[ZookRick]

Those main bearings are still good to go even after 45k? Did you check the rod bearings?

[Locomotion]

Everything was within spec, only stripped the engine cause of oil leaks, it was running fine but as the saying goes one thing leads to another..................

[Locomotion]

A bit of refinishing

Front pegs & rear pegs







Oil drain tubes

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Now to get the top end back on

With new rings spaced correctly and ring compressors attached



The centre 2 pistons in first then the outer 2



Inserting the rest of the studs, long thread down and a bit of thread lock



Using the double nut trick to tighten down the studs



Head gasket in place and these rather expensive O rings x 6





Before the head goes on the oil drain pipes with new O rings inserted with a dab of LM grease, one of the reasons the head came off due to leaks





Head on cams next

[Slammer46]

Love reading this makes me all warm and fuzzy..... Wanna go tear apart something!

[maniac1886]

Motorcycle porn. Pure and simple. Lookin good man.

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Not all plain sailing though, got to last bit when tightening the cam cover bolts 4 threads gave up, the cam caps had been helicoiled previously which Im not a big fan of, had them rethreaded using timeserts which are far superior and not made of chocolate, once that was sorted the camchain tensioner decided to snap clean off whilst I was torquing it up. Will get some more pics up very soon

[Javy23]

Thats a very clean work.. keep posting! upload some vid when you start the engine....

[Locomotion]

Broken camchain tensioner, looks brittle, torqued up to 25lbs and snapped. Believe Suzuki want £324 ha ha I dont think so how about £15 from Fleabay

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The carb rubbers had definitely seen better days





The centre 2 were okish though so saved as spares, I bought a used set in good condition and cleaned them up and fitted new o rings.



Time to reunite the engine with the frame





I knocked up a small wooden frame to hold the engine and whilst my mate held the engine at an angle I lifted the frame onto it.



At last together again, all mounting bolts copper greased and torqued up



Swingarm and shock/linkage back in



Back on its wheels although the centre stand is up both wheels are on the ground may remove it yet





Chain is a 530 conversion, looks really long in the picture



Will be relocating the support for the torque arm on the rear caliper



Bit of sunshine



Will have to do something with the shock braided hose



No lock stops on the yokes they will be up against foam pads on the frame, the top Bandit yoke has also been milled to enable the Slabside Ignition which is a 4 wire same as stock to meet the steering lock



It turns out those stainless exhaust header studs are too short



GSXR1100 front wheel, Bandit 12 43mm forks with progressive springs brake discs and calipers



Rear end set up GSXR1100 Wheel underslung caliper stock master cylinder

[Engelskmannen]

Hats off to you sir, lovely work ! More please

Colin.

[mammut89]

jizz in my pants...

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Oil cooler pipes came up well with some Hammerite gloss although a pig to apply as its very thin



I bought a low use Motad 4 into 2, stainless headers and chrome silencers













Very nice fit



prefer the twin silencers



I fitted SV650 bars as they have approx the same width as the stock set up along with the rubber mounted Bandit 1200 yokes should be smooth hopefully



The powerscreen worked ok but thought I'd pull it apart for some cleaning and greasing





Plastic balls on a steel cable run through a plastic guide, the left side has the motor drive the right side is a slave driven by the long spindle. cleaned up not too bad then greased up.



The plastic guide can be removed but the pins will break so worked around this



The screen guides just needed a good clean and grease



Fairing/screen bracket powder coated



powerscreen bits fitted back on, excuse the crap pictures but I was up all night.



Next up is to sort this lot

[Tokalosh]

Great job mate, looking forward to seeing this bike in person.

Tok

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Cheers youre only up the road from me, I sent you a pm about the rotor remover