Odd post.
One may wonder why so far there was only one October post. For one thing for about two weeks I didn’t work on KZ650 project, but was preparing my garage to upcoming winter. I made…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Cylinder head. Part 2.
Remember this nice KZ750 cylinder head that made long way to me from USA through Germany? I cleaned it, I checked all I could, I found out that two from four exhaust valves were slightly…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Shopping post #9: cylinder studs & other.
Kawasaki KZ650 as well as KZ750 has 12 cylinder studs with M10 thread of following lengths: 4 studs x 153mm (part number 92004-062), 4 studs x 133mm (92004-1004) and 4 studs x 116mm (92004-1007). The …
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Rear wheel is spoked.
So, what should have happened in June happened only in September. Yesterday I finally finished rear wheel. I placed second order for Excel 18″ 2.5″ high shouldered rim as soon as I became sure that …
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Carburetors. Part 3.
I am used to buy OEM parts for our projects from USA, thus when I decided to order new carburetors’ manifolds I found that only right carb holders are currently available. After some thinking I…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Carburetors. Part 2.
So carburetors’ bodies were cleaned. And so were all other components, like heat shield. Float bowls’ gaskets gave me a bit of work as they were glued to bowls from factory and after mostly forty…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Carburetors. Part 1.
This post, be it put in one part, would contain about forty photos. So I am to cut it in two. The question of KZ650 carburetors is quite extensive. One may catch a serious case…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Clutch basket dampers.
It’s well known, that clutch baskets of Kawasaki KZ650/KZ750, as well as that of Zephyr 750 are equipped with rubber dampers. These rubbers shrink and even crumble after a long time of exploitation, therefore cease…
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Some garage skies photo.
Continuation of traditional posts: another photo of skies-over-garages. Shot it occasionally after I took a look at the skies and couldn’t resist the desire to take the camera in my hands.