SS rebuild

[Goat_Herder]

love these build threads!  It's great seeing your bike taking shape.  Keep up to good work and keep those pics coming!

[1KDS]

checking this thread daily, love the fast progress.  Bike is starting to come together and look great!   

[Monsterlover]

Im taking tonight off.  It's 9pm and i wanna watch a movie

hard to believe that bike went from nothing to where it is now in 5 days.

Im timing myself as well.

Im up to almost 16hrs

[redial]

cant wait to see the body work go on and the colors come together!   

[Monsterlover]

So I got back to it today determined to have it running and ready for a test ride. 

Got the tank on



I use a sharpie to mark the tank tubes so I know what hose goes where. I also put a mark with the paint marker on the feed line. I know the return line has a plastic ring on it with a "R" on it but smarter people have done dumber things...

I've had the battery on the tender for days. I'm running that super tiny yuasa. Can't remember the number atm. 

As is it is not enough cca to start this bike. I plan to upgrade the ground and starter solenoid/ starter cables to 8 gauge to see if it helps. If not I'll have to get a bigger battery. 

DP pipes hung in place. I still need to have new hangers made so if anyone has access to a waterjet machine I need your help. These won't pass tech. 



A crash would have the pipes torn off the bike and turned into debris on the track for other riders to try and miss

But for now they are fine. 

The final piece is on!!!!!



I had to use my 12v charger on "start" to get the bike to run. 

As it turns out, low battery voltage/ cca was only one of three problems I had between me and my test ride. 

In the midst of trying to get it to fire I kept smelling something burning. 

Then fluffy stuff stuff started intermittently shooting out of the exhaust pipes!

DOH!!!

The engine had come to me with paper towels balled up and shoved into the intake and exhaust ports to keep stuff out. 

I know I pulled the intake ones. 

I had left one or both paper towell balls in when I bolted up the header pipes

No reason to pull the header pipes when fire will do my bidding

Once most or all of that was blown/burned out it still wouldn't fire up. 

Even on brand new plugs. 

I had the coils switched. I swapped plugs to see if it would help and it fired immediately (on the charger on start)

Final shots-

Idling in the driveway waiting to go on a test ride. 





And after I got back from a five minute cruise



Sara gives me a celebratory forehead cleaning



Everything went ok I think. 

The rear shock needs help. I'd guess I have less than 10mm of sag, not much compression or rebound. 

Don't know why though. I never did anything to the shock other than paint the spring and it worked well for the previous owner. 

The bike seems slow to turn but I'm used to the ktm sumo with wide bars. Actually I think it's pretty good in the front. It seems like it would be stable in  mid turn. 

I could only do so much on cold tires.

In my neighborhood

Hope you enjoyed my little writup. Sorry about the iPhone pics. It's all I had. 

That's all she wrote.... 

[lethe]

 

[ducpainter]

How much preload did you wind in to that spring?

Shouldn't be more than 15mm.

I still think you can make simple hangers that will pass tech with 1"x1/4" aluminum bar stock with some simple bends.

I appreciate the fact you made it yours....I liked it better before.

[Monsterlover]

Forgot to mention that I kept track of the reassembly time with the stop watch on my phone.

Except today.  I forgot to run it today

Im guessing 2 hours today.  Add that to what I've already done and im at 18hrs to rebuild and ride this bike from a pile of parts.

Next time I think Ill be closer to 12

Wait. . .

did I just say next time?

[Monsterlover]

How much preload did you wind in to that spring?

Shouldn't be more than 15mm.

I measured before I took it apart from the head of the shock to the lock ring and made it the same, to the thousandth of an inch, when I put it back together.

I still think you can make simple hangers that will pass tech with 1"x1/4" aluminum bar stock with some simple bends.

I probably will end up doing something like that since there are really no great alternatives.

I appreciate the fact you made it yours....I liked it better before.

Thanks

It wasn't bad before.

I just get carried away.

Paint came out good enough for a trackbike I think.

Im not a painter though.

I can see why you charge what you charge

Wanna ride it at dimby?

[ducpainter]

I measured before I took it apart from the head of the shock to the lock ring and made it the same, to the thousandth of an inch, when I put it back together.

I probably will end up doing something like that since there are really no great alternatives.

Thanks

It wasn't bad before.

I just get carried away.

Paint came out good enough for a trackbike I think.

Im not a painter though.

I can see why you charge what you charge

Wanna ride it at dimby?

Try backing it off to 0 and winding in 15mm. I saw the thing in a pic, and I don't remember that many threads showing.

I may take you up on that. I miss the bike as a 750, it was dog slow and a real blast to ride hard. I miss my Monster a little too. The 2V bikes are awesome at NHMS. The 996 is fun, but you always are muscling the thing around, and the places you need to be on the throttle hard are somewhat less than confidence inspiring on a 100+ hp bike. There isn't much room there...you'll see.

[Monsterlover]

What happened to your monster?

Are you a 4v only man now?

Say it isn't so!

[lethe]

Try backing it off to 0 and winding in 15mm. I saw the thing in a pic, and I don't remember that many threads showing.

I may take you up on that. I miss the bike as a 750, it was dog slow and a real blast to ride hard. I miss my Monster a little too. The 2V bikes are awesome at NHMS. The 996 is fun, but you always are muscling the thing around, and the places you need to be on the throttle hard are somewhat less than confidence inspiring on a 100+ hp bike. There isn't much room there...you'll see.

sounds like a place for a 620 to rule!
going to have to do one with you guys one day

[Duck-Stew]

Nicely built, nicely colored (Du-Ka-Toom-i)...

Just one technical point to add:  As the cable size # goes up, the size of the wire goes down.  If you plan on upgrading from the stock cables (which are 6ga BTW), use some 4ga ones and not 8ga.  That is all...  [moto]

[ducpainter]

What happened to your monster?

Are you a 4v only man now?

Say it isn't so!

I still have the Monster...don't get nervous.

I just don't ride it on the track any more.

[Monsterlover]

Nicely built, nicely colored (Du-Ka-Toom-i)...

Just one technical point to add:  As the cable size # goes up, the size of the wire goes down.  If you plan on upgrading from the stock cables (which are 6ga BTW), use some 4ga ones and not 8ga.  That is all...  [moto]

Gotcha. . .

done many a car audio install in my day.

that being said, there's no way the stock cables are 6 gauge.  Id guess 10 at best.  At least on my bike. . .

I have a bunch of leftover power and ground wire (8 gage and 4 gage) and the 8's are slightly bigger than the stock wire (insulation OD)

Even if they were the same gage I'd bet that my wire would pass more juice as they're braided copper and very flexible whereas the stock wire is pretty stiff.