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    Shed Scrambler!

    Sep 14, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS AND PICS: ANDY TAYLOR

    bought this Kawasaki Z400 as a stop-gap, because I was so despondent having seized up my Yamaha R3.5 Special (see CMM April 2015).

    It was supposed to be a quick custom project, but I wasn’t sure on which direction I was taking it. A set of modern Triumph Scrambler exhausts appeared on eBay which I bought and I decided that if I could make them fit, that would confirm the destiny of the build – and so it started!

    The engine sounded fine with no knocks or rattles, so after I checked it over I just had to re-set the valve clearances and fit new points and condensers – nothing else needed to

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