Apologies! Getting confused between threads. I was thinking of the thread with the polished and very nearly severed vertical belt
couldn't find any specifically, they are a pain with flange on the cam sprocket/early type and maybe popping them off is the best solution in the long term (as T/portboy has done).
True Chris, even with the idlers removed you would still using force to fit the new belts over the shielded wheels possibly damaging the new belts. Belts all fitted now, tensioned each belt separately each piston TDC, spun over by hand and re- checked timing dots OK.
Had an hour or so in the cave, bit damp and cold........... progress so far. Picked up fender / fairings from paintshop nice job. Paint matched with Hyundai Hip Hop Red £90 for the whole job Paint/ prep work / respray. Oh i picked up a pair of these "Big Foot" cool.
i was expecting £250 +, just a good old boy works out of his Mam's converted Farm barn, up on the mountainside, i paid him a ton excellent job.
I guess it's a straight forward paintwork exercise without the fancy decals inplay that keeps the price down,but nevertheless very cheap compared to all the other sharks out there.
It's a welsh thing here in the valleys, nobody intentionally rips you off. I've got some decals not quite the originals haven't made up my mind yet.
I bought sufficient paint to paint the tank, fairing and seat, primer(2 pack), base coat and colour coat (water-based) and 2 pack lacquer and it came to nearly £200 so you have done very well.
yes, considering the right hand fairing had a poor repair around the indicator which he attended to as well.
I got my paint from bike colours and got a local car paintshop to do it for a couple hundred more. There's a local bike paint specialist in Fife that quoted me £1500!!!! Seen their work and is top notch but even then, that's so much money
wow, just couldn't afford them kinda of bucks, besides i'm a great admirer of gentle refurbs that retain as much originality as possible. ( My excuse anyway.)
I did my paint job with rattle cans........ Three of Ford Radiant Red; one of white; one black; two primer; two lacquer.
That looks excellent for rattle cans. Every time I've used them it looks like a two year old has done it.
I will admit I had some good advice from Sev. The trick is in masking and rubbing down the joins and finishing coats......1000grit;2000grit;3000grit;6000grit; finally Maguires to cut it even finer; finished with Auto-Glym resin polish. I did make a mistake, though........when I was applying the tape on the red so I could do the white, I placed the tape on the wrong side of the line I had marked out. Having sprayed the white and then the black; I carried on with polishing and lacquer etc until I was satisfied I was finished. It wasn't until I came to put the Ducati decal on (I don't lacquer those usually because the witness mark they can be a real b*****d to get rid of if ever paint needs doing again) I notice the white band on one side was 6mm narrower than the other. Tit..........I thought.
