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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      It's a Roller All afternoon and all gets done is basic front end install? Yes but changing this, borrowing that redoing something else...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Balancing Needs The forks have come in the mail, so today I spent a lot of time putting the rear end together, chain guard, plastic...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      My thoughts too, but the pipes are pretty close together, you'd have to have an offset to the megs or some sort of staggered mount sort...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      It's a Runner! But it won't go, lol. Sorta anticlimactic, though, don't these always start? Not really, I am battling with a BBK and a...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Good News Today I was running the starter to circulate the new oil and figured I would check compression at the same time. All orifices...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Thinking more about it, I am guessing someone decided to grab the threaded cable boss, loosened the set screw, took it. Had that person...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      It had been slated to be a parts bike for a cafe build and I think a guy was just taking stuff apart.
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Lucky Today! I changed the bottom oil screen and mount plate, nothing remarkable there, the gasket surfaces were fairly easy to clean...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Today was title day. Drafted an affidavit that fulfilled Service Ontario's requirements (you may know that place as a licence bureau or...
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      lakeview replied to the thread '74 TX650 Build/misadventure.
      Looks pristine now! That's one of my jobs for tomorrow, I am going to lay the Special over on its side and let my knees complain instead...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Magic Button Works! Another few hours this morning and then this afternoon and great progress. Got enough wiring connected to get the...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      For now, it's going together with existing parts. Trying to empty some shelves.
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Ya Won't Get Far Like That! Spent a happy afternoon mocking up the front end (worn out fork tubes are there just to align headlight...
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      lakeview replied to the thread Survivor Special '79 - 6737km.
      Frame Rub a Dub; Engine Install Today it was a couple degrees above freezing, but sunny, so I sprayed and scrubbed the frame and then...
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      Picked up a parts bike from a fellow who is building a '75 into a cafe. Was not intending to until I saw the speedo showing low miles...
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      It does show 6737km and the frame and motor are clean and undisturbed by a guy with a full case of beer and half a plan. Actually, the...
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      Must be Spring - Bought a Project A '78 Special, said to be low miles, that a fellow bought for parts and did not need. So I have...
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      I was just looking at post #7 by gggGary in the "Cam Chain Adjuster Querie" thread and my adjuster is sunk in almost as far as the one...
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