Finally!!
After about 4 or 5 years and the first time I have tried to get one of the 2 cars in my shed out since we built our new house - I managed to get my Bellett out.
This was my dillemma - we built our new house and I did NOT want to get rid of my 6x6m shed.
We positioned the house so there was a "driveway" down the left side of the house joining the back of our garage - we had to move the garage one bay to the left and put in a roller door at the back so I could "drive through".
When the block was surveyed I lost 1m to my neighbour as originally it was surveyed wrong - so I lost vital space to drive a car down the side of the house.
The shed doors (swing out) miss the eave by 11mm - that was close - phew.
One thing I did not foresee was the house was built on a 300mm slab so to drive through the garage I will have to pave or concrete a ramp up - I use a wood ramp to get our bikes in and out of the shed.
So with Bathurst last weekend and me finishing my custom chopper I really, really got the urge to work on a project again as I was bored.
So to stick the middle finger up at Colin Bond (pffft) I decided to get the Bellett on the road again.
I cleaned up the stuck front brakes and changed the oil and filter, mounted an electric fuel pump and new spark plugs (see I do still love it) and true to the toughness of the little beast - it fired up second go after sitting for years.
I gave it a scrub and chamois and will need to bleed the brakes with some help from the my sife Bernie.
I am really stoked to get it back on the road.
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but this time use dot 5 silicon fluid - so I need to redo all the seals in the system. does anyone have seal kit numbers or new old stock wheel and master cylinders. I really am keen in getting some good stopping power - Stinky never had good anchors EVER.
