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Nah, it's on, off and reserve. Vacuum diaphragm attached to intake 1.

I'm wondering if it's the fuel tap. It just refuses to fire up. It'll turn over n over and then one cylinder will pop every now and again. Then the battery will give up, it takes that long. After a charge it'll do it again until it'll try and run on two or three. It's got a decent spark. New air filter too, unless I ballsed up the carbs. But when it starts it runs fine. The fuel kinda dribbles out of the tube when you apply vacuum to it. It's not a "open pipe" kinda flow.

Spanner day today. I have a rebuilt and fully operational rear brake! Yaaaay. New pistons, new seals, new pads and bled out. Took longer than it should cos apparently you need to remove the rear wheel to do the caliper. Odd. Had to scour the interweb to find where the spring went in the caliper though, as it flew out when I took it off. Lol. Exhaust fitted up properly now, had to Dremel out the clamps a bit as they didn't bite down hard enough to work properly. Dropped a minor bollock when ordering the front brake stuff and ended up with one pair of pads instead of two, which was annoying but hey, probably my fault for not reading the description. Lol. So front brakes awaiting pads before I finish them off. Got master cylinder rebuild kits for front brake and clutch, along with the clutch slave rebuild kit too. But...BLING!! bought a set of 316 stainless bolts for the bike, including the front mudguard, screen, mirrors, chain guard, fairing and nose cone. Shineeeeeeey. Turned up with copper grease too. All for 30 quid. Win! Still struggling to get it to start up though. Not sure if it's the fuel tap or I've missed something in the carbs. One step forward....lol

Sorry, work got in the way again...lol https://www.detailingworld.co.uk/threads/stone-chip-repair-guide.20127/

I'll have a look for the pistons, this one had corroded between the seals. I think the crud seal had given up and it just decided it wanted to be "at one" with the caliper.

No. I had to resort to violence again. I was hoping to use the "lots of hex screwdriver bits with an Allen key" trick only the pistons were the opposite way round to the fronts. I tried air at 80psi but one of them was properly wedged in. Not sure it had worked for a long time.....

Minor update as I'm awaiting delivery of some stuff, that's getting in the way of finishing other stuff and also it's still so very chilly in the garage..... Rear caliper cleaned and painted to match the fronts, which was awkward. Not sure I've got my head around it but the caliper would only come off when the rear wheel was removed. Odd. Just couldn't see a logical way of detaching it. Anyway, the real wheel came out, caliper off, did the cleaning and painting thing, awaiting the delivery of pistons and master cylinder rebuild kits for front brake, rear brake and clutch so that'll be fun. Manky Oem exhaust covers wire brushed ito within an inch of their lives and some vht paint applied. Wires from previous alarm install sorted out too. Still taking an eternity to start though. Not sure if the fuel is getting there as it's got a decent enough spark. The choke cable is stretched (how???) so that needs help/binning. Centre stand needs to come off next to brush and paint as it looks horrendous. Slowly. It's getting there slowly.

Looking good captain! All that with one hand? Jesus, I'd struggle to get most of that done with two!! There's a good guide on stone chips over on the detailing world forum. I'll see if I can find a link. The guy lays down some touch up paint then flats it back with 1500/2000 grit then polishes it. Granted it's a BMW and the paint looked hard as nails but it's quite therapeutic to read too...

Nice line up. I love the 166. I've always fancied putting a busso v6 on throttle bodies in an rx8, just so I can upset two sets of purists in one go ...

My third one. Had a 147 ts, 159jtdm and now the giulietta tbi. It's not without it's foibles....lol

Yeah, when there's not two cars in there. When she goes to work I can move the Alfa over and waddle the CBR out.

It's loosely on. Seems the clamps don't clamp properly on the gaskets. Needs a bit of fettling. Sounds ok, once I'd got the Poxy thing started. I don't think it was happy being left.

Yeah, the rear MC is in need of a rebuild so wasn't useful and one piston wouldn't move even with 18" pipe grips on it so I'm not sure it was gonna make much difference. The wires are easier to sort.

I did think that initially, but they just don't seem to fit anywhere as the silencer support is an m8 bolt. I get the feeling that they're supposed to hold the fairing out a bit as all the fairing bolts are m6. Dunno. I'll figure it out when I get there.

So it seems that even delkevic don't know what the little metal brackets are for either. Emailed them and asked where they were supposed to go as the silencer hanging brackets take an m8 bolt through them. They emailed me back with "yes, we're supposed to supply them but don't have any pictures of where they go. "Left and right hand fairing support brackets" so I'm guessing they go into the frame and hold the fairing. Somewhere. Somehow. We'll figure that out when I get the plastic back on. Removed the tail piece and grab tail and may have answered a question that both me and my brother had. When he gave me the keys they had a "DATATOOL MK5" key plib/remote on them. Now considering he's owned it since 2004 and then sold it to me, he's never used the remote. As I removed the tail piece it all became a bit clearer. A couple of screw holes, a dead sticky pad and some 'scotchlock' (hateful things) damage to the indicator wires. So I imagine the alarm is long gone. Yay. One less thing to worry about. Just a bit of remedial to do on the wires as they have bare bits (Ooer). Rear caliper needs new pistons. They REALLY didn't want to come out of their holes. Much brute force required unfortunately. More on the shopping list. Seem cheap enough though. Used my Christmas voucher to buy a cable oiler and a hangy uppy fuel tank thingy for when I try and get it up and running again.

Minor jobs done today, hung the front calipers on, no pads yet so didn't bolt them up tight and I want to rebuild the master cylinder anyway. Changed the exhaust studs for ones of the right length, bolted the manifold and collector up. Went to fit the exhausts but they came with two stainless brackets that don't really bear any logical position. M6 welded nuts on them too so I have no clue. I've emailed them to ask (that felt daft!) so they're back in the box until I know. Rear caliper did not want to come off. Eventually had to remove the rear wheel to get it off as one of the sliders was seized. Hopefully the pistons come out easily as they're convex ones not concave and gripping them might damage them... Changed the air filter too but then remembered I was supposed to be taking photos of all this. Oops. Sorry. Lol.

Took the calipers in to work today as it's -6'c in the garage and just, no. Too cold for toying. New seals, lots of red grease, new pistons, bushes and bleed screws with covers along with a pair of new copper washers. Looks a shite sight better than it did. Rear one next...

Ultrasonic cleaning won't shift dried on petrol. Trust me here. I've just rebuilt my 1000FL carbs. And I have a small ultrasonic cleaner. It just laughed at the varnish. Get the mixture checked after checking the jets and floats.

Had a lot going on. Apologies. Wife's car decided to audition for the red arrows because the pcv stuck open and put about half a litre of oil through the turbo to the intercooler. Which was fun. Then work got some dumbass machine in that was like a spoiled brat and requires attention pretty much all day long. So proper knackered. Lol. That and money. Lol. Oh and nice to meet in Jim's gaff.

I gave up on the oem silencers. They were too far gone to be saved. Rip 34 year old cans. Hello to big box of shiney bits though. During the Christmas chaos I had the front caliper kit arrive, the fuel filter arrived and the new plugs. Today this box of sexual joy turned up at work. Very impressed so far. Just need the garage to not be -2'c and I'll get on with fitting some stuff to the old girl.

Gah, all this festive eating,drinking and attempting to be sociable really takes the wind out of your sails for a project, doesn't it???? Ok, so minor update as I've been working too much and doing the Xmas thing. Cut some M8 bolts and fitted into the head to put the collector and downpipes back on. I measured the original ones at 45mm long so I made them 50mm long and then tried to refit the downpipes. Only to find they're too short. Possibly one of those weird optical illusion things but they were definitely not having it. Weird. So I ran out of M8 bolts to murder, had to actually buy bolts which is a novelty for me. A2 stainless and a lot of copper slip and I reckon it'll keep the galvanic at bay. Just ordered the front brake caliper rebuild kit along with the rear one, new plugs, some 50mm o/d mild steel pipe to attempt a repair on both silencers and a fuel filter. That's the Xmas money spent. Lol. Anyway. Back to work again for a bit and hopefully get something done to the bike (instead of the wife's Poxy car again!!)

Haahhahhhahhaaahhhaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaahaaaaahhhaaaa. Stitch that. Right. Ahem. Sorry. Normal service will resume shortly......

Just measure up the o ring. Ducati buy them from o ring manufacturers, they don't make them themselves. As long as it fuel proof you'll be grand. I did the same with my last Alfa, took them all out, did the same thing and then found I'd lost one.

To be honest I was losing the faith at one point. Seems that over the years I've collected a hundred+ drill bits and none of them are sharp! Father in law has a huge collection of tools so I'm hoping the last one comes out. It seems to be "at one" with the ally though. Broke my bloody blowtorch too. It fell over and snapped off the little tang that holds it onto the aerosol. Grrr. This thing better fly when it's on the road.....

Ok. One left. Two came out using the two nut trick (had to cut one of the original nuts in half and use that against the full size one, they're big!). I'm borrowing a stud tool tomorrow to see if I can shift the last one but I'm not holding my breath. Also need to invest in some decent drill bits....