With the starter clutch repacked there was nothing to stop me from finishing the Kawasaki KZ650 engine assembling. Workbench was ready for another (mostly final) stage of the process. To drive the secondary shaft in…
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Those of my readers who wondered why I didn’t install the secondary shaft right after I put halves of the engine together may find an explanation of this fact in this post. The reason was…
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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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And here is the final part of the story about the first two cafe-racer kits for Kawasaki Zephyr 550. It took much longer than I expected to develop the kit and settle all matters of…
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