Monty the Rwd R1 engined tarmac eating Minus by Alburglar

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Finally found time to finish the collapsable steering column. It all went together nice and fit perfect, but because the column is now flexible at the UJ's the whole thing wobbled about. So I've used the sliding bracket from another steering coloumn and was gonna make a brace between that and the pedal box frame. However, I managed found a nice galvenised bracket in my scrap metal box which fit perfectly! Isn't nice when you get some good luck every now and again.

11-2-2007

Typical, one step forward, two steps back.
I thought I'd been clever and solved a big problem today. R1 motorbikes don't have any oil pressure or temperature guages, therefore the engines have no senders either. I thought I could solve this problem easy. I got an oil cooler sandwhich plate and drilled straight through it a couple of times so Oil would always be passing through it.

Then fitted a 1/2 to 3/8 bsp (male/female) and a 1/2 to 1/8 bsp (male/male) adapters to it so I could run a mechanical split oil temp and pressure guage via a length of braided hose for the pressure and the standard sender for the temp.

This was great until I realised that the oil filter has been spaced out so far that it touches the exhaust manifold.

I could just tap and thread a 1/8 bsp into this bolt in the water cooled oil cooler and get my oil pressure but then I can't use my split guage,

so I'm gonna bug some mates with acces to machine shops and make up a new sandwhich plate that only has the 3/8 and 1/8 holes in it so I can make it alot thinner.