hopefully these new front wheel bearings will get me to the next meet ....without any gravel rash stan

That's interesting Charlie, I recently replaced the front wheel bearings in the outfit and my bearing suppliers (Seager bearings) offered unmarked (read lower quality) or marked bearings. Of course I had the better quality ones and they were also NTN.

Paul.

What did those run you mate?

OG,

My invoice shows £45 .63 each + 20% VAT, a total of £105.51 for the pair ..........but for some silly reason we always get around 75% discount on bearings so I only paid £27.38 for the two.

Paul.

those bearings were "walk up to the counter prices "

old mate (the boss) usually gives me a better price when i see him on saturdays

cost me (amazingly) a similar price paul $27.40 for both

looks like to me they have that heat resistant seal stuff for the side covers too

just wonder if its worth pulling the sidecovers and checking for grease presence

Thanks guys!

OG

guess what im playing with ?

it will mean the end of that little drip behind the gearbox ..(.fingers crossed )

are we sure that that blooming spring needs so much tension ? what a pita ...

Take a pic or two if you get the chance mate? I've not seen this one yet...

OG

charlie99 wrote:are we sure that that blooming spring needs so much tension ? what a pita ...

It`s the spring pressure that keeps the rear end of the boot oiltight.

(one of the reasons why the lever arm needs to be adjusted to the
correct angle...............75 mm wire length).

sorry og ..its back in

but a breif description is that the spring is about 20 mm (3/4 inch) across and about 70mm long (2 1/2 inch) and wound with about 2 mm spring steel (a bit like a valve spring )

where as the boot itself is only about 25 mm deep ...about 8 mm of which is used to connect up to the flange /mounting

the spring tension is quite high for a spring that size and its final fitted length within the confines of the boot .

and finally, the new boot arangement doesnt have a consatina apearance to allow for compression in the rubber part ...but must be designed to compress the larger flat surface near the rear seal area . i can see this not lasting a whole lot of time ...well thats my opinion , but time will tell

becase of the interference nature of the boot seal and spring arangement (and the fact that my pivot pin is siezed in the rear mounting ) i had to remove the muffler to allow a good swing of the clutch arm downwards .

oh well it gives me a chance to clean up the engine pipes to muffler flange fitup area ...

one of the clamp screws was a pain to undo in a quite restricted space near the gear change lever area ....obviously heat and corrosion had corntrived to make my day more interesting .

It`s a shouldered washer molded into the boot, which act as the seat for the spring.

On the outside of the boot it`s a ridge like a half o-ring, which seals against the flat surface on the lever arm.

Those boots last well Charlie once they are in the spring tension is against the actuating lever and not held by the boot itself. It needs that much tension to work as a return spring on the arm, cable and lever. If your arm pivot is siezed fix it as a tight pivot can lead to a rapidly worn throwout bearing and worn diaphram spring and pushrod.

the actuall arm -bearing is all good ...just one of the end mounts has grown with a little corrosion and is locking the pin to the frame rick. i had previously lubricated the bearings in the arm ...when my clutch cable snapped and the new one siezed up ....

here is the rubber installed ...clean up still to do around the area



the old rubber after some tearing and grashing of teeth to get it out



ill bet you won't notice whats changed



after all its still a work in progress ....just cant stop riding the dear old girl .......onya gerty !

It looks pretty good with the lowers taken off. Neat.

no cigar blakey .... yeah did take the lowers off but thats kinda normal for gerty and the heat round here lately

wasnt it spectacular this weekend ...in the 30s at last ,,..was in windy wellington last week the only thing stopping it from snowing was the ocean warmth along the harbour ...nice ride up your way

blasted slow cars on the peachester range though ...one day ill get a free run at em

My guess is you got the mower out and did the edges.
If that is true, then best you get new line for your trimmer. Edges look pretty dodgy

sorry rossco ...i dont "do" lawns these days ....(got an electric jobby around the back if the owners forget their work tasks for the week ....) yeah their edge work sucks big time .....if i was doing it i wouldnt expect to get paid

guess again !

New discs on the front?

sorry gordo .....i desperatly need some newies i got 2 with similar woops in em

My last guess.. Gerty's had a wash!

I know! You fitted a new what-is-name!

It looks ok, but it's a shame about the colour.

well here goes ...

to be honest ive changed the tyres ...the front "angel st" was past it .....more on this later

i thought the nice new chunky tread on the front "speed demon" would have given it away

last weekends trip up to blakeys over the hills and on further just reinforced my appreciation for this awesome rubber

dontcha like the left hand panieer cover ? ......its actually got paint on it ...yahooo !

mighty warm here today (32+c inside the house ) .... finally relented and turned on the air con ..first time for the year so far .

but doing a little fixing up of the fairing , a little fiberglass and paint work in preparation to our aussie meet out at bingara



great racing at mount panorama ..durring the cure times

With temperatures here this morning at only 1/10th of that Charlie your cure time would have been long enough to walk to the race itself!

Good work there on ironing out the kinks. Looks real smooth from the photo looking forward to seeing the final product.

88

had a bit of an issue with primer and divots in the finish

but from 10 feet away looks ok .....

just waiting for glue to set on the mirror pods

at last gerty has some colour on the front again

Nice orange colour on the blinkers!

would certainly make it easier stan .....just mask off the headlight and seat and walk backwards with a spray gun ?

Looking good I reckon, Charlie.
I just used silastic on the mirror pods on mine. Held together for about 3 years now so far.

Nice job Charlie!

Looking good!

Lookin mighty fine there Charlie, Gerty will just slip thru the air now. Probably won't be able to keep up with you now.

Good to see its coming together mate.

SHINY!!!! You been busy!!!

bit of an update .....lower driving lights fitted up and colour coded this time



some stainless screws round the screen and fibreglass holding together ...

Gone back together nicely Charlie. The stainless windscreen bolts are a nice detail. Leaving the lowers off for the summer, I presume?

88

That turned out really well.

Great job!

Great job Charlie

hey thanks guys ...! not totally happy on the result ...but a joy to the heart to see old gerty ...looking more appreciated ...

i found a place that doesnt want an arm or leg for the stainless stuff ...so thought i might get a pocketfull for the locals on the bingara run ...in a few weeks ...a nice pressie for the mates .

found the right rubbers for bar end weights while i was at the job ...the old 20 something year old rubber o rings inside the handle bars was showing age ...(and a couple were missing ) well see if that improves vibrations

just had an urgent call from alby for some assistance ,,,so plans have changed for the weekend ...

heading up to kingaroy tommorrow tools in tow ...and waiting to find out if parts are needed ....so bert ..sorry mate, it might have to wait till next weekend for the relay hookup ...unless you can travel up to peanut country ??? tommorrow .

seems gerty will be getting some nice fresh premium fuel to liven up her weekend huh ?

away trip next week for work ...seems the christmas rush season has already started ..

The bike looks great and I like where you installed your driving lights.

Looking great mate!

Gerty Looks a treat now. Thanks for the help Charlie!!! Talk about brain-fart...

no worries alby ...glad to be able to help ol mate again please thank nick and yourself for the great hospitality

btw lost that bit of perspex out of the back box ..along with my "good " balaclava somewhere between kingaroy ond yarraman ...bugga bugga bugga ...sorry ...im sad about that ...the lid jumped up (i guess over a pothole i missed ....erm hit )

hey bert ..! yes that paint does seem to affect the sliping through the air ....on the way up to kingaroy ...i tagged along with a "green p plater" on one of them kwakasaki newby things ...any how he caught up with me about wivenhoe dam after rejoining the road at fernvale ......he was all over the place with constant speeds ,,,so i took the lead and settled on a nice 5 k and stuck there for many killometers ...just to educated the guy ...every now and then he would break out and try some thing ...erm impressive maybe ? (no chance against the mighty "k" bike ...especially "gerty " in her new trim) .....these guys just dont get it ...on a few occassions whilst following this guy after a passing - over take of some slower vehicles he would push that little green thing out ..... of corse not wanting to show off ...i would let him go for a bit after which he would drop back and settle on "the speed "

anyhow on two occassions he really gave it a mighty fistfull ...which kinda caught me unawares ...so i let him get a little way in front ...(up near 6 k for us blokes ) and catch up with the widdle blighter in an almost blinding fashion ...i was thinking these jap bikes might be good ,,,but not "that good " he better learn some respect for the old and greying "k" bike ( or is that the riders of them ???_)

i guess he tried to shake me more than 3 times ...but would back off as i caught up real quick ...on the last occassion (just north of togulawah ) there is a mighty 5 killometer odd straight and a line of cars slowing it all up. he jumped a couple in between traffic and got away a bit ...yeah thats ok ,,,he was really giving it some on the last pass ...i stretched old gerty and was up on his bum in no time flat ..(well over 7.5 k to do that , took the whole lot of cars at the same time ) back to 5k speeds till the left turn to up the hill on the kilcoy turn off ...he slowed to a stop at the turnoff ...looked sideways at me winked, thumbs up and motioned to me .. the lead up the hill

YES !!!!...we have a convert

yay the mighty "k"...

i guess the paint did it ?

giggles

Niiiiiice.

I bet the younger whippersnapper went and told his mates about this old codger he couldn't shake!

Good story Charlie. Had me smiling.
Glad you are arriving at Bingara from the north and I don't have to keep up with you.
I hope Mr Klompy is a slow coach.

watch out for rick on the yellow peril

the younger ones still dont understand that these bikes arent slow and they handle quite well (no wonder the cops liked them)and think as you get older you forget how to ride til they educated by someone like charlie

Yeah I have 2 mates in Warwick about 60k north and they both had VFR 800 Hondas, on our favourite bit of road I always gave them a good flogging and they never could get past me or even keep up, so one day they both bought FJR 1300 Jamjars (not so they could beat me but that was part of it I think) and then decided to try me out on the same road they found it a bit easier to keep up with me but never got past after I outbraked them into the first and second corner.
One day a bit later one of them said would I like a ride on his FJR and did a swap for 60ks and after that ride I was noncomital but he said he found out why I liked the bricks.
I haven't got the heart to tell them to do an advanced rider training course as neither can ride well and they have some very bad habits.
I think that they have been riding together for so long that they learned each others bad habits.

rossco ...im a slow coach ....erm most of the time ...100 - 110 is fine with me

know what you mean rick ...poor sods

yes the yellow peril is always up the pointy bit col ...lol... ulrick likes his machine good and fast, he and another guy (rickety ?) took off from us over the hills around oberon ...(on the way down to araluen ) me and tom just held rear guard ...

good find out at gatton swap meet

my new purple and red boots look good now

OMG your gonna look like a disco queen in them or is that boy racer ??? Just need to dye them now to match gertie

also found "just the thing" for a fuel cooler

bargain



just about perfect for the job ,,heres a pic to get some perspective

not sure of the final position