This year’s September is unexpectedly cold. Ever-changing weather sometimes results in spectacular sky scenes. One of them was this singular bright fragment of the rainbow next to heavy clouds ready to burst with rain. The…
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I was selecting photos for the next part of the Kawasaki KZ650 engine assembling story when I came across the pictures you may see below. I mostly forgot about them as I took them occasionally. …
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And here is a post about Kawasaki KZ650 valve timing adjustment. The procedure of camshaft installation and valve timing itself is clearly described in the Factory Service Manual and there is nothing that I could…
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If some time ago someone told me that I am about to build a bike with tires like a Firestone Champion Deluxe, I would laugh in his/her face. The thing about these tires is that…
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With the cylinder head in place my next tasks were camshafts installation and timing adjustment. I bought a Kawasaki Zephyr 750 camshafts for the KZ650 project. They are mostly identical to KZ750 camshafts and have…
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With piston bases and piston ring compressors it was a matter of minutes to get cylinders installed. I spent more time on photo shooting than on installation itself. I oiled bores because I could not…
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