Hello All

[marcosmaniac]

Time to say HELLO, I've been using the site for a little while now during the refurbishment of my new "Toy" a sprint 900. The info you guys are posting can often prove priceless. When I've figured out how to use the site :???: . I'll try to put a little back in.

[easy_rider]

Hiya Buddy

Yep its a good place here thats for sure plenty of stuff in the archives to look back on which i find very useful.

The site is easy to use you will soon work it out, I have a 900 sprint too, Love it when it starts lol.

Cheers

Easy

[bigbird]

hi marcos
Its good to see your getting stuck in on your 900.What sort of stuff have you done? what needs doing? anything interesting, or problems?
It would be good to hear what you've been doing.

[marcosmaniac]

Whats been done? Well this could end up as a long story. I got the bike after a silly bid on Ebay, the price reflected the condition. Three days and a gallon of white spirit eventually revealed a motor cycle leaking oil from the front fork seals, Knackered front disks,paint peeling from engine casings, coolant leaks from waterpump, rear brake light switch inoperative, corroded wheel rims and floppy shift lever.

Forks seals are dead easy after making a tool to strip the dampers. The old oil was GREY and stunk. What a difference with fresh oil, at least it'll smell nice when the seals leak again!

Brake disks seem to be a silly price for Triumphs so I replaced only the outer rotors with a kit from a company called "Trade Direct" again easy to do using the original carrier and fitted new EBC pads front and rear. £65 a side.

Paint seems to be a problem for engine casings, so I've had to be inventive. Stripped all the powder coating off, sprayed with black metallic heat resistant paint, cook it form twenty Min's at gas mark 4 (wife was at work) and then sprayed with clear lacquer. The finish comes out a fractionally darker metallic Grey but should be easier to touch up if required.
Water pump was just seal replacement and I treated the hard pipe same as the engine casings after first removing all the rust.

The wheel rims are now polished having stripped the powder coating off. With a couple of days of autosol, they look like chrome.
After doing a full engine service fitting a new bush to the gear lever and pumping the tyres up the old girl feels as smooth and tight as the day she left the factory, but I've got until may next year to sort any other problems that turn up before we set off on a run across Europe.
Watch for lots of route and luggage fit out questions in the near future.
They build em tuff in the uk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RacingGreen]

Hey Marcos.

Always great to welcome another Sprint rider. Sounds like you had your hands full.

Enjoy your new steed - and the site.

[seumas]

Hi Marcos, welcome to the site. Sounds like yours has had a rough life, but is in good hands now. You'll find a lot of good info on here.

[pendraig]

Welcome, Marcos;
I think that, with all you've had to do, you'll have earned your PhD in Sprintology before you even get in the saddle. It's a good thing for her that she fell into your hands.

[vik]

Cool introduction , Marcos, keep up the good work.

Apparently fork seal leaks are quite common as are rear brake light switches not working.

[pendraig]

There were two set-ups for the rear brake switch. On the one with which mine was equipped, the switch was actually the banjo bolt that held the brake hose banjo to the end of the master cylinder. It was a bit pricy and, when changing it, you had to remove the whole works and risk getting dirt in the system.
The other set-up is interchangeable. The hose banjo is the same. The bolt is drilled and tapped to receive a regular old garden-variety Pep-Boys brakelight switch. Just pay your $1.99, wrench out the old switch, put in the new one, pump the pedal twice and you're back on the road