Wheels,carbs,chains and stuff.

More progress this week, seems to be not a lot of progress but loads of time spent! First job on the list was to install the carbs which was fine apart from needing very small japanese type fingers to do up all the awkward little 6mm bolts holding the carbs to the engine block.
I thought that was a pain in the a** until I had to tackle the airbox.....now this should be an easy job as access is pretty good, however one of the rubber/plastic boots just would not go on the carb body no matter how hard I tried. I heated the boots up with a hair dryer, soaked them in hot water and coated the insides with washing up liquid to no avail. After a couple of hours of frustration I realised that I could seperate the boots from the actual airbox part and then reconnect them after I had installed the boots. The clips where all twisted and generally in poor condition so I purchased some new ones and connected the boots up, I think maybe that age has robbed them of some of there flexibility but eventually I got it all connected. Not entirely happy with them but we will see how they go.
After that I put the disc, new sprocket and spacer, cush drive rubbers onto the rear wheel and reinstalled the lot on the swing arm.

Looks pretty sharp I thought. The gold sprocket stands out nicely against the black wheel.

One problem I have encountered is the brake stay that I have welded to the swing arm, it all connects wonderfully but it only gives me about 5mm adjustment on the chain as the support bracket for the caliper comes straight off the rear axle. I don't know why I did'nt see that coming but hey ho..it's fine for now but a small redesign will be needed shortly.

So the chain is on which feels like a major milestone to me! Back to the electrics now to relocate the rectifier and relays etc.