Back working on the "Snotrod"

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Strange guy shows up at the house, turns out my son girlfriend had bought some old badges for the k11. They looked rubbish and had damage...... The wife was out so the kit hen turned into a workshop. Some glue, the cooker, a blade and some sanding stuff and we now have gloss black badges...... Basically the micras no longer a poverty spec model, is now an "SE "...... With poverty spec features
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And seeing as I'm not allowed any more sideline projects........ I made a cheeky offer on this. It's a wreck but nothing that a couple of hours won't remedy. May go for a fast flip or may keep it for riding around car shows on.

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Sons girl was around so we fitted the go faster decals..... Must have added at least 6 bhp...

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Strip down started. It's a bigger mess than I expected but it's too late to stop now. The bike stand was bent so that's been addressed and the rest of the bike is stripped now.

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So after a hectic day at the farm I continued stripping the old mf135. So many bolts and bent parts. Had to revert back to my redneck engineering skills to straighten the badly bent parts. Painted a couple of parts and have had to order a new lower section. I'd have spent days trying to get that straight so I made the decision to buy in. Thankfully there's loads of tractor parts out there and places like Agri part sell pretty much everything. I'm not going full on resto, this is just a tidy up. The grey tractor belongs to my wife's charity whereas the ren and green are farm assets. We were quoted 1k to make the massey tidy..... But our tractor driver has a friend who has already sorted the million leaks out for me. Here's where I'm at.... And I know I left it looking like a glueless model kit. Millions of pics so I know how to reassemble everything.

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Well that's all a waste of time..... Got up early, filled and primed the bike frame and started the seat recovering. Seat backs now painted and the cranks out. Handlebars painted matt black and the stand is white. The frame however spat pretty much all the primer off. So now I have to go back to the start and resand the lot again..... 😒

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Second attempt....

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The seat.. Got a run so will have to wait...... Again. Once dry I'll resand it and go back over the rubbish area...... Again


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It's not perfect but once the decals arrive it'll be fine.

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Slowly reassembling things....

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Been a busy week but did a couple of bits
Not the best paint job I've done but I'm not keeping this one so I'm fine with it.

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Fitted a new air filter in the "yota". Recon the old one had been in there for years. Forgot how poxy it is to put the two rear clips back on

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How do you upload your pics on here mr? As they always take an utter age to load (sometimes not at all) this end

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As you already know, I couldn't upload anything here for ages and you kindly posted them all for me. The add pics option directly under the post bit seems to work really fast now. Just select the pics I want and sometimes it's fast, others can be a bit slower. Maybe the res of the pics? Guessing you've got a 50'000mp camera smartphone? Maybe poor signal where your based?

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So I've taken on a ton of projects over the years and have never been beaten.searched for it for over 30+ years this nold old walkman, only finding it to be faulty etc...
I found the new drive belts. Decided to swap em over today... Got it apart, got the belts fitted and then a wire broke free. Then another and another. So now I've given in, never quit a project before but this has really pressed all my buttons. Will I go back and try again............ Probably not😔

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Called in to add a horn to the 3bhp nissan🙄 now its basically a nismo 😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂

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Parts arrived 😁

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Was working at the farm yesterday so only took one pic of the silver front cheeks of the 135.i have another nose end part in the kitchen at home to get a paint match from too. I dragged a water butt off a dumped trailer 4 Fields away and chucked that onto my old trailer. I bought it off a guy here years ago and now it's getting another release of life. The trailer that never dies 😂🤣😂🤣. Did a few bits on the chopper too. Annoyingly the v brake pads need to be thicker so if that's not a thing, I'll get longer bolts and ad spacers behind them. Started doing the mural on the reptile areas walls too. The guys there will finish it off as part of their life skills stuff


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