   

Realise it's still, a way off but can't wait to see the finished article. 

[Hooli]

I heard this morning the seat is done, so I'll need to collect that soon.

If I can remember to get some split pins this week I'll do a load more next weekend. Current plan for the next session is - finish rear brake & bleed it up after touching up the black paint on the caliper, strip & rebuild the clutch slave cylinder, replace the vacuum pipes before they're an issue then balance the throttles, replace the heavy duty clutch springs with proper ones & maybe do the advancer mod. That'll just leave the steering bearings to check & grease, fork oil to change & front brakes to check over. I'm tempted to get the fork legs down the polisher as I don't think they're quite as good as the swing arm looks, but I'll see once it gets outside.

In theory it's on the road for April.

[Hooli]

The odd thing is though, the more I look at it & work on it. The less I like it as it's not 'my 14'. That might change once it's on the road, we'll see.

[Hooli]

I heard this morning the seat is done, so I'll need to collect that soon.

If I can remember to get some split pins this week I'll do a load more next weekend. Current plan for the next session is - finish rear brake & bleed it up after touching up the black paint on the caliper, strip & rebuild the clutch slave cylinder, replace the vacuum pipes before they're an issue then balance the throttles, replace the heavy duty clutch springs with proper ones & maybe do the advancer mod. That'll just leave the steering bearings to check & grease, fork oil to change & front brakes to check over. I'm tempted to get the fork legs down the polisher as I don't think they're quite as good as the swing arm looks, but I'll see once it gets outside.

In theory it's on the road for April.

Hmm, I forgot remove the god awful black spray paint over the headlight & clocks as well. Plus buy some bars, I know the ones I want but haven't ordered yet as a mate has them & wants a change. So if I buy their new ones I get theirs, won't cost me any more & I'd be swapping their bars anyway...

[Mr Gee]

The odd thing is though, the more I look at it & work on it. The less I like it as it's not 'my 14'. That might change once it's on the road, we'll see.

You haven't had the chance to ride it yet, so you haven't actually, taken possession of it. That might change once you get to ride it. 

On a different tack, even though you have a long way, to go, it's looking a lot, better than when you started on it.     

[KiwiCol]

You're not getting confused between Hoolis 2 gsx's are you Mr Gee?   Hooli has definitely ridden Mk2.  His original is still in a sad state awaiting repair.  The upgrades etc here are for Mk2.

[Mr Gee]

Well chaps the project to sort out my new purchase and get it how I want it started today. If nothing else it's made me rather glad I hadn't tried to ride the thing first. The plan for the day was to get the swingarm out and the other bits I wanted to send for polishing. That's achieved with a few changes to the list as I went, I've decided the pegs & hangers will go for proper polishing as there's lots of surface marks on them so they'd look tatty compared to the professionally polished bits.

I started by removing the rear brake ready to take the wheel out, first thing off was the chav tat torque arm. Which doesn't even fit properly! The proper one as an S bend about an inch across to line up & this thing is a flat bar so had to be forced into place. Then the rear bolt was too long on the shank so didn't clamp it up as they'd used the original bolt. The next bit of joy was the banjo bolt was barely finger tight & the brake caliper was almost empty of fluid, oh & both pistons had seized in the caliper.

For reference, here's the difference in the torque arms.



The wheel came out ok, except the spindle was half stuck due to very old grease that'd gone solid. Shocks came off & again the pivots were very sticky due to no grease so the suspension won't have worked smoothly.

Before I could drop the swing arm out I had to remove the engine bars as their brackets covered the swing arm pivot. They were coming off anyway so no loss there. I did find the engine mounts were only finger tight, bolts too short (you need longer ones with engine bars) and one of the threads into the frame is damaged so I need to sort that before it goes back together. Oh & they'd lost a washer for the front engine mounts & just not bothered with one on that side. But they had managed to do those ones up.

The swing arm came out fine after that, although they'd cocked up the rubber fittings for the chainguard. Rather than put one each side of the metal, they'd put one behind the bracket & added an extra nut to retain it!. A bit of time was spent draining the rear brake system so it's not dribbling fluid over the bench & such. Then the footpeg carriers and pillion peg brackets came off, revealing that the E-clip retaining the peg pivots was missing on two out of four pegs. Oh & one of the threads for the bolts holding the pillion brackets on has been stripped & forced in at an angle to start it. So that needs a helicoil before it goes back on. As is also traditional now, they'd lost a bit & just left it out, the six bolts that retain the rider's footpeg brackets have rubber washers behind, but only five washers were fitted. Oh yeah & the split pin for the rear master cylinder had been reused even though it'd half snapped off, the rest snapped as I spun the pin to find the end of it.

The rider's RH footpeg as removed, with missing E-clip.



That's everything I'm doing at the backend apart so I moved forwards & the first thing I noticed was the rubbers on the tank brackets are fitted wrong, they're stacked up on top of the tank rather than around what they should retain. I've left that for now, the tank is going to come off for several jobs on another day so I can do it then.

There's an random flasher unit looking thing added to the wiring too, no idea why. I'd suspect the non-standard indicators fitted flashed wrong so rather than buy a LED compatible relay that replaces the original they've bodged this in.



I'll work that out at some point & do things properly. I've actually got a spare LED relay on the shelf anyway.

Then just so it looked like I'd done something useful I've removed two more bits of chav tat, the awful fake carbon fibre around the petrol cap & edges of the tank.

Before





After




The petrol cap doesn't look amazing as the stick on polished top leaves a lip of normal alloy showing & stands slightly proud of the tank. I might take the extra off & just clean & paint the original cap in black so it fits in. I'll think about it.

Finally the oil cooler guard came off, I'll see if it can be polished as the matt black finish looks crap. As is typical of what I'm finding on this bike, it had washers on one side of the bike but not the other & three rusty bolts & one stainless one. I'll sort that out when it goes back on too.

But anyway, all the bits that came off went on the lawn to keep them out the way, except the back wheel as I found a place for that. So here's the pile of junk before spreading around back under the bike.



The bike has been left like this, but covered up again as the roof leaks when windy and stops me scratching it when walking past.



Not a bad three hours really. I've got everything off I need to send for polishing and found a load of issues to sort as I go.

Not according to Hooli. 

[KiwiCol]

It appears I stand corrected. I was sure he rode it when he brought it, but there ya go.

[Hooli]

Nope, I saw it run in the blokes garage. Shoved it in a trailer & bought it home to take apart. I'm rather glad I didn't ride it with all the dangerous stuff I've found wrong with it so far.

[Hooli]

Very minor update. I read the manual to check how to do the clutch springs, then got distracted & rode Snotbox to the pub after washing & waxing the tractor.

[KiwiCol]

No point in rushing these things,