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SO how did this one end up Ollie? You’ve had 2.5 years to finish it

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Moto wrote:

Uploaded a few pics from my phone to the intermaweb, here’s a couple of the pumpkin:

Clean

Dirty

Ahhhh…..she was a trusty steed. Just saw this thread and thought I’d revice the pics of the old 450.

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What touch? I wasn’t even 10 years old when it was made and I know nothing about vintage sickles!

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Yeah, you’re right. I looked for pictures of a 84 and it looked similar. Looking back to the bike pictured wasn’t an 84, it was some other text in the page was 84 so the pic was wrongly Googled!

Don’t forget the site you’re looking at is South African and models and years from there to here may well be different. Colours of plastics etc…..

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I reckon it’s a 1984. Get the engine number and use the Googlebot and you’ll find the exact year. Your handlebars look bent in the pics.

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Krusty wrote:

Just bought one of these… Thanks Nick!!!

$151 delivered and from an aussie retailer to boot!!

Top Buy

Thanks for the link Krusty. I just viewed this thread and liked the little camera so much I’ve just ordered one from Top Buy too

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Is that the same river crossing we did on that weekend when I busted my thumb? Looks similar.

Had a laugh at Deejay and his swamp monster efforts

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Happy Birthday mole face!

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It’s in the Economic Times in Inidia so it must be true

“MUMBAI: Bajaj Auto, India’s second-largest two-wheeler maker, has tightened its hold on KTM Power Sports by buying another 6.3%, taking it stake in the Austrian motorcycle to a little over 47%.

ET learnt that the company purchased this stake from one of the key stake holders through an open market transaction recently. The purchase was made through Bajaj Auto International Holdings ( BAIHBV), a Netherlands-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Bajaj Auto.”

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singletrackmind wrote:

When I saw the thread title I was about to move it to the Suzuki section as I thought it was a story about a DRZ :laugh:

Or the XR650 :laugh:

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Yeah but I bet your Briggs goes harder than the IT

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This thread is fact whereas the other was conjecture. Not that the truth should stand in the way of a good old one eyed shit slinging match

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Gotta love those pine singles!

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Just got in contact with a mob at Somersby called ECS Engines and had a chat with the guy who seemed to know his stuff. I’m going to drop the head and other bits off to him after it’s been snadblasted and he’ll proprley measure the bore for me.

From there I will know if we can keep it 0.75mm ovversize or if the bore is ovalled badly enough to take it out to 1mm. To measure it up, bore and hone (which is the worst case) is $70…..nice!

I think I’m just going to buy a new piston kit now, seems pointless doing all the hard work to throw some old piston back in there for the sake of a $100 bucks.

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Cheers TB, I hadn’t seen those numbers but to be honest I didn’t bother looking as I have bought the service manual so I can stick to what it recommends.

I measured the ring gap exactly as you described about 20 mm in from the bottom and about 10mm down from the top (below the normal stopping point of the piston rings at TDC).

It was 6mm, no joke! I had the feeler guages out ready to measure the gap as well I put the other ring in (the one pictured) and it’s too big. I expected it would be but was good to check my calcs/measurements.

Using the rules of thumb above the min top ring end gap should be somewhere around 0.3mm and with the bottom ring at 0.35mm.

Anyone know a good engine mob on the Central Coast or Newcastle? I could just take it to a machone shop but would rather someone who knows what they’re doing.

Sweet, the new chain has just turned up, first of many parts! I’m off to order a new carby……….

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