Hi there

[Snowtigeress]

WORK! Small progress since my last week-end off; work have been taking the piss. I went into the office last Monday , they moaned I was 'signing out' manually, not on my 'phone. I told them I couldn't sign out on my phone as it wasn't charging.. so some-one tested it and called me a liar... I asked how long it should take to charge, "About eight hours!" they said. Hmm, so give me EIGHT f***ing hours between rounds to charge the fucker! Maybe even get some SLEEP!.. not that they dont listen, but some-one said "Cant you charge it from a cigarette lighter?"... I actually felt like getting my zippo out, and setting fire to the phone infront of them then saying "Nope! That dont seem to work either!" TWATS! So, where we got with the Guzzi?



Swing-Arm peg, Jammed in the threads not winding in nor out, when we discovered I had to take it off again to fit missing gaiter clip! This needed to be removed. The allen key it should have come out with, failed. The hex rounding. Tef ground some slots into an old allen socket so we could hammer a nail into the crack to try and make it grip... that failed; so we slotted it and tried a tyre lever.

This little bugga would not b-u-d-g-e... so working with wot-I-got....



Boring fiddly little bits; cleaning up the threads on all the engine bolts....



And put the lower-frame rails back on.



And hook up the gear-linkage..



On the stand and a jack..



And, then drop the bike back on top!

Ugh! Now I HAVE to do something with that ruddy swing-arm peg. So, what can we do?
Well, Tef said 'more brute force'... this failed. Heat had been suggested... Oh-Kay...


Hot-air paint stripper... Look, if we had oxy-ascetalene, this bike would be lava by now!



So heat AND brute force, then, and... grrrrr! effin thing!
Te-eh-FH!
He pondered the problem for a couple of days, and after leaving him in the back-yard with an old metal fence post and a grinder... I came home to find he had made a 'tool' and was moaning about 'purchase'. I left him rummaging in the old socket box, and he came up with a new 'tool', which aparently had more 'purchase'... Lets see how that worked out shall we?



Yeah! With and without heat... Tef's neat little socket, selected to fit snugly over the peg, carefully drilled to take an old allen key, everything ground carefully for this 'purchase' he reckoned we needed...

So, running out of suggestions... time to get brutal...



Drill, and Dremel, and a lot of little dremmel stones... Tef did warn me...



And hollowing out enough metal, and applying enough brute force to it after....



Ha! Take that Stubborn Pag! You LOOOSE! Why did you insist we do it the hard way?



So, swing arm off, and 'just' the small worry of whether there are any threads left in it! PHEW. I have to admit I was worried I might have been a little heavy handed, but no. all good.



I had offer of a tap to clean the threads if they were a little damaged, but carefully winding new peg in from the back, then back and forth all good!



SO! can put that stupid little clip in the boot!



AND try and put it all back together again!

And THAT is sum total of another weekend off.... but having 'rebelled' in the office last week, for some strange reason, they have taken half my shifts off me... so I might have some more time to get something done in the week... even though I probably wont have any money to put petrol in it when its working again! Zero-f***ing-hour-contracts = indentured labour = re-legalised slavery, I reckon! Some-one, ANY-ONE! Give me a REAL job, you know, with like, time off, holidays, and 'pay' that's actually more than the rent!

[smdl]

Can-do?  I'll say!   :pop

Cheers,
Shaun

[Xlratr]

Can't wait to see this thing running! Talk about dedication!
Great job!


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[Aaron D.]

Consider making a set of "how-to" videos and selling them. You are born to it.

[canuguzzi]

Just had to read every post in this. When I saw the hammer I knew you were into this but good. If only MG made the service manuals as clear.

Hats off.

[Snowtigeress]

Can't wait to see this thing running! Talk about dedication!
Great job!


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here you go

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204279123568393&l=6889100960731378304

Finished him off this morning
just got some niggling to sort out

My other half being crash test dummy

[Lannis]

Consider making a set of "how-to" videos and selling them. You are born to it.

There have been many good "How To" photo essays on here over the years, including jobs like Stelvio swing-arm removals.    This is on par with ANY of them in terms of technical goodness and clarity.   And it exceeds them in artistic content and motivational goodness ..... !

Thanks!!

Don't forget, Facebook isn't available to a lot of us ... we'd hate to miss anything ....

Lannis

[Snowtigeress]

was trying to edit the video....cut some bits out but cant find the software :(

Im now uploading to YOutube

[youcanrunnaked]

Nice job!

[Snowtigeress]

[url][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtHDyZL8VmI&feature=youtu.be/url]

ok try this

[Xlratr]

Finished him off this morning
just got some niggling to sort out

Well that was quick! Great stuff.
Enjoy the ride, and thanks for the great read!

Looking forward to the next project :-). What'll it be?


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[normzone]

YOU GOT IT RUNNING! YOU GOT IT RUNNING!

San Diego salutes you. What can I send you as a congratulatory award? A gallon of petrol?

[Chuck in Indiana]

[url][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtHDyZL8VmI&feature=youtu.be/url]

ok try this

Nope, didn't work for me. On a hunch, I tried searching for snowtigress, but ended up with some girl getting her 45th piercing in a.... oh, never mind. ;D

Attagirl! Anyway.. ;D

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

Nope, didn't work for me. On a hunch, I tried searching for snowtigress, but ended up with some girl getting her 45th piercing in a.... oh, never mind. ;D

Attagirl! Anyway.. ;D

try this chuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtHDyZL8VmI&feature=youtu.be/


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[oldbike54]

Nope, didn't work for me. On a hunch, I tried searching for snowtigress, but ended up with some girl getting her 45th piercing in a.... oh, never mind. ;D

Attagirl! Anyway.. ;D

Come clean Chuck , how much of the "Oh never mind" getting pierced video did you watch ? :D
 Great work Tiggy , we are ALL impressed  ;-T Love the bare feet .
   Dusty

[Zoom Zoom]

Congratulations on a job well done! :BEER:

John Henry

[johnr]

A thing that has impressed me through out all this is that a great deal of the work was done outside! Frankly I would have found that, well, onerous.  I think that at the very least I would have tried to get hold of a large tent. Perhaps it doesn't rain in England as much as reputed.

In any case, well done Tigger. I imagine there a few jobs to do on it yet, (like de-rusting that front disk) but well done. It runs!

[Snowtigeress]

well on Sunday I followed Mike on weeble to the biggest car park and had a potter on him oh it was cool even though i looked and was acted like a noob again .. pics to follow later as they are on film....

Everyone makes it sound so easy stepping up to a bigger bike...But i have ridden for so long on a likkle one that I got worried,even though 18 years ago the first bike I rode was a cbr600,must be me age more worried then when i was in my 20's

[Muzz]

Great to hear that it is up and running.

Talk about over and beyond the call of duty! Hats off. ;-T

That effort deserves a  :BEER:

[M0T0Geezer]

This thread is just too good (and useful for 750 owners) to let it moulder away on Page 99 or whatever depth it had sunk to.

Therefore this is a **BUMP* to kick it to the top again.

Such excellent pictures and heroic effort from this plucky Brit  are not to be cast into the dustbin.

[redrider90]

No question that this is an excellent thread and I for one look forward to some video. I am sorry Snowtigress but I do not understand "English". In fact I often used closed captions  watching British films.  ;D ;D . In the meantime maybe someone can translate the following sentence.

"I followed Mike on weeble to the biggest car park and had a potter on him oh it was cool even though i looked and was acted like a noob again".

What is a "weeble" and what does it mean that you "had a potter on him" and you acted like a "noob"?
Sorry but like I said use subtitles when watching Brits movies and even then I do not always understand what I am reading.  :pop

[Chuck in Indiana]

No question that this is an excellent thread and I for one look forward to some video. I am sorry Snowtigress but I do not understand "English". In fact I often used closed captions  watching British films.  ;D ;D . In the meantime maybe someone can translate the following sentence.

"I followed Mike on weeble to the biggest car park and had a potter on him oh it was cool even though i looked and was acted like a noob again".

What is a "weeble" and what does it mean that you "had a potter on him" and you acted like a "noob"?
Sorry but like I said use subtitles when watching Brits movies and even then I do not always understand what I am reading.  :pop

I think weeble is a small bike. A car park is a parking lot. Had a potter on him.. rode the newly rebuilt bike. Rode and acted like a noob again.. rode like a beginner..
I think.  ;D

[redrider90]

I think weeble is a small bike. A car park is a parking lot. Had a potter on him.. rode the newly rebuilt bike. Rode and acted like a noob again.. rode like a beginner..
I think.  ;D

Well I know a car park is a parking lot.  :D  But I was having trouble with weeble, had a potter on him and noob.

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

A slow ride over to putter (sic) around on him (the new bike) in a parking lot?


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[Sasquatch Jim]

  You will of course be wearing red suspenders when you take it out on the road.

[Snowtigeress]

I think weeble is a small bike. A car park is a parking lot. Had a potter on him.. rode the newly rebuilt bike. Rode and acted like a noob again.. rode like a beginner..
I think.  ;D

weeble is the name I gave the Guzzi as the wobble from side to side but don't fall down

[Chuck in Indiana]

weeble is the name I gave the Guzzi as the wobble from side to side but don't fall down

Hiya Snowtigress.. what's up?  ;D Have any projects in the works? Get your small block sorted out?

[Late to the party]

Hiya Snowtigress.. what's up?  ;D Have any projects in the works? Get your small block sorted out?

Seriously. Inquiring minds need to know.

[M0T0Geezer]

Snowtigress,

In the wee video of that fantastic "born-again" first ride, there was a fair amount of blue smoke from the right pipe.

Comapred to what you've already come through on Weeble, sorting out an oil burning cylinder is a minor annoyance.

What a great asset to our 750 heritage.

OK: Put up a PayPal account on here and I'll send over some beer money for you and your mates!    :BEER:

And if a few of the rest of us do the same, you'll have enough left over for rings, pistons, rebores & whatever. 

All of you deserve it, but you in particular!

'Geezer

'Geezer