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Post by buck1963 on Feb 9, 2021 21:03:23 GMT 1
so,whats the best bodge that you have found when stripping your bike down? I'm rebuilding my f2 at the moment and I've done a full strip down, everything has been pretty straight forward but when I took the sprocket carrier off there was only two sets of rubber buffers in there the other cavity was filled with cut up rubber bouncing balls!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 21:30:15 GMT 1
Probably guilty of a few bodge crimes me sen back in my youth, so I shouldn't grumble.
As a lad I bought a Honda70 for a fiver. Riding it home over the fields I noticed it had slightly squishy tyres...so when I got it home i tried to pump them up, but couldn't find the valves.
Turns out the tyres were stuffed with newspaper!
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Feb 9, 2021 21:52:25 GMT 1
Never mind found, what about did 😬
When I was 18 I bought a GSX250 as a project.
Built it up and booked an MOT for the following week
I knew the back wheel had play in it so bought new bearings. Went to fit them and found a bearing had previously spun in the wheel so the new bearings slopped about in the hole and the rear drum was cracked
Wrapped electrical tape round the bearing to take up the play and ignored the drum
By the time I got to the mot place 10 miles away it was misfiring and the rear brake had disappeared as the shoes were shredded by the drum cracks. Adjusted it up but still crap
Walks into the shop and owner is in a flap. Mechanic hasn't turned up for work so my MOT is cancelled
I flip my nut as I've ridden 10 miles to get there.
He grabs the keys and snarls he'll do it himself
He doesn't realise as it was it's first run my wife followed me through in the car and is parked across from my bike
He goes out, has a quick look over it, squeezes the brakes, starts it and shakes his head at the noise (Marshall Deeptone), switches it off and walks away
He gives me the MOT cert, tells me to adjust the rear brake and it's too feckin loud 🤣
Steve
PS, I did buy another wheel and changed the exhaust 😇
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Post by chrisg on Feb 9, 2021 21:52:31 GMT 1
When I was about 12/13, I used to ride a off road dt125 on some waste land behind my parents house. The main bearings went so I stripped it down , replaced them and upon assembly I used special "Kellogg" type gaskets for the cylinder base gasket and brown paper on the clutch cover with plenty of red hematite. Funnily enough they never leaked  Now I fit these gaskets on all my bikes , only joking.  |
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Post by kirkhd on Feb 9, 2021 22:00:26 GMT 1
Took a RD125 for MOT when i was a lot lot younger and the tyres were low on tread so cut the wear indicators down with hot knife, it passed.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Feb 9, 2021 22:33:51 GMT 1
Oh jeez,,those last 2 reminded me
Cornflakes box and red hermatite held most engines together
Also did the centre line of a tyre that had disappeared
Put it on the centre stand, started it, popped it in gear then held a file on the centre of the tyre.
Got another couple of hundred miles out of that 😀
Steve
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Post by mickt1964 on Feb 9, 2021 22:47:00 GMT 1
My other halves best mate bought a car in the 80's that turned out to be a flinstone car, big hole in the floor the seller covered with carpet and cardboard. Yes her mate as daft, she went to look at the car on her own.
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Post by donkeychomp on Feb 9, 2021 22:51:18 GMT 1
Seen nails used as split pins. Wood screws instead of bolts. Tin foil for fuses...
Alex
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Feb 9, 2021 23:00:58 GMT 1
...and main chain with only half the connecting link.
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Feb 9, 2021 23:02:36 GMT 1
... and seen plenty of casing screws held in situ with kitchen sealant or similar rather than repair the thread.
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Post by alankelly on Feb 9, 2021 23:03:45 GMT 1
My yellow rebuild has a “headstock swap” that when you look at the below photo shows how bad it was when you look at the front wheel to rad gap  And the VIN number was missing too😳😳 No choice but to rebuild it using an imported German frame and matching numbers cases and then register it as an import once it was finished😁 |
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Feb 9, 2021 23:06:57 GMT 1
OMG Alan.
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Post by abar121 on Feb 9, 2021 23:10:00 GMT 1
What looked like tile adhesive or polyfilla had been slapped onto the side of a 31K tank, to patch it up.
Leaked like a sieve and was disintegrating into the fuel tap / carbs as a billy bonus.
The same bike had a chunk missing from a barrel, where the exhaust stud had snapped off a big chunk somehow.
Also foam under the fork gaiters on an LC, to soak up the oil from the leaking fork legs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 1:51:34 GMT 1
Years ago I bought a Yamaha YL2C trailmaster.... kinda like a YB100. Nice thing it is, and it ran really well but needed some love, so I rebuilt it.
At some point in it's life someone had done the top end, and rather than buy a new little end bearing they made a brass bush to replace it. It worked!
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Post by reggit on Feb 10, 2021 10:05:17 GMT 1
Found a few and have been guilty of a few....
Many moons ago (1994), I was going with mates to the Bol d’or in south of France. A couple of weeks to go and I parked my ZZR600 in the side of a car, rendering it somewhat knackered, bought a cheap heap from a guy at work (xj750 rat) needed 2 tyres, front now a problem, rear the axle bolt was well and truly seized, so I couldn’t get the wheel out - never mind, I worked at a haulage yard at the time, so borrowed the wagon tyre cutter..... That made it to the south of France and back and is still the most mileage I’ve covered in a day at 940.
On the same bike, I found several bolt heads connected to their shank by araldite 😂
never bodged my LC too much, ok I’ve owned it since 1991, so I’m sure in my youth there will have been a few ‘iffy’ repairs...
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Post by brigitte on Feb 10, 2021 10:17:56 GMT 1
Took a RD125 for MOT when i was a lot lot younger and the tyres were low on tread so cut the wear indicators down with hot knife, it passed. I put the 50cc Puch into gear and held the iron saw against the tire. 2 more millimetres in the central groove of the rear tire, no money for a new tire. |
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Post by chrisg on Feb 10, 2021 10:48:23 GMT 1
Seen nails used as split pins. Wood screws instead of bolts. Tin foil for fuses... Alex My day job is a lift and crane inspector and believe it or not, I have seen nails and wood screws and brake linkages and pins on both lifts and cranes, scary. |
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Post by headcoats on Feb 10, 2021 11:23:34 GMT 1
Had household fuses in my LC when I first got it and it had been covered in Vaseline over the whole bike to preserve it !
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Post by Gunny on Feb 10, 2021 11:38:57 GMT 1
While stripping my Ypvs for resto I was very impressed at these dog leg bushes  Duct tape and water pipe |
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Feb 10, 2021 12:01:14 GMT 1
While stripping my Ypvs for resto I was very impressed at these dog leg bushes Duct tape and water pipe Those are Yambits! |
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Post by pdxjim on Feb 10, 2021 17:35:42 GMT 1
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Post by marrcel on Feb 10, 2021 18:02:17 GMT 1
Someone wanted to thighten the cranck seal😤  |
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Post by jon on Feb 10, 2021 19:08:21 GMT 1
Years ago I bought a Yamaha YL2C trailmaster.... kinda like a YB100. Nice thing it is, and it ran really well but needed some love, so I rebuilt it. At some point in it's life someone had done the top end, and rather than buy a new little end bearing they made a brass bush to replace it. It worked! Don’t be sure this was a bodge. I don’t know what the inside of a YB100 is like, but I do a Vespa 50 special. Yep, you guessed it a bronze bush as a small end as standard. Looking at Fowler’s they list 2 parts for the small end (no 10). One a bearing 93310-21403 the other BRG CYL-CAL ROLLER 7G TM 9331021403 which I suspect is a bronze bush. Jon |
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Post by jon on Feb 10, 2021 19:09:53 GMT 1
Technically this is a bodge. However complexly functional and probably easier to remove. Ugly though. Jon |
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Post by jon on Feb 10, 2021 19:10:57 GMT 1
While stripping my Ypvs for resto I was very impressed at these dog leg bushes Duct tape and water pipe Is it a replacement dog leg they forgot to take out the Yamaha bag before fitting? Jon |
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Post by justyr on Feb 10, 2021 20:13:40 GMT 1
First lc had no tubes in the tyres. Someone had put a tubeless valve into a tube only rim.
Loads of pads down to the metal these days on Deliveroo bikes. One only had one rear pad fitted and was bearing on the opposing piston. Swarf all over the back wheel, ffs.
Sainsbury’s bags for mitts.
This is present day, delivery a***holes in Edinburgh.
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Post by pdxjim on Feb 10, 2021 20:33:18 GMT 1
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Post by chrisg on Feb 10, 2021 20:47:45 GMT 1
While stripping my Ypvs for resto I was very impressed at these dog leg bushes Duct tape and water pipe Those are Yambits! Those are better than Yambits 😱 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 22:05:57 GMT 1
Years ago I bought a Yamaha YL2C trailmaster.... kinda like a YB100. Nice thing it is, and it ran really well but needed some love, so I rebuilt it. At some point in it's life someone had done the top end, and rather than buy a new little end bearing they made a brass bush to replace it. It worked! Don’t be sure this was a bodge. I don’t know what the inside of a YB100 is like, but I do a Vespa 50 special. Yep, you guessed it a bronze bush as a small end as standard. Looking at Fowler’s they list 2 parts for the small end (no 10). One a bearing 93310-21403 the other BRG CYL-CAL ROLLER 7G TM 9331021403 which I suspect is a bronze bush. Jon I have seen bronze bush little ends, but generally on old old stuff. That said... it's 1967, but the manual shows a bearing. It was a farm bike, and farmers tend to use what they have. Like I say... it worked. |
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Post by chrisg on Feb 10, 2021 22:54:54 GMT 1
Not sure if it was Villiers that used phozy bronze little ends as std. As stated, worked well on lower reving engines,they had a little hole in the conrod to let petroil mix in.
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