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Today in The Lunch Room, I ordered a new OEM choke knob from a Suzuki dealership from our mates down unda’. The rest of the globe is without them, but My new best friend Mick said he’d get one to me asap.
I also bit the ebay bullet and ordered an exhaust seal for $25. In the mean time I’ll try to rig it was aluminum foil and ducting tape, because I’m not sure the new seal will solve my problems. The main problem is the clamping surface (oversized female which accepts some of the seal) has rusted away. Technically there ain’t much left to clamp onto, so I’ll have to figure that out as well.
Sure hope my fork seals show up soon, the weather is far too nice for my bike to be in this many pieces still.
We were coming down a No Exit road, and apparently I found some sharp debris in a mud puddle, while negotiating a downhill off camber washout. (Finn, about 200m before the waterfall crossing) I still don’t know what exactly cut me, but I thought I had de-beaded my tire till I got out to look. Only had to drive forward 2 truck lengths till a nice flat spot, then James and I had it changed out and strapped to the roof in less than 10 mins.
Glad the full sized spare still had good air pressure, hadn’t checked it in 2 years haha.
Oh hey there Duratrac, why aren’t you on Redee?
Today in The Shop, my DR600S barked to life!! Not without some fuel leakage problems, I think some tank debris got stuck in the float valve. Had to pull the carb bowl off again, but overall we’re lookin’ good now!
I think the carb might be a little lean cause it got pretty hot, and lots of crackling, but it may also be from the huge exhaust leak I have. Apparently I’m missoing a gasket between the header pipe and muffler, a silly $20 part that I should be able to get locally.Attachments:
That elbow grease sure paid off, looks great! That seat sure looks comfy, inviting for a long haul.
What are Clubmans?Good ideas on disassembly. Once I can test and confirm the old tach works, I’ll proceed to remove the ebay tach and explore. The chrome trim ring on the front spins around pretty easy, could prolly pop it off and start disassembly through the face of the gauge.
My Plan is to test fire the motor on Sunday. Feeling a little anxious already, even though I heard it run very briefly in August before I started disassembly.
I have an ambitious plan (err, more like idea) to retrofit my OEM tach into the ebay cluster. Physically it should fit, all come down to whether my OEM tach still works, and if I can get the ebay tach taken apart without china plastic exploding everywhere.
Flasher relay, spoke skins and mirrors should be arriving in the mail today, just in time for another lockdown. At least I’ve got something to keep me occupied for a little while.
Stay tuned.
Sweet bike! I can hardly remember the last toy I bought that was wife approved haha….Usually just tolerated.
Lookin’ forward to hearing your plans for this bike.
I still can’t believe she hasnt sold yet, the price alone woulda had me jump if I was looking.
I test drove “your” truck in 2011, woulda bought it except for inflexible price and what looked and felt like gold velvet interior.
Last night in The Shop, my DR600 got tons of attention, and I knocked out a bunch of tasks. Stayed up too late and am paying for it this morning.
Roughly in the order I worked on stuff, my list from last night below
– [x] Clean fork seal clips
– [x] Test & repair brake light
– [x] Test and repair plate light
– [x] Rewire both rear indicators
– [x] Test bRake switches
– [x] Repair kill switch wire
– [x] Mount front brake master cylinder
– [x] reWire ebay gauges
– [x] Test & replace headlight bulb
– [x] Install wiring final
– [x] Install tail section and rear fender
– [ ] Install body panels
– [x] Clean front caliper
– [x] Replace front brake pads
– [x] Install hornIn my pictures below, I believe everything that’s bolted on can stay that way. And the gauge pinning and harness repair was a complete success. The olny poop part is that the tach will only ever read 0 as it’s mechanically driven where the DR uses a coil signal somehow. No big deal.
Matt has respectfully declined that Connie. He does our selling, and is particular on what he likes to sell, and custom bikes are not on that list. He shot down my WarBird build too.
Ohh, I thought Dave Mopar guy and MPP were the same guy.
Any timeline on getting the new bike?
Woot woot! My rare like Unicorn tears OEM Dust Seals arrived! Just waiting on the oil seals.
Over the last couple days I got the ebay tach pinned out, and got the front turn signals working again. Simple fix, just a little corrosion at the bulbs.
C’mon oil seals and flasher relay. Hopefully those are the last pieces I need.
