Nc30 rescue
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:04 pm
After bringing my nc23 back from the dead last year with a purely mechanical resoration, I've decided that this winters evenings are going to be spent putting an NC30 back on the road.
Picked up the project on Saturday, together with another NC23. The VFR had apparently been sat for 8 years, but its mostly there with the exception of the rearsets and a couple of small brackets.
Plastics are fibreglass, non original colours and the tank has been resprayed, not the best finish in the world, but it rust free internally.
Been giving it a going over, before I striped it too far I wanted to make sure it ran so I changed the oil, fitted the carbs, jumped the battery and gave it a good cranking before engaging the ignition. About 30 secs of cranking and fiddling with the carbs later it sparked into life, but only on 3 cylinders. Pulled the carbs, confirmed a decent spark on the cold cylinder and cleaned out the offending carb - managed to get it going on 4 - chuffed!
Initial appraisal of the bike is that its a little bit rough, but salvagable, front stanchions are badly pitted, side covers are flakey, rear wheel was really stuck on the hub, exhaust joint well past it, both wheels need powdercoating and the whole thing needs a damn good clean.
On a positive note, despite the calipers leaking, the brake pistons look good, disks have plenty of meat and its fitted with braided lines, chain and sprockets only need a decent clean, clocks show circa 25,000km and the engine didn't smoke when running (except for the first little bit when it burned off the oil I put down the bores)
Over the last couple of evenings I've been stripping things off - made an Abba style stand last night and got the exhaust off tonight without too much drama:
Initial plans were to build a track / part time road bike, but the nc23 does the track part really well (suspension + brake mods) so I think I'm going for a nice road bike in type 1 colours instead, which may get used for the odd track day.
On the look out for some decent front forks (later type preferred) a decent rear shock (got a late type fitted, but think I'm going for a S1000rr item)and some original rearsets. I may go for an exhaust change at some point if and when funds allow.
Picked up the project on Saturday, together with another NC23. The VFR had apparently been sat for 8 years, but its mostly there with the exception of the rearsets and a couple of small brackets.
Plastics are fibreglass, non original colours and the tank has been resprayed, not the best finish in the world, but it rust free internally.
Been giving it a going over, before I striped it too far I wanted to make sure it ran so I changed the oil, fitted the carbs, jumped the battery and gave it a good cranking before engaging the ignition. About 30 secs of cranking and fiddling with the carbs later it sparked into life, but only on 3 cylinders. Pulled the carbs, confirmed a decent spark on the cold cylinder and cleaned out the offending carb - managed to get it going on 4 - chuffed!
Initial appraisal of the bike is that its a little bit rough, but salvagable, front stanchions are badly pitted, side covers are flakey, rear wheel was really stuck on the hub, exhaust joint well past it, both wheels need powdercoating and the whole thing needs a damn good clean.
On a positive note, despite the calipers leaking, the brake pistons look good, disks have plenty of meat and its fitted with braided lines, chain and sprockets only need a decent clean, clocks show circa 25,000km and the engine didn't smoke when running (except for the first little bit when it burned off the oil I put down the bores)
Over the last couple of evenings I've been stripping things off - made an Abba style stand last night and got the exhaust off tonight without too much drama:
Initial plans were to build a track / part time road bike, but the nc23 does the track part really well (suspension + brake mods) so I think I'm going for a nice road bike in type 1 colours instead, which may get used for the odd track day.
On the look out for some decent front forks (later type preferred) a decent rear shock (got a late type fitted, but think I'm going for a S1000rr item)and some original rearsets. I may go for an exhaust change at some point if and when funds allow.