Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:50 pm
javaman wrote:Great write up!
javaman wrote:The carburetors on my GPZ is the one thing I haven't touch. I was scratching my head because the boots+carbies+boot+airbox (if seen from the left) are absolutely tight fit! So I left it alone.
javaman wrote:Any chance to describe this magic tool of yours?
javaman wrote:is it just a plate you force the carbs/boot into?
javaman wrote:I too had the oil cooler line touching the exhaust! Lucky I looked beneath and it was a 30-sec. fix.
Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:16 pm
Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:56 pm
Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:44 am
Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:37 pm
Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:32 pm
Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:40 pm
Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:30 am
Wed Aug 03, 2016 10:57 pm
javaman wrote:I've been thinking of painting plastics myself! But a bit worried I would ruin it.
javaman wrote:I read that you can use a hairdryer to 're-blacken' plastics... have you done anything like that?
javaman wrote:I might try it in a hidden location just to see.
javaman wrote:is your bike running yet? Maybe we should go for a ride on our old machines !
Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:52 am
Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:33 pm
Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:15 pm
Mister_T wrote:I took a pic of the caliper I swapped out.
The pic did not come out as good as I wanted.
Where I have put the red line there is a length of dust seal sticking out. This is probably why the RH disc is 0.2mm thinner than the LH disc. That dust seal is probably wedging the piston against the bore and stopping the pad retracting properly when the hydraulic pressure is off.
It is fixable but it was more expedient at the time to swap out the whole caliper. I will likely have to G-clamp the small piston and apply some hefty air pressure to get the big piston moving.
I was reading a post on some other forum somewhere, where a GPX750-owning poster described what seems to be the same issue. Is this something these particular calipers can do? I have not seen this problem before.
Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:19 pm
Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:03 pm
Smitty wrote:.. never had this issue with my GPx7fiddy
Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:10 pm
Smitty wrote:Head gusset.. gone grey?
Smitty wrote:I just used the stuff you get in Repco and Autobarn to make grey car bumpers .. black again
worked a treat on my GPx
was like this - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/MOTHERS-BACK ... SwzJ5XahXP
but I think it was Meguiars (not Mothers)