Recent Posts

Good save on the switch. It’ll probably outlast a modern replacement anyway. It looks like the terminal screw was loose for decades. In my experience, it’s nearly always the neutral one that you find loose. It’s always worth checking terminal screws on anything you have the cover off, regardless of whether you went in there for that or not.

Remind me; is the long term plan to move the steering wheel to the proper side?

Exactly.

I quite like green. I’ve been driving a green motor, and riding (or pushing) a green motorcycle for most of my adult life, but if ever there was a perfect example of “too much green”, that is it.

I would much prefer this one 👇

Sometimes wires like that are redundant earths from the telephone line.

Our old house had some strange wires around the front of the bay window. A chance conversation with a neighbour revealed they weren’t ever to do with anything electrical, but had been used to support some climbing plants. 🤣

Happy birthday. Enjoy the day. 😃👍

Had time to look at the offending rear brake Friday.

With the wheel in the air it was possible to feel a slight rub. Nothing dreadful, but definitely enough to be the cause of the problem.

Wheel off and I get my first clue as to the cause behind it.



There’s a fair amount of soot from my leaky, smoky exhaust. Not surprising really, when the rear part of it looked like this before I changed it at the end of November:



Not many pictures I’m afraid, by this point I was too grubby to be taking any, and a bit up against the clock. With the drum off it was clear that I’d got a piston seized in the wheel cylinder. Properly stuck. It took a bit of heat and some brute force to free it, and when I got it out there was loads of black gunk on the piston. I think the amount of black soot inside the drum points to that being the culprit, but I’m not 100%, so I’ll probably put a pair of cylinders on the next parts order. Doesn’t hurt to have them in stock. I might have the other side apart the next dry day we get, just to be safe.

With the pistons both out, cleaned and refitted with a generous dollop of red rubber grease, a quick bleed up let me have a visual check that everything was moving as it should. 👍

And people think I’m nuts. 🤣👍

Afternoon. 😃

A couple of years ago nearly, you might remember me dealing with this:



By fitting a new pair of cylinders, like this:



Well, the other night I got home and noticed an odd smell at the rear; something hot that shouldn’t be. A cautious hand on the n/s rear hub revealed it to be quite hot.

So. Investimigations… report to follow.

Great progress. Well done. 👍