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All the fun of a late nights fork oil and seal change. This garage is great.

New lid!

The lovely, lovely, lovely Jax helped me buy a new lid over the weekend. Thanks hun. X

Reserve Tank mod.

Looks good doesn't it. Lol

The wheels on the bike...

Are no longer round, just look at that dent. Something else to fix as it looks like i have found more damage from the pot hole i hit.

Christmas'ing up the bike.

Trying for the festive touch this year with the SV as you can see. Still a few more things to do. So thanks to Lissa and Pete for tin part donations, and thanks to Jax for your help at the weekend.

Swapping a loom.

Not a job that I had been looking forward to this, but something I had to get done as the electrics on this bike where just getting worse and worse. Only the week before I went to get to work and found that the battery was dead as the bike wasn't getting enough charge due to the 'corroded' charging circuit. This was also affecting my lights and indicators with bulb's blowing, lights dimming, and everything flashing when I indicated.
So it had to be fixed, a big job, as all the plastics and tank need to come off to get everything out. As you can see by the first and second photos, which in reality took the longest amount of time.
I put the new loom in and got the bike going, but had a few small problem with he rad fan constantly going. Sorted this all out but then I think I shorted something, and in further discoveries today after not having the bike for a week I think I have found the problem. A dead signal generator, this with the help of Alternator control the timing of the spare to the spark plugs. So with out this I have not ignition.

Odometer of the beast

My SV I call Helga has finally made it, sixty six thousand six hundred and sixty six miles.

Whiney Clutch

On the way to work I noticed that my clutch basket whine was getting audible over my exhaust noise, which is rather impressive considering I have a un-baffled can at the moment (its on loan). I carried on to work but I was getting little worried, but so put it down to the low oil and purchased some more at lunch time. This was not the case as I could still hear the noise from the bike, and it was clearly coming from the basket.
So after much umming and erring I took the cover off, cap off again and had a look, noticing what looked like a grove in the cover on its inside. Time to take the cover off, to which I found the damage to the right, clear groves out of the plastic cover. Got job it is plastic to, else it could have been much worse.
Turns out that the problem is one of the clutch springs had worked is way loose and was in the process of rubbing my clutch cover away, so after a good tighten I got it back together again. Surprisingly enough the noise was gone!

Flipped bike Hidden damage

As you might have read I flipped my bike a little while ago. It's been said the bike 'Helga' got off rather lightly. Well it appears I found a little bit of hidden damage...

No headlights

On the way out for a little bimble I joined the M25, and noticed it was a touch darker then I remembered. So I pulled over, to realise that I had no headlights, not one gone but both, and the parking light too.
So, what to do?
On the side of the M25 I start pulling the bike apart, first checking the fuses, which are all fine. Tried whacking the front of the bike, but this does nothing, so panels off time. After a little fiddling I get the lights back, but the not the parking light, odd. So after a quick chat with the Motorway Patrol man, I put the bike back together and get going again, and pull off at the next junction. As I was heading down this dark road the light flicker off a few more times, so I bail for home, hoping not to end up anywhere to dark.
On the journey home the bike stalls and will only start with the lights off, rather odd.

So in all I suspect iffy connection block on the right hand side again, with the bad light I couldn't get a good look, but I have put the panels back on with only 2 bolts now for quick removal.

But I think I will be adding in a additional bit of wiring over the weekend, though I'm worried now that the loom could be rotted I might have circuit leak to.