Thread: My 750 Triple Project re-ignites

Thanks everyone, there's a couple of things I will improve over the next 12 to 24mths or so once the wallet heels, engine covers aren't quite as good as they could be, they still have a few scratches that need to be polished out, new set of pipes, I'm going with Higgspeed GPs SS chambers from the UK, and a new set of handlebars, the standard ones a bit high.

Oh and there's smoke, wouldn't be a triple without it

Looks great Baz. Even as a non bike person I can appreciate that.

And its good to see you back. I was wondering what had happened to you.

Cheers,
Jon

Originally Posted by Redback

Well it's done, 10 mths a a lot of time and money, swearing and cursing, highs and lows, frustration with vendors and suppliers and countless hours in the garage by myself, I had some excellent help from Rick Roberts with lods of info and for the help he gave me putting the engine and gearbox back together, couldn't have done it without him.

So here it is...

When can you drop it off? I've cleared a spot in the shed ready

Well done, great to see an old Kwak returned to its past glory.

Originally Posted by jon3950

Looks great Baz. Even as a non bike person I can appreciate that.

And its good to see you back. I was wondering what had happened to you.

Cheers,
Jon

Thanks mate, appreciate that, how are you going, all good I hope.

Originally Posted by theresanothersteve

When can you drop it off? I've cleared a spot in the shed ready

Well done, great to see an old Kwak returned to its past glory.

Hahahaha, already had a few offers, they even mentioned money

Bike is now on historic rego as of today

Originally Posted by Redback

Bike is now on historic rego as of today

Now you can go and scare yourself.

Funny you should say that, because I gave myself(and Rick Roberts)a major scare when we started the bike last week, the throttle jammed wide open and of coarse it revved it's ring out apon starting, twice

Turned out to be the throttle cable and the slide in the centre carby, the slide had a bur at the bottom and was sticking at the very top of the barrel, we found that the left side cable was too short and kept pulling out from junction box, which means two carbys where stuck open

I fixed the slide, that was easy but we had to modify the cable, the 3 cable from the junction are different lengths but the bare section of the cables that comes out of the outer sheath should bethe same length, 3 1/4in, but the left side was only 3", we had to cut the outer sheath to exspose more cable to give some free play and we superglued the cables into the junction, it was only a tempory fix until the new cable arrived, just in case it did it when the bike was inspected for rego.

So today I will be replacing that throttle with a new one that arrived on Friday, this new cable looks like the OEM cable and none of the cables pop out of the junction like the other one does, all of the bare section of the cable are the correct length too.

Lesson learnt, don't go for the cheap option with major items and check things before you install, don't just assume they are correct.

I've been chasing an oil leak too, found it yesterday, the oil tank has a crack along the join on the bottom where the two halves are joined at the factory, I'm not going to bother fixing it, it's 43yrs old and has probably passed it's use by date and will probably get worse over time even after repairing it, I'll just replace it with a new one which I ordered today, $125, well worth it I think.

A couple more photos

I hope the kill switch works. Just in case. I don't think I would like to be on a 750 two stroke with the throttle stuck wide open. I had a XR 250 that suffered from similar cable woes. It was a !985 model with the dual carbies.