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Cheers mate. I have the Abbastand with front end lifts that works for me. Just waiting on parts then I can stick up a pic or two of it finished in road trim. It’s looking nice now. Then ride til end of this month. Then service. Then track conversion.
Finished all the cosmetics as the final road part turned up today (exhaust faux heat shield). That cost me a massive. £12.00 Fitted the Brembo brake pads as the OE ones were pretty low (original if Im not mistaken) and cleaned up the pistons. Then a very quick spin to bed them. And here she is, in road trim (plus a few trinkets Ive picked up like the rear sets, filler cap and CF tail piece for the TORs Exhaust). Now to ride it for the rest of the month then service all other bits (plugs/air filter, fluids etc). Then turn into the track bike, for which I have acquired everything necessary other then suspension. Considering what i paid for it and how it looks now, I think conservatively, its worth around £3750 - £4k. If so, I've more than doubled my money with the road parts only fitted. Happy days.
CF mudguard is repaired and functional, if not as pretty as I had hoped - it has some misting where the CF is thin. I have a plan to make it a bit better though which will involve some vinyl wrap. Changed out the brake fluid for the Motul 660. Ordered suspension front and rear - gulp. This is getting serious now.
Brakes now really good having bled up and new pads. Very strong and great lever feel. Ordered a new front sprocket that arrived this am. Down one tooth, keeping standard rear and existing chain for now (525) as lots of wear left. But if a faff to change. Rearsets off. Gear link off. Gear change pivot off. Sprocket cover off, minding 2 drain hoses. Rear wheel axle undone. Bang wheel forward. Knock back tabbed washer. Moss Impact Whizz gun and nuts off. Sprocket off with two fingers @West Cork Paul New one on and everything torqued up with one torque wrench. Happy day’s. Then another parcel arrived with lots of used track goodies. Bit scruffy but gives me more budget on suspension.
Service underway. Check out this air filter And the guy was an oil rig maintenance engineer! Obviously short of time or motivation. Changed plugs while the bike was apart. What a faff the number of things that have to come off to do that! Stuck in some iridium NGKs so should be good for a while now. Also fitted pressure read brake light switch to keep it easy if I ever get it MOT'd again. Plus engine protection covers while fairings are off. Next job is coolant and replace the rubber hoses with Samco ones that I got from D675 forum member with the engine protection.
Full coolant flush and hoses changed. Biggish job required tank, fairings and radiator off. I cut the front hose off or the headers would have to come off too.
Why would the header have to come off for the hose?! And what have you done with the replacement if you’ve cut the original one off?
Good question Paul. It’s more the hose clips than the hose. They are original as put in by the factory. For some reason only known to Triumph the screw/nut heads for the jubilee clips for the short water pump hose are completely inaccessible without at least hinging (not removing) the rad. To get access to the screw I then had to use a spring shaft driver on the top clip. The simplest way to remove after that was to cut the hose in the middle and drop the clamp down and off rather than up. So I sacrificed the hose. On the Triumph forum people often say that remove the rad and headers that way no need to cut the hose. I put the replacement samco hose in hot water and it was then malleable enough to get on fairly easily. All jubilee clip screws are now accessible with minimal faffage not like when it left the factory.
