Project CB350F

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

The before & after photos of the electrics behind the side panel look inpressive - all those now homeless Arachnids good work!

[magpie114]

The before & after photos of the electrics behind the side panel look inpressive - all those now homeless Arachnids good work!

Just spotted a mistake though, I’ve fitted the black regulator cover the wrong way!


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[magpie114]

Finally got the cylinder head and cover installed and valve clearances set. Unfortunately when I initially started to fit the head I found the original cylinder/head dowels were slightly deformed and far too tight in the cylinder as I tried to fit them. I’d forgotten that one of them in particular took an awful lot of effort to remove during disassembly and so I had to send for new cylinder/head dowels. Better to do it right but it was a frustrating wait. I now need to cleanup and polish the tappet and crankcase caps, can’t say that I’m looking forward to that job!

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I think I’ve got the harness routing figured out and I now need to decide whether to try and fix the original coils (Ashe's fix) or replace with after market versions - not sure which way to go yet. The chrome on the horn is fairly good and doesn’t need replating so I’ve assembled that with the ignition switch and bracket (thanks Ian) in place of the handlebar mount that came with the bike. The left hand handlebar switch has cleaned up ok but the right hand switch has beat me so I’ve ordered an aftermarket version from DSS.

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Phil at Full Circle Wheel Building emailed this morning to say that he would build the rear wheel tomorrow morning and hopefully I’ll get that back on Friday.

[Laverda Dave]

Excellent progress.
I sympathise with you about all the last minute hold ups though. I went to fit the rear shocks on my 400/4 yesterday in readiness to lift the frame over the completed engine only to find the 10mm threads in the lower shock mounts are 1.25 pitch and normal 10mm 1.5 pitch thread are obviously too big! Trying to find stainless 10mm bolts with 1.25 pitch was a pia. I found some in the end but they were £7.28 EACH! And I thought Honda bolts were expensive!
Good luck with the rear wheel, once in at least you will be able to move it around👍.

[Bryanj]

Standard stainless not a good idea in high stress positions

[Laverda Dave]

Standard stainless not a good idea in high stress positions

Good point Bryan. I'll get some Honda items from HGB. I'll frame the two stainless ones considering they were so expensive.

[magpie114]

The rear mudguard, grab rail and some fittings have gone to Ashford Chroming who have quoted an 8 week turnaround which isn't too bad. Can't make my mind up whether to have the front mudguard replated as well or get an aftermarket replacement as it’s probably going to be more cost effective. However I’m not convinced that the aftermarket items will be to the same standard as a replated original mudguard.

My rear wheel arrived on Friday from Full Circle Wheel Building and I’ve put a K82 on, just waiting for the sprocket and brake plates which are at the powder coaters.

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I’ve turned my attention to the electrics and I’ve started “Ashes fix” on the coils which are in good condition although the HT leads were in a terrible state. As mentioned in the procedure the outer insulation of each HT lead was hard and two of the inner conductors had broken. The coils cleaned up well and the leads were exposed in no time at all using a rasp. Now I know that the coils are good I’ll go ahead and order some epoxy from RS.

[Johnny4428]

Worthwhile job on the coils! Having done three sets of coils now I had a couple of leads that just fell out of the ends of the moulding. Interesting how the lower coil in your pic the ht lead snakes in a s formation, must have been the end of a roll before moulding applied during moulding process?

[magpie114]

I think you’re right. It’s not obvious in the photo but the lead was in a very shallow spiral path.


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