My next task with cylinder head was to prepare it for glass beads blasting. Why to bother with blasting if head is new? For one thing, 1980 KZ750 cylinder head is factory painted. The shade…
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I finished previous part of story on a minor note, so let’s make picture a bit brighter in this part. Remember those rusty camshaft cap bolts? I have a couple of sets of similar non-rusty…
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One might remember my posts about cylinder heads for Kawasaki KZ650 project. In short: my intention was to use KZ750 cylinder head of early production years, so it’d be compatible with early KZ650 timing chain…
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Kick start pedal is essential part of Kawasaki Kz650 cafe-racer project. And even as I could foresee issues of pedal compatibility with custom footpegs setup, I am about not only to keep pedal, but keep…
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When it came to gaskets, I prefer sticking to OEM ones, at least in key places like cylinder base or under cylinder head. So no wonder I’ve bought OEM cylinder gasket for KZ650 engine. Its…
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Usually rear brake caliper’ torque rod is strictly utilitarian looking thing. To make it of steel was also the simplest option, especially taking into account the fact that there is a 6mm offset between torque…
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Delays in parcel delivery sometimes happen. However this particular parcel set my personal record for waiting time. It was long before this nowadays lockdowns and flights cancellations: I bought NOS first gear for output shaft…
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I polished chain guard with my usual approach: polishing-sanding-polishing. I was not picky on the internal side; its destiny is to be covered in chain lube and grease anyway. Result looked very nice. From previous…
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For intro I couldn’t, but quote myself: If you tap “cafe racer” in google or another web search engine’ search line, you may find a lot of pictures of subject bikes without any kind of…
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