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A couple of spare minutes discovered me progressing the construct a bit additional. Final evening I ordered the engine components from Draganfly; the pistons and massive finish shells have already arrived from the AOMCC Twin Spares chap. They appear glorious:
You may recall the swinging arm has strong bronze bushes instead of the usual metalastik bushes, so the primary job is to suit an angled grease nipple pointed away from the FERC:
The swinging arm goes in simply and is bolted very loosely. It is held up with an previous shock.
I’ve put the steering damper again in; the pin tapped in simply.
Now, I used to be cautious to ask the painter to keep away from grit blasting the oil tank, and he has certainly ready that by hand. Nonetheless, the fork sliders would have benefitted from blanking off as they’re stuffed with grit; I made this swab to scrub them out:
Operating paraffin down the slider within the cleansing tub I swabbed the grit out:
There’s fairly a bit – that was value doing:
I cleaned the fork legs with 180 grit Scotchbrite – they don’t seem to be superb:
I ordered a set of seals and new seal carriers yesterday. At £115 a pair, it is value shopping for a brand new set of hard-chromed stanchions.
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