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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #775 on: 10 April 2015, 09:15:11 pm »


We need a filter for yous smug gits :lol


Jus wait til yous are begging for oily old tat & cheap bling like the rest of us :b

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #776 on: 10 April 2015, 09:28:34 pm »
Can't do the wee guy rolling about laughing as I use a phone on here, but I am thinking that way lol ;-)

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #777 on: 10 April 2015, 10:36:09 pm »
Went for a cycle on the mountain bikes with Liz (St Cuthbert's Cave, up in North Nothumbrrland) and our old lab tagged along too. Also got we thought was a great pic of the dawn sum coming through the trees.










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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #778 on: 10 April 2015, 10:46:00 pm »
Went for a cycle on the mountain bikes with Liz (St Cuthbert's Cave, up in North Nothumbrrland) and our old lab tagged along too. Also got we thought was a great pic of the dawn sum coming through the trees.












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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #779 on: 10 April 2015, 10:50:42 pm »
 :rollin Northumbrrrrland must be cold.. :lol
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #780 on: 11 April 2015, 07:36:11 am »
Message to self, don't type posts when tired and drunk (may have been cold as well)  :) :)

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #781 on: 11 April 2015, 09:14:21 am »
:rollin Northumbrrrrland must be cold.. :lol

Like how you got the 'brrr' in Northumberland to make it sound cold even though you were drunk and tired lol
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #782 on: 12 April 2015, 12:46:18 pm »
Popped over to Leysdown on the DRZ, felt a bit out of place.

Scooters, just can't get excited over them.  :z
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #783 on: 12 April 2015, 01:24:18 pm »
Popped over to Leysdown on the DRZ, felt a bit out of place.

Scooters, just can't get excited over them.  :z


Often wonder what the scooter rider obsession with Mirrors is, I came behind one last week on the way home from work, I counted 28 mirrors on it and he had no idea what was going on behind, judging by the way he was wandering in the road. When a car blew the horn at him he nearly jumped out of his seat :rollin :rollin

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #784 on: 12 April 2015, 01:51:46 pm »
Well,  I actually sat on this one and guess what....

All the mirrors were pointing at me :eek

Does that answer your question?   :lol

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #785 on: 12 April 2015, 02:23:31 pm »
Well,  I actually sat on this one and guess what....

All the mirrors were pointing at me :eek

Does that answer your question?   :lol


Must be the scooter riders definition of a selfie  :rollin :rollin :rollin

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #786 on: 12 April 2015, 02:43:58 pm »
Well,  I actually sat on this one and guess what....

All the mirrors were pointing at me :eek

Does that answer your question?   :lol
Did you check out the lights dazza?
Maybe we could use that sort of mod for the foccin rubbish lights we've got :rollin
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #787 on: 12 April 2015, 06:23:54 pm »
What do you mean rubbish lights, the lights on the early Fazer were great.................................. as long as you didn't ride in the dark. :lol

Initial quick fix is just an extra wire from the electrical box under the tank to the headlight.to bring on the dim on the right.



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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #788 on: 12 April 2015, 06:30:25 pm »


scooter...........judging by the way he was wandering in the road.

They all do that sir  :lol

Horrible, wobbly things.

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #789 on: 15 April 2015, 12:42:15 pm »
if he turned all those lights on at once then his battery would drain in minutes!! I was going to say he'd slow down but they don't go fast enough to slow down lol!
 
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #790 on: 15 April 2015, 05:08:18 pm »
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #791 on: 15 April 2015, 05:18:13 pm »
Finally bit the bullet and dealt with the cars lack of exhaust. It's been a fun few months with the overly loud exhaust (particularly the last week or so with the back box totally removed) but it is now back to reality with a brand new, custom made to order, stainless steel exhaust from the cat back :) Lovely burly noise at the low to mid range which is awesome and she still roars when gunning it :D

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #792 on: 15 April 2015, 09:08:37 pm »
Started re-assembly of my suzuki x7 after a rebore........2 stroke twiin cylinder 250cc, for you young uns ..........one piston in no problem, came to fit the other and one of the rings tightens up in the grove before the ends meet, just cant quite get it in the bore, so off with the rings and I try them one at a time, they go in easy  :rolleyes....so, put them both back on and try again, still cant get the foccin thing in....round peg in a round hole, and I cant foccin do it  :wall.......so off again, try them one at a time , no problems, fit both and still cant get the foccin thing in  :wall :wall :wall......so out of curiosity I take the rings off, turn them over and re-fit , fitted in the bore a treat  :D.....work that one out  ;)
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #793 on: 15 April 2015, 09:17:52 pm »
Started re-assembly of my suzuki x7 after a rebore........2 stroke twiin cylinder 250cc, for you young uns ..........one piston in no problem, came to fit the other and one of the rings tightens up in the grove before the ends meet, just cant quite get it in the bore, so off with the rings and I try them one at a time, they go in easy  :rolleyes....so, put them both back on and try again, still cant get the foccin thing in....round peg in a round hole, and I cant foccin do it  :wall.......so off again, try them one at a time , no problems, fit both and still cant get the foccin thing in  :wall :wall :wall......so out of curiosity I take the rings off, turn them over and re-fit , fitted in the bore a treat  :D.....work that one out  ;)

Now, I'm the first to admit I may not be a genius when it comes to mechanics, engineering and the like, so I may be wrong here, but....

Are piston rings not designed to resist blow-by during combustion; they will flex against the cylinder wall giving a firmer seal? So, if that is the case, they will be designed to fit in a certain way up? And correct me if I'm wrong, but on some engines, the rings will only sit properly up to the ring 'peg' if the correct way up, to prevent fitting the wrong way up?

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #794 on: 15 April 2015, 09:33:05 pm »
Good thinking nick, the peg in the piston is the full width of the groove, I measured the rings and cant see any difference from side to side....very strange, you could be right but I cant spot the difference....might phone the supplier tomorrow and see what he says........head not on yet but still makes a nice plop, plop noise when I turn it over  :lol
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #795 on: 16 April 2015, 07:10:31 am »
Quote "makes a nice plop, plop noise when I turn it over  "


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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #796 on: 16 April 2015, 07:31:57 am »
Quote "makes a nice plop, plop noise when I turn it over  "


Sounds like my wife after a session

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #797 on: 16 April 2015, 12:10:56 pm »
Good thinking nick, the peg in the piston is the full width of the groove, I measured the rings and cant see any difference from side to side....very strange, you could be right but I cant spot the difference....might phone the supplier tomorrow and see what he says........head not on yet but still makes a nice plop, plop noise when I turn it over  :lol

Would be interested to hear their answer.

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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #798 on: 16 April 2015, 09:13:30 pm »
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Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« Reply #799 on: 16 April 2015, 10:16:37 pm »
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