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So if it has the original caps, (were they metal?, maybe someone can confirm) then yes DR8ES. Very rare to see any SOHC these days with those old metal caps, i thought everyone had ditched them years ago as they were rubbish.
Quote from: Nurse Julie on January 03, 2019, 07:02:05 PMSo if it has the original caps, (were they metal?, maybe someone can confirm) then yes DR8ES. Very rare to see any SOHC these days with those old metal caps, i thought everyone had ditched them years ago as they were rubbish.I understood the metal caps were on the later UK bikes, but I may be wrong - these are plastic, which I understand were original to the US bikes.
Quote from: Andrew-S on January 03, 2019, 07:06:20 PMQuote from: Nurse Julie on January 03, 2019, 07:02:05 PMSo if it has the original caps, (were they metal?, maybe someone can confirm) then yes DR8ES. Very rare to see any SOHC these days with those old metal caps, i thought everyone had ditched them years ago as they were rubbish.I understood the metal caps were on the later UK bikes, but I may be wrong - these are plastic, which I understand were original to the US bikes.You're most probably right Andrew. We only have UK SOHC's so i should have guessed it may have been another one of those anomalies. So, are the black caps you have fitted resisted or non resisted? Just interested to know.
Well, it feels like I haven't stopped working on the K1 since I collected it on Fri 21 Dec - Christmas and New Year just seemed to come and go.......So far, I've put about 20+ hours into cleaning it and it's coming up nicely - over the last few days I've been preparing the K1 for starting, as in:Dropped the air filter and found a nice new K&NPulled the float bowls expecting the worse from standing for 3 years, but they were nice and shiny - result.Oiled and freed off the throttle cables - now snaps shut with a vengeance! Split the switchgear and cleaned the contact surfaces, so now got a nice smooth actionAdjusted the cam chainOiled the cam and running upper running gear as it was pretty dry - also dropped some oil down the bores just in casePulled the plugs (what a pig 2 & 3 were!) and changed them - the old ones were an even mid-light brown, so happy with that Did a compression test but my gauge (Draper) has a fixed tube and reader so could't get it in to do No2 & 3 - No1 & 4 read 150, so hopefully that's indicative of the other two...........? Dumped the oil and there were no shiny bits in my wife's kitchen sieve (note to self: buy her a new one!), so pretty confident there's nothing nasty going on inside.My service kit arrived today from DS, including a new battery, plugs and oil, filter etc so the battery is currently on charge and I plan to flush the engine through tomorrow, change the oil and filter, rig up a remote tank and try to fire the old girl up - I'll see where I go from there - fingers crossed. Cheers
That's what i thought with one of my old Hondas. It had DR8ES fitted, so i replaced them with DR8ES's and then found out it had resisted caps. It caused me no end of agro until i fitted the D8ES's.
As part of a major service on a 750, Honda recommend that the sump pan be removed and the oil strainer cleaned