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Posted: 11:42 - 08 Mar 2019 Post subject: Freshening up after a short (9 year) break |
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Having passed my big bike test last august, and after getting extremely bored with my absolutely shocking SYM 125, I started looking around for a nice juicy 600 to start riding instead.
I managed to get my hands on a 55 plate Bandit 650s! 3500 miles from new, one careful older gentleman owner, barely a mark on the thing! MOT history and HPI checks all check out so it's pretty certainly a genuine bike with very low miles!
Only issue is that he put it to bed late 2009 and since then its done 20 miles to go and get its MOT in December 2018, so safe to say it's gonna need some freshening up before I can get out on the road and properly enjoy it!
Symptoms of storage:
Runs rough as a badgers a*se for the first minute when cold, then gets progressively better and better until its purring away beautifully after 5 minutes of wiggling the throttle. All cylinders running evenly though as exhaust manifolds are showing near identical temperatures!
The fork oil seals are weeping a bit, and the dust boots look pretty perished.
My plan of action:
Spark plugs,
Oil + filter,
Drain off all the old fuel and run through some new stuff with a strong helping of redex. (if I can get the carb bowls off without splitting the carbs apart I'll do that too),
Fork oil seals to be replaced.
Anything else you lot can recommend I look at doing other than giving it a good hoon on some of the nice country roads around my house?
Cheers in advance!
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Posted: 09:42 - 11 Mar 2019 Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the advice so far!
Tyres are getting higher and higher on my priorities list!!! Any objections to a mid range tyre like the Michelin Pilot Power?
After the weekend's tinkering, I have now:
Changed spark plugs,
Changed oil and filter,
Basic carb clean (carbs off, bowls off, old fuel all over the garage floor, everything hosed down with cleaner),
As much old fuel as I could get out all poured into the old 125 (it actually looked alright), and a full tank of BP's finest go faster juice.
It starts up much quicker and runs better than it did, however it's also only running on 3 cylinders now (was definitely running on 4 before)... 3 are hot and one is stone cold. I've used a spark tester in the HT lead and it was still sparking over the biggest gap my tester goes to so I don't think the leads of coils are the issue. Could potentially be that one of the new spark plugs died in the mail as they were wrapped up fairly poorly, so I'm going to swap 1 and 4 (its 1 that doesn't fire any more) when I next get time and see if 1 starts to run again. Could also be that I ballsed up and blocked the carb jets when I was cleaning them...
Other than that, I've checked the brakes, brake lines, fluid, disks, and pads, and they all seem in good shape, although I might be tempted if HEL do a big discount weekend any time soon, and new pads some time soon too probably isn't the worst idea ever. As for the bearings and linkages mentioned above, they all feel fine at the moment. No grinding / clunking and no stiff spots at all, but checking and renewing the grease is also on my do to list.
Thanks again for all the good advice!!! ____________________ "Nothing is impossible with the right attitude and a hammer!" |
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it rode 20 miles 3 months ago... surely most of this was sorted for that ride, plus the mot? ____________________ CBT - 17/09/12 * Theory - 23/10/12 * Mod1 - 05/03/13 * Mod2 - 25/03/13 * BOSH!
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The look of death I got when I suggested those... ____________________ "Nothing is impossible with the right attitude and a hammer!" |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 46 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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