The front calipers were a joy to work on, no corrosion to pistons, brake pads like new, just a full set of seals purchased for the refurb.

The front wheel & brake alignment has been completed also.



A new set of discs has been purchased also.

Decided it was time to work on the brake calipers I had bought a few months ago. The rear looked poor but came with the mounting bracket at a sensible price. The plus point was that the brake pads were as close to new as possible, however the internals were not so inviting. The caliper was sold as t...

New items bought over the past few weeks to keep the project moving.... new parts.jpg koso_rx4.jpg Decided that the Koso RX4 was a suitable candidate for an ELR retomod. fuel sender.jpg Tested as much of the functionality as possible, including the new fuel sender unit. It all seems to work well. Th...

Started working on the seat recovering a few days back, in fact I've found it much trickier to recover than I expected. I don't think it helps that the seat is stepped. I first tried securing the front inside the pocket and then pulling the cover to secure the rear. I found this tended to cause the ...

Excellent work going on there. I have this task to complete on my bank of carbs. I'm more nervous about this job than pulling the motor apart. Any lessons learned/tips gratefully received. Cheers My tips would be:- 1. keep items from each disassembled carb in separate containers. 2. An ultra sonic ...

I've been working on an old set of BS34s that I purchased as not working, slide#4 was seized solid and a little butchery had been done by someone using a screw driver to try and pry it free. Anyway how time flies, it has taken me 8 days to do the strip, clean and rebuild. Cleaning was mainly done us...

Some photos showing more detail if interested.

I managed to get the rolling chassis completed today before the weather turns wintery. A couple of pictures of progress to date showing what fits with what. I spent a good deal of time after Xmas trying to work out what might fit, what wheels looked good and items that could be used with minimum cha...

Any idea why someone cut the front face off the rear engine / swingarm mount bracket LHS? Seems a bit randon unless there was an outrigger support welded on there for the drive sprocket! AL Hi Al, I have no idea or info as to why but that is how the frame came, but I expect you are probably correct...

Then a quick check in the frame, put a 3D printed bush in the swingarm to simulate bearing and sleeve. Also put on some old Z650 shocks to see how it fitted. Also shows that the left shock mount of swingarm needs to be moved inwards.

Here are the photos of the swingarm chop.

project has been slow but trying to gather a selection of bits a pieces to put a rolling chassis together...Anyway I have an XJR1300 swingarm that needs a slight chop to get it to fit. I decided to have a practice with some aluminium tube and jig made using 3D printer. The results were OK so I decid...

Why do you want to use a zrx stem, I used a j stem pressed into billet yoked for my Lawson. Not sure iff a zrx stem would fit. Rob As far as my investigating goes it shows that both J and ZRX share the same sized steering head bearings hence it seemed an easy route to go rather than have billet yok...

I'm looking at fitting a ZRX steering stem to a Z1000J frame and wanted to know if there are any differences in the top yoke design between the 1100 & 1200 models. I'm not worried about fittings for ignition or instruments, I would like confirmation on the geometry for the forks. ie can you have...

Clutch friction plate is in back to front, others also perhaps. Outer dished part of the sprocket lock mechanism is on back to front. It has a double hex which locks the head of the bolt. You can masking tape across the front face of the rotor drum after a good clean up and fill the gap with ordina...