Fred´s 34L

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Fred333
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Fred´s 34L

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Hi everyone!
This is gonna be a thread about my 34L.
It´s not getting restaurated as it is my allday-bike.
But every now and then I will ad some "modification" along the way.
Useful or not may be discussed here.
This how she looked like when I got her home:
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As you can see: Everything was worn to the limit and some TLC was necessary.
Fred
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Re: Fred´s 34L

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Imediatly after bringing her home I changed the tank and seat as I had better parts in my shed.
And I took off the lugage racks:
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Much better!!
Then I walked around the bike and made a list what had to be bought:
Chainkit
Oil + filter
Airfilter
Sparkplug
Brakeshoes front and rear
Brakeliquid
Battery
I got everything from Kedo.
The tires and tubes (Heidenau K 60 are my favourites) I ordered online.
The bike was about 1000 Euro
The parts were about 500 Euro
TÜV and registration about 100 Euro
So I ended with 1600 Euro for a Tenere on the road! I think it´s worth it.
Till now to no regret...
I love the bike! She is very stable at speeds. Comfy seat, long range, nice sound...
And I love to wrench on her.
The XT-family makes it very easy to make the bike suit to my needs.
Fred
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Re: Fred´s 34L

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Things to come:
Plan A:
Get an oiltank from the XT 600 43F for the better oilline.
in that process get rid of the oilcooler (I´m not going to the desert)
TT chokeknob for less parts to go wrong
Plan B:
New bearings for the steering
New oil for the fork
New gaiters ( Got them anyway. I bought them for my TT... but they were to short)
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Re: Fred´s 34L

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Plan A:
On Ebay I found a very cheap (15 Euro) oiltank with oillines for the 43F.
I knew (thanks to Mezo) that the oilfeedingline leaves the oiltank at a far better/safer location than on the 34L-tank.
The tank came ... and wasn´t in a good state. One eye for the attachment on the frame was broken and the other was heaviliy
soldered/repaired:
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but at least I had some good oillines...
After a while I found another oiltank. It was the one Mezo had shown in is "better oiltank"- discussion.
It was also cheap ...
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... but in better shape (as you can see !)
The tank had some homemade modifications on it:
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A temperature sensor.
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And a oillevel- indicator.
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So I started to disasemble the bike in order to change the oiltank, lines and oilcooler...
This is what I found:
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Here should be the Oilfeedingline coming out.
I looked under the tank... and saw this:
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... somebody changed the tank already...grmmmph. (Or has the 34L built in ´84 the 43F tank ? Karl ??!!!)
So I ripped off the oilcooler and changed the upper oilline and was done:
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Make shure you are holding the joint while unscrew the oilline. This way you don´t stress the tin/soldering to much.

And this is what I saw:
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The carbi !!! Here he is !!
Next project:
TT Chokeknob
Fred
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Fred´s 34L

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I can harldy see any details with them shots fred, to dark.

Take it all off, clean it back to bare metal, buy a speedlight for the camera & start again. :grin:

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Re: Fred´s 34L

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Oh really? On my monitor everything is fine.
When your box will be packed I stuff them tanks into it and you can take off the paint yourself.
I think I´m fine with the tanksituation on my bike.
:shades:
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Must admit it looks better on the PC than the iphone Fred. :bag:

Are you not going to use that tank then Fred? how did they fix them parts? was it welded or brazed on?

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Re: Fred´s 34L

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No, I really mean it. You can have it.
The parts are brazed on.
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Re: Fred´s 34L

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Fred333 wrote:No, I really mean it. You can have it.
Cheers Fred. :biggrin:

I thought you got it for a project for yourself, that`s good because we can sandblast that & copy it on the others. :evil:

Nice one mate. :beer:

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Re: Fred´s 34L

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Fred
Your title should have said Fred´s 50´T.
Look on your swingarm.......the tensioner is a exterior one.....so if all on the bike is first hand should be a 50T.Also the oiltank.Only the 1983 model had the oil feed up on the exterior wall.
I even dare to say your bike is danish/swedish import.Look the rear guard extension slywink: Also the front guard extension is present. :nordie: And telling it all the exhaust "Flöte" or flute.Not present on german models.
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