Back building

Finally back building after 3 weeks off with my back problem. Lost a lot of time, so I'm going to be busy in my week off before Christmas.
The snow also hampered all my deliveries, most of the stuff turned up within a couple of days of the snow stopping, was like Christmas coming early.

So this weekend consisted of Christmas shopping on Saturday and a good day down the workshop on Sunday.

Jobs completed this week:

Pedal box fitted. Spent a lot of time getting the clutch cable routing right and checked the efforts. There's been a lot of comments about how heavy the clutch is on the CBR1000, but the 08 model doesn't seem any heavier than my old R1 so I think i'll stay with the cable, rather than going to a hydraulic clutch. I hope I don't come to regret this !!!!

Next job was rebuilding the diff. I must say a big thank you to my Uncle Tony for fitting the new bearings to the diff and carriers, while I was incapacitated.
The first time I tried to set the diff clearances, I had a tight spot which was probably down to some muck between the diff and crown wheel, so I had to pull it out again and take the crown wheel off, clean it and bolt it back up. With this done, I managed to get the clearances set and bolt it all back together.
With a fresh coat of paint, its ready to go in.

Whilst I was working on the Diff, Gavin was fitting my newly acquired extinguisher. He's getting good at laying under the car drilling holes ;-). Cheers Gav.

I was considering using twin pot willwood brakes on the rear, and fabricating a handbrake mechanism off the Diff, but decided to go with the simpler route of Powerlite calipers with the handbrake cable attached, it's more expensive, but I haven't got the time to mess around anymore, and I prefer the idea of having a proper hand brake, should there be any problems with the hydraulics.
One job that was needed with fitting the Powerlite rears, was to machine down the hubs to fit inside the 240 dia discs. I managed to do this in a machine shop we use at work, they let me use one of their Lathes. A big thank you to ASE for this, and I'm sure I'll be back for more at some point.

Going to bed now, I've got a 6.10 flight to Valencia in the morning, got to get up at 3am ouch!!!