Well, not done much on the Puma lately apart from the usual fortnightly start and run procedure just to keep everything working but now my garage is getting emptier I found the ST170 rear hub bearing covers which I'd not re-fitted due to damaging them taking them off. On the ST170 there is nowhere to get a screwdriver in to lever the caps off so I managed to remove one with a few dents but the other one I had to stab a hole in it to get it off. Not wanting to go through that again I decided to repair the damaged one and then weld an 12mm nut on so I could twist the caps off with a spanner or socket.
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barry wilson, on Flickr
And here's the caps in place.
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barry wilson, on Flickr
I also managed to get my Aprilia petrol tank repaired using the Ethanol proof Phenol Novolac resin from Caswells UK using the stuff below
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barry wilson, on Flickr
The two part resin,chemists spoon and a beaker and some play doh.
I levelled up the tank so the fuel pump flange, which had distorted was horizontal, used some thick tape around the hole into the tank to act as formwork for the resin and then the play doh on the outside of the flange
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barry wilson, on Flickr
To stop the resin flooding into the captive threads I used some Puma washer tube over the threads of the fuel pump bolts and tightened them down and then mixed and poured the resin between the tape and the play doh.
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barry wilson, on Flickr
This is the nearly finished result and you can see the thickness of the added resin but I also did the inside of the flange as well so it's probably over twice as thick as it was. It's all sanded down and assembled on the bike now but I put a "T" piece on the fuel return line and fitted a drain so I can empty the tank when I'm not using the bike so the Ethanol problem shouldn't be an issue now.
A bit back one of my friends came through on his latest V4 Tuono. What a bike but it's too small for me. He's just had it remapped and it now makes 172 bhp at the back wheel!!!!!
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barry wilson, on Flickr