I thought I'd better start a new thread, both to avoid confusion, and to motivate me to get on with it.
As I mentioned in another thread, I have accumulated nearly enough spare 175 bits to put another bike together. And as I'm starting from a pile of unrelated parts, rather than desecrating an existing bike, I have no qualms about building something that may indeed turn out to be my very own 'brat' bike !
What I think I'm aiming to do is to convert my heap of bits into something resembling an SL175 !
I just needed to source a few of the parts that I'm missing, and can't fabricate myself. So, yesterday, a box arrived containing a CB175 swing arm, CB200 swing arm pivot bolt, CB175 rear footpeg / exhaust mount brackets and chain adjusters.
The swing arm bushes were rusted solid, completely seized, so first task was to extract them, using a piece of M10 stud, some M10 nuts, a 1/2" drive 13mm socket and a 19mm socket. Good soak in GT85 ( like WD40 but smells nicer ), and out they came, after using quite a bit of force, some creaking and cracking noises as the rust lost its hold.
Rust removed and bushes bores cleaned up, all fits together nice and freely now, most satisfying.
As I mentioned in another thread, I have accumulated nearly enough spare 175 bits to put another bike together. And as I'm starting from a pile of unrelated parts, rather than desecrating an existing bike, I have no qualms about building something that may indeed turn out to be my very own 'brat' bike !
What I think I'm aiming to do is to convert my heap of bits into something resembling an SL175 !
I just needed to source a few of the parts that I'm missing, and can't fabricate myself. So, yesterday, a box arrived containing a CB175 swing arm, CB200 swing arm pivot bolt, CB175 rear footpeg / exhaust mount brackets and chain adjusters.
The swing arm bushes were rusted solid, completely seized, so first task was to extract them, using a piece of M10 stud, some M10 nuts, a 1/2" drive 13mm socket and a 19mm socket. Good soak in GT85 ( like WD40 but smells nicer ), and out they came, after using quite a bit of force, some creaking and cracking noises as the rust lost its hold.
Rust removed and bushes bores cleaned up, all fits together nice and freely now, most satisfying.