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brad black
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:44 am |
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Pantah600
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:04 am |
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Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:26 am Posts: 175 Images: 6 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Brad, I don't know about this.... Looks kind of cool, but I'm concerned about the length. Cutting these down to length might be tricky. Have you used these before? Did you use them on my other Pantah engine????? Hehe, I'll look into these a little closer. ---Edit: I just watched a youtube installation video and it requires far too many tools. Why wouldn't one just replace the guide?? Otherwise, how busy are you? Cheers mate. Steve
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brad black
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:18 am |
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get a head shop to do it. i use saliba in springvale or hsd in moorabbin.
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Pantah600
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:45 pm |
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Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:26 am Posts: 175 Images: 6 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Ok Brad. Thanks for the tip. Being a bit slack with the bike ATM. Waiting on some extra parts and the painter to get charged up! Keeping you in the loop..... Steve
_________________ "...Honey, it's only a project bike...."
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Pantah600
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:09 am |
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Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:26 am Posts: 175 Images: 6 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Gents, the painter is now ready to commence the frame & swing-arm! Yeeeaaa! Hopefully, I'll have it before Easter to get cracking on to the engine. Speaking of which, I have some photo's of the Gudgeon pin & Piston. Condition comments are welcome, but I'm not paying! The piston prior... Attachment:
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Piston cleaned... Attachment:
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Side skirt... Is this too scored? Attachment:
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And.. the Gudgeon pin... Is this too worn & blued? Attachment:
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At the moment I'm working on the front fork rebuilds and fork braces. Will show them during the rebuild & finished items. Frame & swingarm when I get them from the painter. I've gone for a satin finish rather than a high gloss finish. This isn't a show bike. Busy now..... Cheers, Steve
_________________ "...Honey, it's only a project bike...."
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Pantah600
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:36 am |
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Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:26 am Posts: 175 Images: 6 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Look what we have here.... Attachment:
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Just have to clean the threads and bearing seats and we are into assembly stage. Very excited. It's taken the best part of 2.5 years to get to this stage. Shhhhh, don't tell the wife they're in the spare room... I'm trying to turn it into a assembly workshop. The fork braces are coming along nicely, will get a shot of these soon. Cheers, Steve
_________________ "...Honey, it's only a project bike...."
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shmokica
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:53 pm |
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Joined: Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:28 pm Posts: 83
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Goos stuff Steve, I like the idea of the spare room...
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pat slinn
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:18 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:52 am Posts: 261 Images: 0
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The lack of lubrication of the small end on our F1 & F2 's used to worry me to death, I used to worry that the intense heat to the small ends would either cause a siezure or a gudgeon pin to fail. There was some lubrication that got up there but clearly not enough. I found the answer to be quite a simple mod. I drilled a small hole either side of the flat part of the con rod and in through the journal part of the con rod to the center, I drilled the same size hole in to the big end bearing to correspond with the hole in the con rod. The oil that squirted up to the small end and to the underneath of the piston crown gave enough lubrication to cool both and to completly stop the gudgeon pin and small end overheating.
The scoring of your piston does not look to bad to me, you will enevitably get some small scoring as the TT's were not fitted with a air cleaner.
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brad black
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:17 am |
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pat slinn wrote: The lack of lubrication of the small end on our F1 & F2 's used to worry me to death, I used to worry that the intense heat to the small ends would either cause a siezure or a gudgeon pin to fail. There was some lubrication that got up there but clearly not enough. I found the answer to be quite a simple mod. I drilled a small hole either side of the flat part of the con rod and in through the journal part of the con rod to the center, I drilled the same size hole in to the big end bearing to correspond with the hole in the con rod. The oil that squirted up to the small end and to the underneath of the piston crown gave enough lubrication to cool both and to completly stop the gudgeon pin and small end overheating.
The scoring of your piston does not look to bad to me, you will enevitably get some small scoring as the TT's were not fitted with a air cleaner. photo?
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pat slinn
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Post subject: Re: Aussie TT2 track bike build Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:30 pm |
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Unfortunatly I do not have any photographs of that mod. In the early 1980's people did not seem to carry cameras with them everywhere.
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