Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[catsinthewelder]

I see you have a Yamaha Aerox (or its MBK doppelganger).  Should be there on the Saturday with Daisy and the pink peril but just for the day as I'm taking the girls to Comic Con on the Sunday.

[Six-cylinder]

2 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

I see you have a Yamaha Aerox 

Yes.

I was thinking  of an event like the Edinburg tattoo and a timed reassembly to music!

[catsinthewelder]

We'd best reassemble it a bit,  looks a bit uncomfortable at the moment (especially over that bump just before you get into the main field).. 

[Six-cylinder]

10 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

We'd best reassemble it a bit,  looks a bit uncomfortable at the moment (especially over that bump just before you get into the main field).. 

And there was me worrying about the lack of fuel tank!

It was stripped to make a Café Racer tribute bike.

@Snake Charmer

 

[Six-cylinder]

I have been driving about in the W123 estate again today, I got this fellow to guard it while it was parked!

[hairnet]

Just now, Six-cylinder said:

I have been driving about in the W123 estate again today, I got this fellow to guard it while it was parked!

Think he's just wanting a lift

[chaseracer]

Is that Winslow (not Arizona...)?

[Snake Charmer]

On 3/11/2022 at 9:28 AM, Six-cylinder said:

And there was me worrying about the lack of fuel tank!

It was stripped to make a Café Racer tribute bike.

 

The fuel and oil tanks are there. I did a lot of measuring and planning.........

[wuvvum]

Where were you planning on sitting?

[catsinthewelder]

In other scooter news I've managed to break into the pink one.  Fortunately the battery cover was left off which reduced security to the catch enough to ping the spring off and wriggle it open.  I've removed the cable from the lock so you can open it by hand.

[beko1987]

19 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been driving about in the W123 estate again today, I got this fellow to guard it while it was parked!

I've heard at night if your walking down the road after 2am he comes after you with his big knife and chases you. But when he's just about to catch you, he vanishes... 👀

I always turn up the Horwood road to go to mums just to avoid it 

[catsinthewelder]

The sun is shining and I'm too scared to take an angry grinder to the hopefully surface rust on the Focus so I'm still titting about with the scooter.

It doesn't have a key so I've now bypassed the ignition and fuel cap locks.  Currently you switch the ignition off by disconnecting the jump lead to the battery.  I found some wires that had been cut under the seat so reconnected them and now the starter works.  Still won't start though, plug looks good but isn't sparking and the fuel in the tank isn't coming through.  On the plus side if those bits put it in the scrapyard then the engine might be ok.

[Six-cylinder]

8 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Is that Winslow (not Arizona...)?

I have been to Winslow Arizona and stood on the corner!

[hairnet]

lmfao

 

[Zelandeth]

5 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

The sun is shining and I'm too scared to take an angry grinder to the hopefully surface rust on the Focus so I'm still titting about with the scooter.

It doesn't have a key so I've now bypassed the ignition and fuel cap locks.  Currently you switch the ignition off by disconnecting the jump lead to the battery.  I found some wires that had been cut under the seat so reconnected them and now the starter works.  Still won't start though, plug looks good but isn't sparking and the fuel in the tank isn't coming through.  On the plus side if those bits put it in the scrapyard then the engine might be ok.

It's not modern enough to have some immobiliser nonsense involved on the ignition side of things is it?  

[EightMegs]

If I can get enough jobs done on my Carina before I take it to Wales the weekend after the 26th and then Scotland the week after that, I might be up for going.

[catsinthewelder]

58 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

It's not modern enough to have some immobiliser nonsense involved on the ignition side of things is it?  

If it was Japanese it probably would but the security on Chinese stuff is that nobody wants to steal it.

I've looked and can't see much, can't remember Chris' one having anything special on the key and there's nothing that looks like security behind the ignition switch.

[Zelandeth]

17 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

If it was Japanese it probably would but the security on Chinese stuff is that nobody wants to steal it.

I've looked and can't see much, can't remember Chris' one having anything special on the key and there's nothing that looks like security behind the ignition switch.

Fair enough.  Assume these use CDI for spark rather than an old school magneto?  If so and that appears to have both power and a ground that probably would be my first port of call.  The no-name clone modules for Hondas (at least ten years ago!) were so flaky that a mate used to carry a spare in the luggage compartment - but they were like 20% the cost of the actual Honda part so changing it a couple of times a year still made sense.

From memory some of them ground through the frame too, so that might be worth a look.  Again I'm working from 10+ year old memory here as I've not touched anything like this in forever!

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been to Winslow Arizona and stood on the corner!

Oh my lord, that's a flatbed Ford!

[Floatylight]

4 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Oh my lord, that's a flatbed Ford!

Did you turn around Chris?

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, catsinthewelder said:

If it was Japanese it probably would but the security on Chinese stuff is that nobody wants to steal it.

I've looked and can't see much, can't remember Chris' one having anything special on the key and there's nothing that looks like security behind the ignition switch.

The keys for the other Bikes Direct machine are very plain.

[catsinthewelder]

@Zelandeth I'm going to make a small fuel tank to gravity feed the carb between now and the FoD then see if it'll run with the CDi from the black one.

It's lost all its lights for some reason so I was thinking of using the headlight switch as an ignition switch being as the scooters all go to bed before dark at the FoD for noise reasons.

For that reason I was thinking of bringing the electric bike/scooter down as a silent bog run bike (once someone more talented than me has fixed it).

Thanks @Six-cylinder

[Snake Charmer]

21 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Where were you planning on sitting?

On a new set of frame rails with all the rear junk and original rails removed. I also planned to move the shock in front of the engine operated via a rocker arm or just an arm. Fuel and oil tanks under the GRP tank with electrics and radiator. Cafe racer up top, Scooter below and a shopping basket where the footboards were for beer.

[Six-cylinder]

Todays project was to replace the brake disk on my Peugeot 504 that I slid down the road on when the wheel fell off!

@Andyrew came over to help me and all was going well until we went to put the pads back in and found one of the pistons would not push in. We tried using the brakes thinking if we got it moving then we could work it, but the piston would not come out either. The new disk is 1 mm thicker than the old one so we needed to push the piston back.

The Piston is now off the car and  Andyrew has taken it home to see if he can free it up.

[richardmorris]

Did you have a pad winder tool thingy?

[Six-cylinder]

59 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Did you have a pad winder tool thingy?

Do these wind back?

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

 

 

PHWOOOARRRRRRRRR (and the car )

 

[hairnet]

35 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Do these wind back?

 

[Talbot]

12 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Do these wind back?

No.  You can tell if they need turning at the same time, as the piston will have a cutout notch in it which locates in a tab on the brake pad, stopping it from turning in normal service.

If you've stood on the brakes as hard as possible and the piston still won't move, you're looking at needing a new piston and a caliper refurb kit as a bare minimum... that's if you can get the old piston out somehow.  Heat sometimes helps.  As does a 20T press....

[2cvspecial]

On 3/8/2022 at 6:10 PM, Six-cylinder said:

I am hoping to get an electric Fiat 500 for 3 day. Claimed range 199 miles so it will be interesting to compare.

a relative has one , I liked it -#