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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.
Dev Tour Exhaust – Polished not Chromed, originally uploaded by Barry P Smyth.
After 2 minutes on the polishing wheel, quite amazing.
Dev Tour Exhaust – Polished not Chromed, originally uploaded by Barry P Smyth.
Before spending 2 minutes on the buffer!
Dev Tour Exhaust – Polished not Chromed, originally uploaded by Barry P Smyth.
I had posted a question on the Lambretta Club of Australia Forum about what to do with my Dev Tour Exhaust, when it arrived from the UK it came looking very rough indeed. The burn marks on each of the welds really stick out for me and I was not very happy about it, particularly when you see some really sparkling exhausts on Lambretta’s these days, plus it looked a lot shinier on the web site that I bought it from.
Anyway, the general consensus from the local enthusiasts was to polish it. I looked into doing this myself to save a few bucks but in the end I was up for three types of polishing compound, and extra polishing wheel for my angle grinder, so it made more sense to give it to an expert.
A few phone calls later and the exhaust was dropped off to Derek at TigMig in Brookvale for some initial testing to see if this would work & boy did it.
You can clearly see the results of 1 minute on the buffing wheel this below, the weld in the middle of the shot was on the buffing wheel for no more than a minute and you can see what it looked like based on the weld on the top right of the picture.
The other two shots are a before and after of the worst effected burn marks, came up a treat.
Needless to say I left it with him to finish off the whole exhaust.
Compared to this!
Looks brand new.
This is a shot of the crakshaft housing before vapour blasting, you can see how filthy it is.
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