Buttoning up the box!

After playing with the fuelling of my stock Z900, this month I am going to prepare and nail together the bottom-end.

Whatever cleaning has been used on an engine unit, even none, the first, and I have to be honest, fairly tedious job is to clean out all the threaded holes in all the castings. It is not one of my favourite tasks as there are so many of them, but bitter experience in the past has taught me that the failure to do this tiresome chore can lead to considerable gnashing of teeth and use of vulgar Anglo-Saxon vernacular at a later date.

I have my iPhone bluetoothed to an amp and speaker set up in my workshop so listening to podcasts makes dreary assignments far less arduous. BBC Sounds is also a good source of dramas