[dennis da menaceMember]

xy-transit wrote:

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my 640 (625cc) has only ever shaken me off it in the 15000 kms it’s done :S

not one bolt ever has vibrated out.

yes but isnt yours the road going AG model XY.
that has a crankshaft counterweight fitted from the factory??

i think LC4’s is different and doesnt have the balancer…im pretty sure the enduro models didnt have it

i may be very wrong though :S

[dennis da menaceMember]

JIFF works good too boonit

[dennis da menaceMember]

FOR SALE

2009 KTM 300. 4320km, 108hours. always well cared for…never dropped.
brand new top end, not yet run in. full krooztune susp. new chain and sprokets,
heated grips, spokey dokeys, 6 mths vic rego…

BEST OFFER TAKEN…

or enough to buy a DRZ.
i’ll just sell my soul to make up the difference :laugh: :laugh:

fuck it, im becoming a monk!! :laugh: :laugh:

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its been raining here for 24 hours too. its really uncannilly warm though, considering the last 2 weeks have been arctic like.
its been the coldest and wettest winter in over 10 years down here

so its some new S12’s for the 300 then.

maybe a paddle tyre :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

just finished the rebuild, started 2nd kick

she is purring like a panther

now for the forkage repairs

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Im a professional at cycling pissed, after my old mans 50th I made it all the way home no problemo and crashed in to my bike trailer aroung the side of my house and cut my fingers to shit.

Woke up in the morning with sore fingers and no idea how i got home, say brothers bike leaning against the garage door and it all started coming back to me. I still couldnt figure out how i cut my fingers but, then a couple of days later i was washing my air filter in turps and my fingers were stinging and some blue paint flecks came out or the cuts the same blue paint that is on the trailer, I used my CSI powers to figure the crash out.

now who’s gone out of their mind :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[dennis da menaceMember]

no mate.

everyone sees the light sooner or later, just like you and me and our other holy brethen

Kato is God

[dennis da menaceMember]

KTM

taking over the world, with every roost suckers :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

(cue evil laugh) :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

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…this afternoon it was reveiled to me that after some slight mis-communication, it seems the money hungry owners of the caravan park at nundle have re-booked my “celebrity reserved cabin” to some other unknown/non-OBT lesser grade celebrities :angry: :laugh: :laugh:

but then again…… :dry:

this might just be some displicably desperate shifty kinda ploy from our very own, big talking little man, Mr Bollocks. :laugh: in some lame effort to sway my perspective towards the upcoming, now imfamous (so im told) nundle ‘drink off’ between the Bat, Spider, Eagle and Goatlover (i havent mentioned it to Eagle yet…. or boony! :laugh: :laugh: )

…that is rumoured to be taking place on friday night as soon as Mr Has-No…

Sorry, i meant Mr Bollocks, arrives…… :laugh:

probably in his illustrious Bat suit, wearing his matching diamonte encrusted Bat G-Banger and maybe even sporting his home made utility Bat belt too.
its chock full of misc. yamaha parts, bandaids, spare ribs, some tablespoons of cement, and full kilo of Minced Gay Pride…. :woohoo: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

apparently, the word on the street is he wants to play some ‘itsy bitsy’ sipping games with a some of Spidy’s own, homegrown, Payote Dipped, Triple Rectified, Sativa Filtered, Mescal Spirit.

it will turn goat shit into gasoline thats good enough to run a DRZ on :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

its the pride of Mexico and only comes in one flavour……called 192proof :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

anyway after ive used Bollocks like a lemon to clean the BBQ and finally stopped the convolsions so he can sleep, understandably, i might be a little tired :silly: :pinch:

Luckily, it looks like good old Pep has come to the rescue and im privilaged enough to sleep in the mobile Pep-O-Bago. :laugh: :laugh:
being a navy boy, he should be somewhat unnulled to the one ‘unfortunate’ super power that i have……
extreme hardcore snoring :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

she’ll be right mate :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

now, i just need my new Scotts Damper Kit to arrive in time :huh:

im praying to Lord Kato…..

he shall guide my parts to me, like Chad Reed to KTM :woohoo: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[dennis da menaceMember]

i was wondering if any of you lot

knew any of that lot

through some other lot

or something maybe…

id be pretty spooked i reckon :dry: 😆

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BOLLOCKS wrote:

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Im gonna get you so pissed you will be helmet spewing all Saturday.That is my mission and i choose to accept it

many a good man has tried….and failed :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

you know im up for a challenge little fella :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

im gonna get you so pisswrecked you cant work :woohoo: :woohoo: :laugh: :laugh:

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singletrackmind wrote:

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most of the DRZ owners i know end up putting it in the exhaust pipe Nick :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

its not a very tight fit but they still do it :laugh:

That’s strange Menace I tried to get it in the exchaust pipe but even with the baffle out it just wouldn’t fit ! :laugh:

Keep in mind Nickj, Menace owns a two stroke :laugh:
I have a Barrett

STM

ahh, but i dont have a horn…

you need to watch for finger :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[dennis da menaceMember]

most of the DRZ owners i know end up putting it in the exhaust pipe Nick :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

its not a very tight fit but they still do it :laugh:

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BOLLOCKS wrote:

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Boony wrote:

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BOLLOCKS wrote:

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i will be your friend Menace :cheer:
I will be heading to Nundle late Friday arvo.
I plan to turn the ring of knowledge into the ring of FIRE :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
I will camp the night in my swag where ever i fall

Hooray :woohoo:

Bol :woohoo:

????????Morning ride???huh??huh??? /maybe?????? :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :pinch:

No Boony
Gotta work in the morning
But i will wave you all goodbye and maybe give a speach like Braveheart before you all head off

have a sicky you little prancer :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

even you are dispensable mate, sheep will shag, cattle will sell.
the world will spin without you there to hold its hand……

but me and boony, we need you man…….

what happened Bol,

you used to be cool

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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Boony wrote:

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Thank you all for your words of wisdom .
will tell you how it goes soon.

1 day, 9 hours ago???

are you still working on it boonit?? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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well the actual difference between the group 1 and 2 pistons is 0.025mm, or 0.010″ (ten thousandths of an inch)

or a poofteenth as my dad would say :laugh: :laugh:

group 1 = 71.025mm
compared to
group 2 = 71.050mm

i dont have the piston/bore tolerances yet, but i’ll find them, or ring MAl :laugh: :laugh: the 300 has a ‘square bore’ of 72 x 72mm going by the book. i dunno if i’d trust that number though..

Hmmm, square bore :unsure: …

i dunno what or how that relates to a 2 stroke? maybe nothing as we need ports and skirts and shit for induction.
i just remember my dear dad rattling on about it back when i was just a little tacker getting under his feet in the shed. he used to build sick arse engines for speedway beasts and the odd streetcar back in the ’70s :laugh: :laugh: it got him his whiskey money and he drank a lot of whiskey :laugh: :laugh:

i notice all the 450 and up thumpers have generally oversquare bores. (wider bore and shorter stroke) is that to fit bigger valves in or to help them rev higher….probably both i spose. piston speed might have a bit too do with it since the new bikes seem to have very little piston skirt….

i might have to have a look at my old TT350 specks in comparo to an XR400 and then comparo them both to some newerfangled WR400s and CRFs even, just for fun. :laugh:

pity ive gotta finally go back to work tomorrow, its got me thinking :laugh: :laugh: why didnt i think of that 3 months ago :laugh: :laugh:

need another thread for that anyway. :laugh:

i will start checking tolerences on the 300 tomorrow arvo. ive gotta drop into Billt’s and borrow all his tools first thanks buddy

im gonna have to searth TT for numbers for the ring gap and piston clearances. they dont come in the manual. (unless one of you good blokes know them :dry:

dont worry Axel, i will be checking everything thoroughly. the piston itself is made to wear far more than the bore.
it will wear some too, hence the group 2 slug.
i havent slipped the new slug in the bore yet but the old piston would rattle around in the bore at TDC with the head off if you pushed your fingers on it and moved it around. i’ll measure the slop on everything old and new tommorrow including dimension X and Z and all that jazz.

your right mate, there is a science to it, well prolly more a tolerance than a science but the same thought applies

if the new group 2 slug is too big, i just wont use it yet.
if the old one is well in spec, i might use it again as its in perfect condition. i will just put rings in it.
or if i need to i’ll just get a new group 1 slug kit, and keep the other for future loving…
whatever it needs

my ‘old skool’ old man used to say, “rebuilding any engine is really simple if you use good, accurate, measurement and that includes torquing things back up…and bend the specifications to your advantage”.

its easy to look at a rebuild and say “bugger that its too hard, i’ll give it to the shop to do” and fork out some big coin so someone else for the opportunity to work on YOUR bike!!

if its taken in small steps, and with a bit of encouragement, anyone can do it and it is very, very, rewarding, especially if/when it starts in 3-4 kicks and runs smooth and hopefully will for the next 150 hours :laugh: :laugh:

then theres the bragging rights that come with it too. :laugh: :laugh:

“hey, Menace you champion, how much did they charge ya for the rebuild mate?”

“about 300 bucks including beverages and i did it myself so now im highly expertized in it… i’ll do yours for a grand or so if ya want mate” :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

or something like that :laugh: :laugh:

anyway, i’ll post it up as i learn it and do it, hopefully some one will be able to use it as reference in the future… and/or
tell me if ive mucked something up in the present… :laugh:

hey, im always open for CONSTRUCTIVE critisizm…. (shut up boony!)

and any tips welcome

and twobanger, my 300 has done 4320km in 108.2 hours.

next time you go for a ride, try to mentally average how many k’s you do every hour.
mine works out to 40km/h average over its life. i do a lot of open riding so its pretty high for a bushbike. if you do tight single track heaps it may be as little as 20km/h.

so if my bike had that many k’s on with mainly tight single, it would probably have 200 hours on it…

does that make sense dude :blink: :dry: :laugh:

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