Friday, 21 December 2012

Replacing the distributor clamp

As usual, click any image to zoom in.



These photos are actually from a while ago but I've only just found them on my pinhole camera obscura.
Mike Kilvert (the seller of Mark's bike) came up with his Dad, Rich (that's what he told us, anyway) a few days after selling it to try to sort out why Mark's bike wouldn't start when cold.
At the time we thought the clamp holding the distributor was moving so we bought a replacement and fitted it with their help.
We haven't got a fancy stand to lift the bike into the air so we just rested it on Mike's knee and the foot peg!
One neat trick was using a screwdriver to pull the kickstart spring out of the way so that they could remove the inner cover.
We had trouble getting the inner cover back on though. Turned out that the shaft between the kickstart and the gear lever was coming under a hydraulic effect so we had to use a syringe to remove oil from the hole it sits in.















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