New Site

I have spent the last couple of days setting up the site to run off Word Press. The old site can still be visited by going to www.team47.net/oldindex.htm, I don’t plan on editing those pages in the near future, so please expect plenty of broken links in the old site.

Kawasaki GPZ 750 – Day 1

Kawasaki GPZ750 Fairing

Welcome to the year 2009

It wasn’t too cold today and I was bored, so I decided that it was time to start on the GPZ750 that I bought last year.

Stage 1 was to ditch the fairing, it probably looked pretty trick back in the 80s but it’s 2009 now. So the fairing is now sitting on my pile of scrap.

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Kawasaki GPZ 750 – Introduction

Kawasaki GPZ 750

The bike at the end of day 1.

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Kawasaki AR80 – Day 3

Seized Nut
Left Handle Bar

More seized nuts

Top right of the first picture shows a nut that is basically refusing to budge, that same nut holds on the left handlebar, the handle bars’s bolt is built into the bar. So, how do remove such a nut?

The second picture shows the left handlebar in all its glory.

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Kawasaki AR80 – Day 2

Engine Out

Work in progress

The engine came out easily enough.

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