Rauta ja Petrooli 2019 - 31st of August - Riihimäki, Finland

This was my first time to visit Rauta ja Petrooli (eng. Iron and Petroleum), a gathering meant for old machines, held in exhibition park of Riihimäki. This year's theme was Ferguson and Massey Ferguson. Ferguson was most popular and common tractor brand in Finland in 1950's and 1960's. Besides different tractors there were trucks, classic cars, mopeds and even vintage snow mobiles on display. Visitors who came with their own classic vehicle got access free of charge and got to be part of the exhibition. There would have probably been even more to see especially in the hobbyist car park if I would have come to visit earlier in the day as vehicles changed a lot through the day.

Fordson Super Major

Westcoast Motor Show 2019 - Part 1 - Yankee cars - 21th of September - Vaasa, Finland

Here are final photos from my trip to Vaasa and Westcoast Motor Show held in Botnia Hall three weeks ago 😊 It was a brilliant show once again with lots of cool vehicles to shoot.

Check out also my other posts from Westcoast Motor Show:

Part 2 - Classic cars
Part 3 - Tuner cars

I still have plenty of photos to go through from events I visited during summer and autumn. Also posts of my current projects are coming soon. There's been few hickups but also lots of progress regarding my GT250K build. Plenty of parts has arrived for CBR600F during last few month so that I can kick off that build too 😎

1941 Plymouth Business Coupe De Luxe

Westcoast Motor Show 2019 - Part 2 - Classic & Sport cars - 21th of September - Vaasa, Finland

Let's continue with photos of classic, sport and historic race cars from Westcoast Motor Show '19 😀 Next up to edit are yankee cars which I took most of my photos so stay tuned for those 😎

1939 Steyr 55

Westcoast Motor Show 2019 - Part 3 - Tuner cars - 21th of September - Vaasa, Finland

Yesterday I made a quick trip to Vaasa and checked out Westcoast Motor Show. Let's kick off with tuner car section of the show 😎

1965 Vauxhall Viva HA @helivuolle

Hifi & Tuning Show 2019 - Part 1/2 - 7th and 8th of September - Oulu, Finland

This year Hötsi celebrated its 18th birthday and gathered around 200 tuner cars inside Ouluhalli, a large dome hall close to the city centre of Oulu. I made a quick trip to the event on Saturday. Unfortunately parking lot was under construction so it wasn't possible to arrange a hobbyist car park outside. Luckily there was plenty to see inside. Check out how it looked 😎 Link to Part II!

Nissan 200SX Rocket Bunny @mcrazz

Hifi & Tuning Show 2019 - Part 2/2 - 7th and 8th of September - Oulu, Finland

And here are rest of my pics from Hötsi '19 😎 Check out also Part I!

Nissan 200SX S13 Rocket Bunny @juucso

1st of May Cruise 2019 @ Riihimäki, Finland

Here's punch of photos which I took from my French balcony during 1st of May cruise. A lot of nice cars turned up to drive in line through streets of Riihimäki and lots of people gathered around to see them and celebrate starting summer season 🌞

Fitted Fest '19 @ Lahti Harbour - 24th of August - Lahti, Finland

Fitted Fest is a car event hosted by car community and clothing brand CDLC.CO. This year there were around 100 cars invited to the show area located in the harbour of Lahti. Hobbyist park right next to it gathered also lots of cool cars to look at. DJ made sure that the atmosphere stayed relaxed the whole time and right before best cars in the show were rewarded music guest, a Finnish rap artist, Töölön Ketterä hopped on the stage. Check out also my photos from Meet for Connoisseurs, an earlier CDLC.CO event hosted by together with Speedhooked.

BMW E9 CSL @kihlmans_garage

'91 Honda CBR600F PC25 - Part 2 - Service for front shock absorbers

Here's a short story about how I rebuild my CBR600F front shock absorbers. Other side of them was leaking quite a lot so I decided to rebuild them with Pyramid Parts Front Suspension Overhaul Kit made for Honda CBR600 F2 F3 1991-1998 (IB11 & OB22). You can find part diagrams for '91 CBR600F for example from CMS. Here's part diagram for front fork which helped me for this small project. First step of it was to lift up the front end of the bike and to get the front shocks out.

Hoisting up front end of my bike
with Chain Block & Tackle

I tide a cargo/load strap around front end frame beams and secured it with a knot which I then attached to the chain block and tackle. Piece of wooden block helped keeping the strap away from cables running aside frame beams.

Closer look of cargo strap tide around
upper frame beams

Front brake calipers had be removed
to get front wheel out

Front fender is secured with two bolts on each side of the fork
and other one also holds brake line hose

Both of those bolts can be loosened with front wheel still in place.

After getting the front wheel off I was able to remove forks out of yokes. I started by removing securing circlips (5) from top of each fork and removing clip-ons. Each fork is secured to top and bottom yoke with two bolts (21) and (11). After getting them out forks just slide out.

Front forks are off!

First step of rebuilding them was to drain out
the old fork oil. Oil drain screw is
located below brake caliper mounts.

I used a small screw driver to remove
old dust seals...

...and circlips which secure oil seal below it.

Then I secured front shock absorber to a vise...

...and used an impact driver to get the lower tube bolt out.

After removing circlip and lower bolt tube can be separated
from stanchion just by pulling them apart.

Condition of old slide and guide bushes.

I disassembled the rest of the forks after removing the lower tube and cleaned them with brake cleaner. Springs inside the stanchion are loaded so be careful when you take out the top cap. I applied bit of pressure to them while unscrewing to stop them from flying off. They are made out of aluminum so those fine threads which keep them in place can be easily damaged if you're not careful with them. I decided to reuse old O-rings in them together with copper washers in lower tube bolts.

I used brake cleaner to clean parts of shocks.

Pyramid Parts Front Suspension Overhaul Kit for
Honda CBR600 F2 F3 1991-1998 (IB11 & OB22)

Fork oil seals

Slider and guide bushes

Stanchions rebuild with new parts.

CRC Soft Lock threadlocker...

...for securing lower tube bolts.

Since I don't own any special tools for rebuilding forks I made a washer looking thing out of nylon sheet which I placed on top of oil seal when I hammered them in with a small punch. It kept them undamaged while hammering.

Nylon washer to keep oil seal undamaged
while hammering it in with a small punch.

Circlip back on to secure oil seal.

I used a rubber mallet to gently
hammer in dust seals.

Rebuild shocks ready to be put back to the bike.

Remember to add threadlocker also to brake
caliper bolts. They can easily get loose without it.

I bought 2 litres of Belray 10W fork oil...

...and measured roughly 0,508 litres for each shock 
which was recommended by service manual.

Small funnel helped with refilling shocks with fork oil

Ready for a test drive 😎

RADALLE.com Drifting @ Ahvenisto Race Circuit - 15th of June 2019 - Hämeenlinna, Finland

Here's couple pictures from pit of Radalle.com Pro & Pro2 drifting competition held in Ahvenisto Race Circuit and Show & Shine car show. I also took plenty of video clips from the competition and uploaded few of them (#1 & #2) to my Instagram account. Have a great weekend! 😎

Nissan Silvia @finndrift