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member 'speedshop' makes looms on a professional basis.

Greetings David, nice clean bike you have there

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Greetings Paul the oldie

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Rob I think Athena ones are good quality with a thin rubber coating just like yamaha ones, perhaps you can confirm this. If so you wouldnt 'need' to use sealant, however personally I think a thin 7mm wide wipe of silicone manifold sealant around the circumference of the bore (each side of the gasket) is good practice, I read an awful lot of DTR head gasket reports. If you are using a cheap pattern all metal gasket then the silicone is a must...whatever you do though dont cover the whole thing in it as you will struggle removing the head at a later date.

Greetings Emma,

Ahh dont worry about it Emma, its not like you would know what to do with them

Bit of a late reply Jonathan The fact it ran the other day suggests to me that things cannot be all that bad? I am wondering if all this trying to start her has washed the bores with fuel and dispersed any oil sealing around the rings thereby losing compression, the finger test is a bit rough and ready. Try squirting some oil in each bore through the spark plug hole, hopefully this will seal the rings for better compression and result in a bit more action.

just tape them up and out of harms way

will you expand on that plz, my bandit wont start and I am expecting to find gunge in the carb, ok it has been laid up for winter and the fuel may be a little stale but I would love to hear your findings, the bike was predominantly filled with morrisons fuel.

you dont need one do you? your bike runs without a battery. only when ypvs fitted would a battery be required.

Check clutch plate thickness and piston ring wear (end gap)

Greetings Jay

Greetings Rob, member deenjay has one of those although we dont see him nowadays

Greetings Richard

No mate I dont use mine in the dark on unlit roads, dont expect much even if it is 12v. My DTR is 12v and a simillar setup, ie headlamp straight from magneto, kinda glows different shades of orange for different engine speeds

No But he'll give you a good welcoming

Yeah that was mine NEO, as expensive as you think it was I broke even on it! Thats a neat little rack you modified there it reminds me of the DTMX's in France, they had genuine yamaha racks available to them.

Greetings John a picture when you get her?

Hey only last night I was thinking...wonder when the big day will be. Congrats Pat and mrs Pat

New tinkerer or old, take photos as you go so you can remember cable routing and attachment etc, bag and mark the bags for screws and fasteners etc or screw them back when things are disassembled

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