rather conveniently had an unexpected day off work today, was just going back to bed after the phone call when the doorbell rang, so I opened the door to a load of parcels! Thought seeing as the sun was out I should probably crack on, so I've just spent pretty much the entire day doing a load of bits on the bike.
Got the calipers stripped down, the pistons were in much, much better nick than I was expecting and there was very little dirt, so I pumped them out, cleaned them up, lubed them up with red rubber grease and fitted my new Carbone Lorraine pads, before starting the fitting process of the new HEL lines. I've bled some bloody difficult brakes before (6 pot Tokicos anyone?!), but these weren't exactly either, kept getting air through for about a liter of fluid before it finally started firming up, so i've left the brake cable tied in and will give a quick last blast tomorrow. Rear was a peace of piss though which was a nice surprise, but I didn't bother changing the pads in the end as there's tonnes of meat on them still - should probably use that a bit more!
Got most of the electrical connections cleaned up and sprayed so they should be pretty much done with now for the rest of the time I own the bike.
Engine oil and filter change, and then coolant drain, flush, and refill. I have no idea what genius decided to put the drain plugs on the side of the bike as they've always been on the bottom, the engine oil came out a little further than expected (about a foot), but caught most of it in the tray, then did the same thing for the coolant and there must've been a good 4 foot of high powered hot coolant spraying onto my legs at one point! Oil looked very clean, reckon it must've been done recently, but the coolant was proper manky so I'm glad I did it. Had a tonne of crap come out of the rad too whilst I was flushing it so it was deffo in need of being done!
Drained the fuel tank again, checked all the fuel hoses and fitted a new fuel filter.
Jobs on for tomorrow (if I'm off work again) are to check the valve clearances, then do a compression test, rebalance the carbs (did them today but forgot they need doing after the valves), and then get greasing - copper greasing all the bolts and silicon everything else. Reckon the front tyre needs balancing too as its bit slappy at the moment if I take my hands off the bars, so will get that done as well whilst I'm at it (although thinking about it, did have one slightly sticky piston on the front brake which may have exagerated it)