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140/80x17, has 8mm thread left, no cuts, no chunks, does not fit any of my bikes. Must go. Cape Town / Goodwood R800 WhatsApp 0823168502

Did you get all the parts you need?

The camshaft can be in any condition as long as the decompressor mechanism is still working! Please do NOT try to remove it yourself!

Very good condition. Little valve and valve seat wear. Can be fitted and used as is with no repair required. Complete assembly including camshafts. Cam journal diameter is stock. This is NOT a line bored head with chromed up shafts! Valve clearances are set to the values in the picture (0.20mm+...

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Background: I have a fairly neat but very high mileage 2000 model DR650SE and a customer's wreck with nothing much usable left of its engine. Both bikes are papered and paid up. Plan: I build a brand new engine using the old casings. I replace everything inside. Nikasil, piston, rings, con rod...

Sold to Tony, I hope you will do as many happy kilometres asIdid - and more!

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Might have an original E model windscreen too. But still busy organising parts after the workshop move.

I have seats available. One in very goodcondition ,just redone professionally with a structured "carbon fibre" texture cover. Also seats which need anew cover wiht foam fullyintact or with foam damage for lowering projects. WhatsApp 082 3168502

Not quite. I had that issue many years ago with my VF1100C. I bypassed the pump when it died and thought I ride the bike on gravity feed and just keep it close to full all the time. The bike would randomly splutter and sometimes die all together from fuel starvation even with the tank filled to...

Generic fuel pumps used to cause all sorts of issues on these bikes. Been there, done that, bought three and had only two working fine. 1983 Honda VF1100C. The pump must be designed to work on a carb with no return feed to the tank. Back in the days Pierburg made nice little rotary vane pumps...

The easy way,used by me for the last three decades, is to use a readily available Pozidriv driver or bit to work on JIS screws. They are virtually identical. The only difference is in the design of the tool tip. The difference is irrelevant this way aroud. A Pozidriv tool will fit into a JIS...

1970s Diesel Mercs of my student days ran happily on heating oil. I remember having patched up a badly rusted 200D together with my two cousins in the early 1990s. Finished at 1AM and decided to "quickly" drive down to the Costa Brava in Spain for a few days of beach fun & party. Just to find...

By the way: That's the bike. https://wilddog.net.za/threads/one-year-on-a-dr650se.23390/ Further mods since then: Dinesh did the seat for me with more foam and a custom two colour cover. I fitted one of the famous Le Cap bash plates. It comes with the bike. I just took it off for cleaning and...