Tested the thermostatic valve (thermostat) according to the workshop manual. I’m testing this now while it is easier (while engine out of the frame) so that if/when I start the engine again I can have better confidence in the coolant system if I have temperature […]
Projects
All of the posts from all of the projects are here.
The forks. When I first drove the Gamma, which was shortly after it arrived at my place, one of the many things I noted was that the front shocks while still going up and down were in a pretty poor way, with significant rust over […]
Feckin’ fiddly job this. The carburetor had to be cleaned up a bit when I first got the bike just to get the engine to run, so I reckoned it could do with a proper deep cleaning to be sure of running right and […]
The front end. The steering stem. The steering stem is quite a simple section of the bike and I couldn’t write much about it, but because it was the first part to be reassembled after stripping and painting and because there is a deviation from […]
The frame and assorted ironmongery. The frame as I mentioned elsewhere was rusted all over. For reason’s I can only guess at, the area around the HT coil at the back of the steering stem was particularly bad.. and of coarse the swing-arm and monoshock […]
Temp gauge full scale when head light’s are on… I’m driving at low speed in town in the rain and I suddenly realise my engine temperature gauge has gone full scale. I pull in, fearfull of an engine sieze, thinking I have lost my coolant […]
And so it begin’s. As you will see in the next few picture’s, which where taken by the previous owner just before I picked it up, the bike I am starting with appears quite complete, except I’m not sure about the front sticker’s, I […]
The motorbike above is a catelogue example of a Suzuki Rgr125 Gamma (I have never seen that colour scheme in the flesh myself). The last version of this model was apparently in production in 1988 and was produced with small, mostly country specific mod’s untill […]