It has been done........delivered a package to the whisperer

[swabio-ACT]

Well,

The little neglected six.... has been transported to another dimension and I saw a stirring in nameless body parts from the Kawasaki whisperer .....

Cheers to Gos for taking care of it.............

[Gosling1]

YEH baby, time for some whispering ! well, after the CDT anyway

[swabio-ACT]

YEH baby, time for some whispering ! well, after the CDT anyway

I can't believe how much the fourth D... has changed over the last few years! You have done bloody well Dave!

[Gosling1]

cheers mate, yes the pub has certainly come along pretty well. It will be even better when the piano makes its way down there

tucked your 6 away last night up in the top sheds. Once I get back from CDT, the whispering will commence.....

[Gosling1]

Let the whispering ......COMMENCE !!






Yes at 0900 this morning, the mighty 6R was wheeled - complaining all the way due to the condition of the wheel bearings - down into the 4th for some whisperin'.........

First impressions ?

A good battery first - and no probs, dash lights on. Quick jab of the starter - a couple of false alarms from the starter solenoid, then the old girl cranked over a few times......just to check that everything was still rotating OK in the motor.

Dropped the oil. It was pink. Not just any pink either, a bright farken crimson !! Bizarre. Looks black in the oil-pan - but I have never seen oil this colour before......anyway have some fresh Motul in the cases now.

Carbies.....hmmm. No throttle movement at all - well maybe 5mm ? But something not right. All the slides are moving OK, but the butterfly's appear to be locked up. Plenty of Lanoline spray - and some adjustment at the handlebar end - and the butterflies are now working just fine.

Have yet to check the plugs or put water in the radiator (looks bone dry) - but with a bit of luck - I reckon the 6 will be up and running tomorrow......

Stay tuned

[Gosling1]

well there you go........fresh juice (just fed into the carbies from a funnel on the fuel hose - no fuel pump ??)......water in the radiator.....sorted out the choke so it was working good......and a really thorough clean-up of all the carbs. Main jets and pilot jets were all blocked solid. The emulsion tubes also needed all the 'varnish' taken off them and the pin-holes all cleaned up. They were pretty much all varnished in old fuel residue. Needles & seats all checked out OK. I actually replaced 3 of the 4 pilot jets with pilot jets from the Keihin box......and also replaced a couple of the float bowl screws which had gone a bit cheesy...... all up the carbs cleaned up really well. A lot of carbie cleaner, some 10A fuse wire and the air duster sort out carbs pretty quickly (but I am definitely going to invest in an ultrasonic cleaner now.......just perfect for jobs like this.)

and then after a few cranks - she fired up straight away

In further good news Rich - absolutely not a single puff of any smoke whatsoever from the engine. Nothing. I was expecting a bit of valve-stem seal leakage but it looks like they are still sealing well.

Gave it a minute on choke - then a couple of good revs - engine sounds good, a bit of noise out of the top-end, I think the valve clearances may be the next job.

Have to get the fuel pump from Swabio now and sort it out properly, then some decent rubber - a good detail and the little 6 will be ready for some track action pretty much straight away

Happy days ......

[JimZXR]

Sounds like a winner Gos; wish all my projects were that straight forward!

[Gosling1]

went for a bit of a dig through the library this morning, to find some history about this bike.......

It is meant to be the sister bike to MickLC's ZX6R - Mick's being raced by Troy Bayliss and this one by Kev Curtain. I found some pics from the 1996 season - which Kev won on the Team Bridgestone/Cosway ZX6R. It was bright red back then, #92.

This bike does have a WP rear shock - same as Mick's. Not sure at all about whether the same fork mods were done to this bike as they have been to Mick's 6 ? But obviously all new bodywork has been fitted since the '96 season .

I am pretty sure Swabio still has a lot of the spares which came with this bike.......time to do some more digging

[MickLC]

I've been meaning to ask of you can have a look for some of the photos of mine from the 1995 season

[Gosling1]

no probs mate will have a look through the 1995 season articles in AMCN and TW. I found a few shots of Kev's bike - but they just look like a red ZX6R nothing like the bike does today....

I also had another good read of Marty's original article, when he picked up both of these bikes back in 2004 or 2005.......the words 'blown motor' appear with frightening regularity

[swabio-ACT]

aaaah been a while since being on here....... bloody busy of late.. trying to kill myself mountain biking and work

Well hopefully we can get this little green biatch out sometime soon............. and wring its neck a bit