Stuff
The SX 150 gearbox is now completely installed, it will drive a 46 tooth clutch & 15 tooth front sprocket with a final drive ratio of 5.56.
Gearbox all in now, just need to fix the end plate down.
So, finally back into the Li150 engine rebuild, had to remove the crank & re torque the end plate screws with my new torque wrench. All torqued up now $ crank wound back in nicely. Now back to the gearbox.
These are the first shot of the Li150′s frame, forks & headset from Spencer the spray painter, all parts were sandblasted & have been primed. the pics are from a camera phone & I will get some better ones with my camera tomorrow before he starts adding the colour.
Frame & Forks
Headset Bottom
Headset Top
This was virtually brand new, I had to scour around the interweb looking for this & eventually found a shop in London that had a NOS new old stock one left over.
Here is what they look like after the vapour honing, nice & new just like they came out of the factory in Milan 43 years ago.
Here is couple of quick videos of the engine casings being vapour honed.
This is a process that combine water & glass beads to gently clean ageing aluminium, works a treat.
Before:
This Carby is a Delorto SH2/22 and looked liked it had not been touched in years, nice & clean now though.
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