[gizzo]

Following the debacle of the Enfield touch up can incident, I tried painting the tail hump and side panel with some red Rattle can paint from the toy aeroplane building cupboard. It's $10 a can at the Supercheap, no specific colour just generic red. But damned if it's not almost an exact match! Couple of coats of colour and a couple of clear and it's looking presentable. Once the paint's had time to fully harden I might flat it back and polish but looks good for now. The panel alongside the hump is the original colour undamaged panel.

[ace.cafe]

Following the debacle of the Enfield touch up can incident, I tried painting the tail hump and side panel with some red Rattle can paint from the toy aeroplane building cupboard. It's $10 a can at the Supercheap, no specific colour just generic red. But damned if it's not almost an exact match! Couple of coats of colour and a couple of clear and it's looking presentable. Once the paint's had time to fully harden I might flat it back and polish but looks good for now. The panel alongside the hump is the original colour undamaged panel.

Looks like a perfect match to me. I doubt anyone will detect it.
Nice job!
 

[gizzo]

Thanks Tom.

[AzCal Retred]

Looks damn good from my house! Just try to avoid those tetrachromatic folks... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

[Guaire]

Following the debacle of the Enfield touch up can incident, I tried painting the tail hump and side panel with some red Rattle can paint from the toy aeroplane building cupboard. It's $10 a can at the Supercheap, no specific colour just generic red. But damned if it's not almost an exact match! Couple of coats of colour and a couple of clear and it's looking presentable. Once the paint's had time to fully harden I might flat it back and polish but looks good for now. The panel alongside the hump is the original colour undamaged panel.

  You can write the manual on the how to paint a CGT now!

[Taurim]

A casualty  after my high speed test last Sunday and a good 160 Km ride on small bumpy roads 
The wiring is extremely durable as the horn was dangling against the cylinder for I don't know how many kilometres
The horn is quite heavy at 350g and only held in place by 2 thin iron strips.




I replaced it with a slightly lighter horn (250g) held in place by 3 iron strips. I installed it at the same place under the tank to hide it as much as possible.

[gizzo]

That's funny. One of my horns broke off after about 2000km, the other had hung in there for 50,000.

[Taurim]

Weather it not good outside so today I cut a pipe !

[Guaire]

Weather it not good outside so today I cut a pipe !

Looks like 1.57 inches.

[Richard230]

Did you measure twice before cutting once?   

[gizzo]

I finally finished screwing my GT back together enough to take it for a spin around the suburb today. I'm still waiting for a few little bits to finish off but it's working again! Thank goodness, it rode straight and true, no crabbing so I'm confident nothing's bent. It's smoking like a train though. It spent an hour or so upside down and a lot of oil made it's way down the breather and flooded the airbox. I cleaned it out but I suppose there's still plenty coating various surfaces that'll take a while to burn out. Plus the guy who fixed my muffler repacked it with new lagging so maybe that's smoking too. I needed to add a pint of oil to top it off.

[gizzo]

My rubber clock mounts showed up today from H. Last piece of my puzzle I hope

[gizzo]

Here's a funny thing: I've finished putting the GT back together today and went to start it. Everything lit up but no starter motor. kick started fine. Tried electric start again. Still nothing. For whatever reason, I pulled the clutch lever in. I don't know why, the only bike I've ever owned with the clutch /starter lockout is my DRZ. Anyway it fired right up. Fooled around with the headlights switch and found it'll start with clutch out/headlight off but needs clutch in/headlight on. Dicked around for a bit longer and now it's back to usual, starts any old how, no clutch input required.

I've never bothered looking at the wiring that goes into the clutch switch til now but sure enough, unplug it and the bike won't crank. I guess the switch must have been faulty since new?

[Arschloch]

That´s funny. How about the neutral indicator, does that work as intended?

[gizzo]

That´s funny. How about the neutral indicator, does that work as intended?

Yep, that's always worked fine.

So it shouldn't start without the clutch pulled in ever,  or is it to prevent starting in gear only? That's how it seems to work right now.