Well..today was the great day...after being stoped since November with her engine out..she came to life!!!

However....it´s making a weird noise.. I´ve put my hand just near the cylinder head and I can feel a leak, so probably the down pipes are not well in place... you can hear it on the video, do you think that noise is made by the leak on the downpipes or can be something inside the engine?
I can´t adjust the downpipes now cause they are hot..

btw..I´ve also found out that I swear a lot in English, so carefull when watchin, however I managed to cut the beginning of the video where there was several attempts to start her and they were all failed, so on this bit there is only one F word...

http://www.livevideo.com/video/18D22B3A5C7...after-engi.aspx

Pedro,, I do believe that its blowing mate torque up the bolts and try it again .. well done all ready for North Yorkshire

So you'll be bringing her to Farmyard then eh?

ho yeh.. the whole point of all this rushing around now was to make her ready for the rally season.... don´t fancy doing all the rides on the TRX with only 2 bits of foam as a seat..

and the thundercat has a big wide passenger seat where I strap the tent,sleeping bag,rucksack, etc....

It's a great feeling isn't it mate? When I rebuilt my Triumph, when it burst into life, what a rush . . .

Congrats JP who's a clever russian then?

Russain! I thought he was a Brummy
dam!!!!!!

Snap...



scouse..the Russian joke started 2 years ago at the Pewsey meeting, I got a phone call from my mum and start speaking Portuguese, of course that once I had finished everyone said it sounded like Russian...and Faze and Zombie started calling me the Russian spy from KGB...

Class Glad you got the cat running mate, was it a replacement box or did you get Ancient sort it out, sorry if I missed your post chap.

Are you taking it to Fox's on Sunday?

At the end we only replaced the gear selectors that seemed bent and were smashed up with a lot of wear...

looking at the gearbox from the sump all seemed normal... fingers crossed that the gear selectors replacement will have sorted everything, if not I´ll just have to ride it easy on low revs

might take her to Fox´s yes...going to get a new tyre tomorrow from Micheldever as I have a customer to visit down that way

Good work mate

Could be blowing past the header pipe gaskets, did you replace them?

the gaskets were replaced when I fitted the downpipes last time so they are not very old and they were good.... but I didn´t put any gasket paste as I read here somewhere that it doesn´t need in there...

Congratulations dude
All the efforts pay off, hmm?

i would have renewed the gaskits too JP, even though their not all that old they will still have seated to the pressure you torqued them up at. not really worth skimping on for a couple of quid.

welldone with the rebuild mate

got the rear tyre today!! 82 quid from Micheldever tyres, BT020!!!

Is that fitted chap or supply only?

yes...fitted


to the rim

I took in the car boot, but it's easy enough to take a wheel out and fit back on the bike anyway..

That is good value

And tyre fitted...dowpipes taken off and put back in again... and she´s sweet as she was before!!!

put only the seat on her and rode her around the cul-de-sac I live in... hoooo..beautifull!!!!

can´t wait to get all the fairings on and take her for a ride..