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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]