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Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:13 am
by dgoodsy
You guys with your workspaces and welders and skills make me envious!
Looks hood Johnu, looking forward to more updates!
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:12 am
by johnu
Suspensionking wrote:Hello Nice build.
I like your foot rests I have seen on your picture of the swing arm mods. Are they one off or would you have a link as to where I could buy those?
Thanks
Eamonn
The actual footrests (the gold part) I bought on ebay, there are lots to choose from on there. The complete rearset parts are from a Triumph Daytona that I had laying around on the shelf.
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:20 pm
by johnu
dgoodsy wrote:You guys with your workspaces and welders and skills make me envious!
Looks hood Johnu, looking forward to more updates!
My work area is the back half of our 4 car tandem Garage!
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:36 pm
by dgoodsy
That's not bad at all! My work area is a small unheated single car detached garage which I have to move the wife's car out of to actually have any room to work. I had to park a motorcycle outside for the winter so she could even get a car in. I guess it's better than no indoor space at all though!
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:36 pm
by johnu
Crank assembly is on it's way back from Bill Bune
Can't wait to start building this thing back up!
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:29 pm
by Jimroid
I look forward to your progress!
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:34 pm
by johnu
All ready for reassembly
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:55 pm
by Zunspec4
Looking good
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:13 pm
by dgoodsy
Nice, it all looks to clean and new! Looking forward to progress.
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:33 am
by johnu
Ok well my excitement has turned to frustration as I started to reassemble the engine I noticed the thread on the end of the crankshaft is severely damaged. I suspect it happened in shipping. Not sure what I'm going to do as it looks way too bad to just clean it up
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:38 pm
by Jimroid
That is horrible.
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:16 pm
by johnu
Well I've dodged a bullet here, had to put on my old craftsmans hat to fix this one
Hacksaw and needle files did the trick! In the pic with the rotor and nut on the shaft there is no lock washer under the nut so it will probably end up right about flush if I just use a shakeproof washer.
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:24 pm
by Jimroid
Very nice save!
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:55 pm
by dgoodsy
Very nice work! My heart kind of sank when I saw the pic of the bent thread, glad you got it to work out.
Re: T500 Special Engine (Ported) Rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:04 pm
by johnu
dgoodsy wrote:Very nice work! My heart kind of sank when I saw the pic of the bent thread, glad you got it to work out.
Me too, didn't think it was salvagable!