{"id":266,"date":"2010-04-10T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-04-10T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T15:08:10","slug":"week-commencing-5th-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Week commencing 5th April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday: <\/strong>Today was one of those days when I had a chance to ride with friends in the sun\u00a0 and declined\u00a0 as I, hopefully,\u00a0 only have a couple of hours work left to do before the rebuild is finished.<\/p>\n

First job<\/em><\/strong> re-fit the exhausts. Easy get the new set of gaskets out OOPS too big won’t go in the opening in the head, must be the wrong one. B….. Fleabay. Now I will have to wait at least a week whilst I get some from the stealer.<\/p>\n

Second job<\/em><\/strong> fit the kick stand. Can’t get it on as the jack is in the way, have to wait till I can get an assistant and re-position the jack.<\/p>\n

Third job<\/em><\/strong> re-route the front brake lines and the throttle cables as I fitted them wrongly\u00a0 :'( Good job I saw a friends Valk yesterday and realised. That went off without too much of a hitch.<\/p>\n

Fourth job<\/strong><\/em> re-bleed the front brakes. Ran out of new brake fluid and all the shops shut as it is a public holiday.<\/p>\n

Fifth job<\/strong><\/em> fit the airbox. Thanks to everyone who says that this is a PITA job it certainly is. Got the airbox in between the frame rails relatively easily after a lot of effort and about 20 minutes pushing and pulling I got the small pipes refitted and\u00a0 the rear two hoses on to the carbs. After about another 40 minutes of struggling to get the centre and front ones on I called it a day.<\/p>\n

Today was quite clearly a day when I should have gone riding rather than working on the Valk.<\/p>\n

Saturday: <\/strong>Nothing done all week waiting for the exhaust gaskets to arrive. I decided to have another go at the airbox.\u00a0 First off I removed it again. Checked the location of the wiring and repositioned it just to make sure there was enough room for the airbox to drop down fully. I tried removing the rear carburettor brace plate as suggested on the VRCC forum to get my hand in under the airbox.\u00a0 I got the nuts off the plate and got it loose but could not manoevre it out between the carbs and the engine hangers so gave up and put it back. I tried pushing pulling swearing and in the end had managed to get one of the rear tubes correctly lined up. I was getting ready to hit it with a hammer but decided not to and so have left it until next week when I will have a go with the ratchet strap method.<\/p>\n

A really annoying, frustrating unproductive week this week and I am so close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday: Today was one of those days when I had a chance to ride with friends in the sun\u00a0 and declined\u00a0 as I, hopefully,\u00a0 only have a couple of hours work left to do before the rebuild is finished. First job re-fit the exhausts. Easy get the new set of gaskets out OOPS too big […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebuild.turnspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}