Last weekend I traveled to the 20. Ratbike Wintertreffen near Ulm. On the campsite I discovered that the final-drive was not transmitting full power to the wheel anymore…
Obviously there are some pieces not in their place. Fortunately they are not important, except if you want to drive.
This weekend I made a huge Inspection on my GS500E when I discovered that the Valve playing on my left exhaust valve was gone. Unfortunately this was the one with the 215er Shim which is the smallest available.
I think the cylinder head is dieing, since the valve is digging deeper and deeper into it. Which is the cause of a lack of
service a few years ago. But why not grind those shims down, drive another 20000 km?
This is how I did it. First I drilled a 2 mm hole with a forstner drill into a piece of wood:
Then I angle grinded one side of the shim down. Being careful not to overheat the shim. When I had the right distance, I finisched it with a sander. I put the grinded and sanded side to the bottom, so the cam can pusch on the original side.
I don’t know how long this will last, but I hope it is better than doing nothing until the engine breaks down.
I must admit, that those Russian drum brakes are not as relieable as i want them to be. Every 2000 km you have to adjust the cable tunings, every 1000 km you have to exchange the cable and also the steal within the aluminium drums is going very thin through the years.
So the cheapest and most propper way to get a better front break on your iron cluster is, to get a hub with a disk and build on the bike. That is what people told me. So I startet a search on several online services and found this for 15 bugs on willhaben.at :
It is a 19″ wheel. I think it is propably from a Honda CB550 or CB750. So the first part of the new diskbrake system is there.
When I am thinking about new constructions I fell over a picture on Flickr:
This is a ruggerini RD210 engine with a centrifugal clutch I can’t see any gearbox on that conversation.
Since the International Diesel Ralley in Hamm came this year again, I finally assembled my Diesel Bike, did 10 km testride and then I rode to the Ralley.
There is a Gallery on Flickr since I forgot my camera on the sofa:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13755101@N03/sets/72157627482397253/
after the ralley I traveled to my dads home for two weeks.
When I was back in Vienna the Spedo says about 3000 km. The Gas cable broke and a Light bulb. Also there are some small oil leaks on the Gearbox I have to investigate. I also need a new Airfilter to get the noise levels down.
Here is the gallery of my clutch repair work. The clutch take out bearing and the Pilot bearing was broken, so I had to move the gearbox 50 cm to the back, exchange the parts and build everything together again.
When you do that work, it will not be bad if you exchange the clutch and the crankshaft seal as well.
Sometimes it is totaly crazy. When you have absolutely no tome, to much projects to much things to do, you receive the coolest things for more cool Projects as a gift.
After the Kubota Engine I build out of that fridge unit a girlfriend wants to scrap her Citroen AX Diesel. So the chassis is going to a friend who builds a bicycle rikscha out of it. I go the Engine for another Diesel Bike.
This is another successfull small project.
Since one year now I have a tunnel to the topsleeper with the trucker bedroom. So I put away my bed and build a new couch corner.
The long side is made by a three seat bank of a small van. In the Corner there is a 600 liter water tank, so simply putting a couch on that place is not possible:
Fortunately that day somebody brought us a cheap couch from an appartment breakup.
It was a little bit of work reshaping the size of the two matresses….
Project worked out…