Much easier to strip of all your gubbins and lie bike on an old matress or cusions etc on the bikes side. :wink: lol - http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii238/silvermachine38/Bike%20Stuff/gsxrsleeping.jpg ~Jay. Made me laugh anyway :lol: Get the engine out today, with help from two strong men, wer...

I am about to remove the engine from my Z1R to clean up, have followed the manual to remove all the bits ready, two bloke coming to help out, timber platform made same height as the frame to slide onto, trolly jack ready, do I need to remove the cam cover, looks very close for clearance, or even the...

Oh yes put mine on this weekend, just the job

Aye up northwestern folk, can anyone point me in the direction of a local firm or person that can clean up a bank of carbs from my Z1R, just the outside only, ie soda clean etc, gentle to the touch!

NGK for sure

Well, I changed the plug cap, no diff, changed coil, no diff, replaced points and checked for wire short, no diff, even changed the condenser, no diff, changed the plug for another I had laying around, nope, pulling my hair out I went through all the connections, nope, swapped the plugs over and hey...

I have rebuilt my smoking z250 over christmas, the problem it turned out were worn rings! anyway, the problem I have now is with the ignition, it wont fire properly on two cylinders, the left side just will not do as it is told, I noticed today that when its going on one cylinder, when I remove the ...

alfacity wrote:Thanks for your help
How can I contact compoz1r I could locate him on user search

Just use the PM, search for his title, easy

Compo did grab rails, which I had one, very good too, dont know of a luggage rack, had a Tower one on my 1978 bike

Nice one Goeff

Not strickly a bike problem but tool advice (down Jimmock), got a second hand gunson timing gun, trouble is the light only flashes every few seconds, not fast at all, using it on my z250, 12 volt, is the gun fecked or am I not using it?

Yep, theres talent and there is talent, we have tracey 'feckin' emmin or some knob that dresses as a ugly tart!

Called in to Z Power, spoke with the man, he told me alot about the z250, all the faults etc, the top end con rod is lubed by splash from below, oil starvation was a problem with this model, mainly the crank in early models, and the top end and cam, because of oil starvation, due in general to the o...

Well finally got round to stripping the engine down, took the barrel off and found the pistons to be lightly scored, when checking the ring gaps I found that they were very worn, the ring end gaps were well beyond the service limit, still had the old piston and rings which had done 10,000 miles, che...

Bugger, the old type.