Oh my god the engine sounds bloody amazing.  Spend this evening buttoning down all the bits n bobs after the camchain swap surgery.  New oil, new coolant..battery in ....fuel tank back on and ignition on. 

Few turns to get fuel into the carbs again and it fired up back into life....YEAH BABY I AM A HAPPY CHAPPY

It sounds so quiet now and no rattly ol cam chain anymore.  Well that was definitely worth the effort!

What do you get up to other than your Fazer?

I have been building Quadcopters and taking cameras up for aerial video for 2 - 3 years on and off.  Would love to video a motobike riding along a cool cliff top road.

Spark plugs I mean.  Grrr can't edit with tapatalk.

Ok that's cool. I'm going to put my beedy eye just one more time over the rivets again, to put my mind at ease. But I've already checked multiple times and there's no way the cam chain link pins are coming out. 

Just spent the last day aligning the cam shafts too lol.  Kept putting them in one tooth out doh!  All aligned now and chain tensioner in.  I checked the amount of clicks it went in compared to the old one.  New one about 3 clicks in before chain was tight and the old had 3 clicks remaining on the auto tensioner!.  Yes I'm happy with that and hope this bad boy runs a bit quieter with less chain chatter.

I have to say it is quite an easy bike to work on really.  But if you have the correct tools it makes life easier.

Well got one of these from machine mart and it worked. Yeah Baby!

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/laser-motorbike-chain-link-extractor-and-rivet?da=1&TC=SRC-chain+link

Urrggh  UGLY!

Yeah one was in the tool kit under the seat. What a muppet for not checking there first. 

Hi I am just about to order a long reach socket / wrench for extracting the plugs on my FZS600 yr 2000.   I'm away from the bike right now but want to order the wrench this afternoon.  I think the standard plug hex size is 16mm.  Is that right?
 
cheers for your help anyone!
 
Gav

Doh looks like I can use my riveter that I've got already. Panic over

Just had a look and once you take off the cam chain top guide there is space to fit it on.  Just have to make sure I dont drop anything down into the engine lol. What could possibly go wrong. 

Hi I'm goanna put in a new cam chain bcus there's only a couple of click s left on the tensioner.   
I'm fitting a link and rivet type chain to avoid splitting the engine.

I have a drive chain rivet tool but not sure I can use it for the cam chain too?

Does any kind soul have a proper cam chain rivet tool I could borrow (I will pay postage)or buy if you dont need it anymore or know where I can get one?

Cheers
Gav

Ok I see its a guide at the front.  Will take carbs off tomorrow and pull out the tensioner and guide to check them.   

Postman brought me a pair of datatool heated grips.  Just put them on the battery and started the bike to test them. Wooo nice n toasty.  Looking forward to trying them out for real. 
Like the auto charging sensor that switches them on and off automatically

Just ordered a set of data tool grips as my index finger always goes numb when riding this time of year, which really is annoying.  Looking forward to toasty hands and warmth to stop the dead finger issue lol.