83 CR500, here begineth the lesson

We know where you live....be afraid...

By the way, was I the only one who got the RJ joke...??

Nice......


Dice caps that is ....

If RJ did ride an open class piston ported motocross bike in the early 80's it would have been a Husky, capable of autofellatio he surely would have favoured a 500AE ?

Everyone else just didn't want to admit they knew who he was.

This won't be complete until you are dressed for success!!!

Spent a while on the carb-reed block flange today. Flowed nicely then bead blasted.

Sweet...whats the little windy grinder you are using...?

Just a little 240v makita die grinder (and a good selection of needle files). Brand new bit, knife through butter. I reckon I might get 10% or more on inlet flow quite easy.

Might have to get one of those to smooth out the flow path on the barrel where the line is a bit too long...

Next is the transfer ports. I reckon its a one size fits all on the crankcases originally from Husky so I reckon they went large on the case casting and then used it for all. I have marked up with some short studs to locate. Bring on the grinder !

Wahooo !!

Nice paint job on the cases how long do you think before shes up and running

A while really. Should pull the crank and cases together this weekend but thats if the dummy case build goes ok. The devil is in the detail. When the pipe is fitted up and goes off for ceramic coating I'll know I'm near. Softly softly catchee monkey...

Looks cracking mate, but the cases look too shiny...they were a satin finish....or did you ask for that colour ?

Its the transfer ports my old man has told me to smooth out hence why I wanted to know the grinder type. I'm still looking at pencil grinders.

Asked for gloss. It was questioned, the guy said 'hope that whats you want cos it aint coming off again!'. Perfect.

Looks like the type of paint we paint offshore platforms with....that doesn't come off either...

Made up a new crank spacer,did a dummy build then pulled the crank in the ignition first as opposed to manual instructions and then pulled everything together with washers. No probs.
I did ignition side first as I got the spacer to .01mm from my measurements so wanted it to pull up hard against that to make sure I got the crank bang on centre.

love the bottles of loctite..its the only way.... reliability increase and approved by the factory......wish i knew this in my bultaco days ! nd by the way that rim looks like a 10 x 17 or 18 let alone a 5 x 17 or 18!