Round 3, FOAK: 1982 Kawie KZ550 C3 LTD Restoration Options
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From: M.Badger on 7 Oct 2009 17:04 Biker Dude wrote: > Thanks to all who have helped me so far! I followed your advice, > changed BOTH throttle cables, and the force needed to control the > throttle is much less, the bike is now rideable for at least short > distances. Will take it on a long trip soon and then report back...... > > (The old cables sure looked like a mess when I removed them and > inspected them up close.) > > What about all the stripped screwdriver slots in all the fasteners > that hold it together? Get the nearest size bit to what remains of the head. Coat it lightly in fine valve grinding paste and thump it in. The shock can help break the corrosion and the grinding paste helps the bit grip the head. > I have one machine screw that is busted off > but it's above the casting so I can heat it after I remove the engine > to keep from starting the whole bike on fire. Z-1 Enterprises sells > replacement machine screws for bikes that all have Allen heads. > > My question to the group is this: > > Should I install Allen head screws with anti-sieze compound or Loc- > Tite on the threads to reduce the dissimilar metal corrosion? Stainless steel fasteners with, in personal order of preference, aluminium grease, copper grease or moly grease thinly smeared in to the threads works for me in the land of road salt. > > Biker Dude in the Land of ZATAMM
From: The Older Gentleman on 8 Oct 2009 02:44 1949 Whizzer <macmiled(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 7, 10:35 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > Gentleman) wrote: > > > Anti-seize. Copper grease is fine. > > They salt the roads in England, don't they? Yes, hence the copper grease. Your point? -- BMW K1100LT & K100RS Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER Yamaha XS250 Damn, back to seven bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: 1949 Whizzer on 8 Oct 2009 09:32 On Oct 7, 11:44 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > > They salt the roads in England, don't they? > > Yes, hence the copper grease. Your point? Biker Dude in the Land of ZATAMM may or may not ride on salted roads. AIR, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance began his cross country fugue in Minnesota where it's cold and it snows at lot. However, CalTrans doesn't salt California roads around here so a metallic anti-seize compound is not required. It's more important to have fasteners stay fastened on all day rides on California's high speed roads. And I haven't lost a threaded fastener off of one of my moyotorcycles in years, after using the WD40 and hand torquing technique I mentioned above.
From: TOG on 8 Oct 2009 10:03 On 8 Oct, 14:32, 1949 Whizzer <macmi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 7, 11:44 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > > They salt the roads in England, don't they? > > > Yes, hence the copper grease. Your point? > > Biker Dude in the Land of ZATAMM may or may not ride on salted roads. So? Fasteners still corrode over time, unless you're living in a really dry region. > > AIR, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance began his > cross country fugue in Minnesota where it's cold and it snows at lot. So? What has this to do with things? > > However, CalTrans doesn't salt California roads around here so a > metallic anti-seize compound is not required. So? Who knows where the OP lives? > > It's more important to have fasteners stay fastened on all day rides > on California's high speed roads. So? It's important to have fasteners stay fastened on *any* ride. > > And I haven't lost a threaded fastener off of one of my moyotorcycles > in years, after using the WD40 and hand torquing technique I mentioned > above. Nor have I. And again, your point?
From: 1949 Whizzer on 8 Oct 2009 11:55
On Oct 8, 7:03 am, "The Evil Clown" <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > And again, your point? That you are an argumentative Evil Clown and you will soon claim that I'm stupid for not turning the OP's request for advice into a long drawn out debate and you will then shift over to your version of "humour" and claim that I have no sense of it. |