While I was still feeling my way around a rebuild project, a Suzuki dealer whom I since have come to know quite well turns round and says “you know I was thinking I might still have an old rg round here somewhere….I’m sure I […]
Oct 082012
Suzuki
Suzuki projects.
Oct 082012
It’s my first encounter with the “part can’t be got” situation on this project. Unfortunately, as far as I can find out, there’s a good chance that Suzuki never supplied this part as a separate item from the shock unit. What I am referring […]
Oct 082012
I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to this part of the bike during the strip down, I suppose partly because it was removed early on and partly because it isn’t that complicated and appeared to be in good nick. However, when it was […]
Jul 292012
Not so much a rebuild and more a rescue. The story behind this bike, at least with respect to it’s last owner, is remarkably similar to the Gamma. The previous owner had gone abroad some years ago leaving the bike in it’s used but relatively […]
Jul 062012
My original plan is aborted. (isn’t it always…sigh). Since I had gotten the engine to run relatively easily (he says now that the bruises are fading), I thought I would leave the engine alone for this year (2011), aside from a bloody good cleaning […]
Jun 292012
Similar to the thermostatic valve test only less thread and more wires. I still need the pot of water and the means to both heat the water and measure the temperature of the water in real time. I don’t want to totally submerge the probe […]
Jun 222012
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 […]
Jun 222012
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 […]
Jun 182012
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 […]
May 232012
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 […]