Got a break today

[Chuey]

The Cafe Racer was being worked on, in the carport. I've been having poor actuation of the brake lever. That has manifested itself in balky brake light switch actuation and the M/C rod not coming back all the way. I thought I'd have to rebuild the M/C so I started taking it off.

What I found was a big honkin' amount of corrosion cack that had inhibited the perfectly working rod from the M/C returning and meeting the brake lever where it should. YeeHaw! I cleaned it out and used silicone spray on the seal that is up in the brake lever. It now works like a champ!

The brake lever switch required the old thinking cap. After I figured out how it works, all that was needed was a washer between the switch and the brake lever body so that the switch activates sooner than it did before. It's also working perfectly now.

Then I got the gas tank out from where it had been stored and when I uncovered it, there, before my eyes was a four inch by three inch spot of blistered paint. The tank had been full and evidently the petcocks had angled the tank down enough for it to leak onto the section just in front of the cap. A bad mistake on my part, but I have a "plan B" for the paint job, so I'm not going to get worked up over it.

I'm just glad for the parts that have allowed me to fix them.

Chuey

Edit: The bike is a 1983 R100S based Cafe Racer

[Deleted User 287]

Congratulations and "oops!".

[dougie]

"parts that have allowed me to fix them."

I think that is why we love these bikes.