Today I spent a good 6 hours in the work shop, which has achieved a 19c ambient temparature with the underfloor heating on the night time setting; it's nice not to have freezing cold feet!
The cylinder heads of my Guzzi T3 which are awaitin reassembly finally had their exhaust studs replaced; two threads needed helicoiling on the lefthand head, the right was perfect. I also glass bead blasted the new 950 cylinders I have bought, as they were a very dull casting, and doing so will have sealed the pores in the alloy.
A old cobblers shoe last that we've been using as a door stop also got the blasting treatment with aluminium oxide. then a good wire brushing to brighten up the vast iron, followed by a ceramic polish to seal it.
Then I got to have a look at the RGA Sprint. I thought that I'd get the chain guard fitted, and then realised I'd put the right hand lower shock mounting bolt in the wrong way around...bugger...the back wheel will have to come out again! That's a job for tomorrow! I also perused the wiring loom (again) ; electric string isn't my favourite job. It's the stock RGA loom with a sub-loom for the twin cibies powered with a secondary supply direct from the battery. As I'm going to build a completely new loom with modern watertight connectors, that secondary supply can be re-jigged into the main loom. The rest of the loom looks fairly straight forward, though there does seem to be a huge amount of wires for a fairly basically equiped motorcycle!
