Recent content by Jose

Cool, thanks for your msg! Ill hopefully find some time this weekend to employ the needle and plyers method. Like in that movie about the russian ww2 sniper: "Caviar is a luxury we have. Vodka is a luxury we have. Time is not"

Thanks for the reply :thumbsup: Ill look for those threads. I guess if none here say its doomed ill try to get it together and test it once i get the motor to run. Well see if more people chime in.

Hi dudesters, so im thinking about getting this old bike running, and got around to doing the carbs after a short span of inactivity (the thing has been dismantled for 7 years give or take). So to my surprise i found both idle jets were jammed in too far, subsecuently got stuck and the tips of...

Cool! Where did you get the slinky fork rubber? JP

Hello all... @Hornix: So do they block the kick/starter lever? Cheers and good times. JP

After I cut the rest of the nut and part of the stud (took me about an hour with a dremel because of the lack of space, I didn't want to damage the aluminium under and around the target), I removed the cylinder head and cracked the case open. I was able to unscrew all of those studs using the...

Excellent. So its off with its head! :D Thanks.

Its the nut I was supposed to remove, but I think its fubar now... So what about those studs :) ?

Heres a thought: Can I cut off part of the stud plus the remainder of the nut with a dremel? Are those long studs easily replaceable? Its number 9, see attachment. Thanks... JP

I had the same problem. I spent some time filing the 12 bolt head to a 11, then hammered an 11 socket on, and it finally came out with help from a ratchet-lengthening-device aka a long piece of old pipe :D. Now I have a much worse problem though... I managed to round off one of the nuts attached...