Garage Night

The old 3 legged dog – the 1974 CB125 is sold. We got $610 for it on ebay.  Taking out the $50 fee that ebay charges these days, that leaves us with $560.  Not too bad at all.

Still more faffing around the the caliper.  I decided to hit it with a grinder to try and ‘free up’ the easy out.  That didn’t work.  I then decided to try and hit it with a centre punch and drill again.  After a few good wacks, the easy moved down slightly.  Encouraged by this, I got a nail punch and belted it with all my might.  The easy out moved down about 2mm, and i tried to get a screw driver in there to get the bleeder screw out.  This didn’t work, so I hit it with the punch again.  Then the unthinkable happened.  I broke the tip of the punch inside the bleeder screw.

So we now have a caliper with a broken bleeder screw, with a broken easy out AND a broken nail punch inside it.  How are we doing?

Ona positive, we have a nice set of rubber fork gaiters from ebay;

I lashed out and bought an expensive easy out from total tools.  The bloke assured me it was the best you could get.

So, after about half an hour of twisting and cursing, the easy out finally ‘bites’ into whats left of the bleeder screw.  The things is in there nice and tight, and then the unthinkable happens.  The easy out snaps off – leaving part of it inside the bleeder screw.  Oh crap.

Short on ideas, we move onto the CB125.  We have christened the bike “3 leg” because it’s alike an old 3 legged dog.  Pretty useless, but you love it anyway.  We treat old 3 leg to a new battery (6 volt) and gear shifter.  We also have the magneto cover (the bloke we bought it off came through).

The bike starts easily, and we have a quick ride up and down the street.  After a few goes – the bike coughs, stutters and stops.  We push it back into the garage, and decide it’s just a fuel issue.  We clean out the carby, and replace the fuel in the tank with fresh stuff.  The old 3 legged dog live on.