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New project : 1975 Suzuki T500 Titan
- Thread starter srmauer
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Yeah mikes always sent 40 spokes but they were for 36 spoke rims. kinda handy to have couple extra.
I "measured" and the XS front drum has a 224mm spoke circle, the GT750 is about 225mm
That’s good intel. I’ll measure mine heading out to the garage now.
difficult to measure so I’ll have to wait until the wheel is off. Or maybe I’ll cut one out tonight
I cut one out and looks like 164mm.
bummer, yeah you can see the difference here.
Went to look at my new winter project (same person I bought the Titan from). I made the deal and left a deposit. Will pick it up next week and start a separate thread. I brought home a tie with me that had lots of misc bike parts. To my delight there were many Titan parts (nos) that are welcome spares. Unfortunately I already purchased the same parts from various sources. Included were unicorn exhaust seals
I’ll start a separate thread next on the new addition to the stable.
I’ll start a separate thread next on the new addition to the stable.
"Unicorn exhaust seals"
Why am I having visions of suppositories?
Why am I having visions of suppositories?
Unicorn butt plugs??? 
Let me ‘splain. The connection between the mufflers and head pipes of the Titan are sealed with a not so fancy seal that quite frankly are an oil seal made out of some alien material. OEM seals are super rare and people that have them won’t part with them. Some claim they’ve had success with conventional oil seals while others say they burn out because of the heat. As recently last night I ordered some Viton seals on line hoping they’d do better with the heat. Then today I score a pair of OEM’s. Very rare = unicorn. Butt you knew that
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Well played, Vic.Very rare = unicorn. Butt you knew that
Since I have all winter to work on the bikes I think I’ll tear down the engine and at least hone out the cylinders. I never knew it was this easy. I always enjoys Ichiban’s tutorials. 
Since I have all winter to work on the bikes I think I’ll tear down the engine and at least hone out the cylinders. I never knew it was this easy. I always enjoys Ichiban’s tutorials.
For about the first 20 seconds I thought it was real...
If you’ve never seen his videos before it’s worth looking at them once in a while for entertainment. Just search Ichiban Moto on YouTube. You’ll become familiar with his high tech tools and phrases. The guy is brilliant. I don’t think he’s posted much lately though.
Moved to other thread.
A friend dropped over today and wanted to hear the Titan run. Fuel on and a few kicks and “ring a ding-ding” it was purring like a kitten. I noticed some air bubbles travelling down one of the oil injection lines. I’ll have to look into that this winter. I was happy one of the two bikes started.
My friend agreed I should recycle the rear steel wheel. Can’t recall if I mentioned it earlier but I have a source for a NOS front wheel. I’ll snag that next week.
Lots of tire and wheel work coming up. Much of which will probably be happening when the cold weather sets in.
My friend agreed I should recycle the rear steel wheel. Can’t recall if I mentioned it earlier but I have a source for a NOS front wheel. I’ll snag that next week.
Lots of tire and wheel work coming up. Much of which will probably be happening when the cold weather sets in.
That's normal for an oil injection system, Vic.
I've had bikes where one side bubbled, both bubbled or none bubbled.
Remember, those lines lead to the crankcase where there's a vacuum every revolution that tries to suck the oil out of the tube. Sometimes it sucks a bit out and a bubble moves in to replace the oil that got sucked out.
Sometimes that bubble will even migrate a bit towards the pump. It's time to worry when the bubbles turn into an empty oil line. And even then there's a the chance oil is still flowing.
Your first real tell that the pump stopped pumping is when the pipes quit smoking.
Remember, those lines lead to the crankcase where there's a vacuum every revolution that tries to suck the oil out of the tube. Sometimes it sucks a bit out and a bubble moves in to replace the oil that got sucked out.
Sometimes that bubble will even migrate a bit towards the pump. It's time to worry when the bubbles turn into an empty oil line. And even then there's a the chance oil is still flowing.
Your first real tell that the pump stopped pumping is when the pipes quit smoking.
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