Unknown petrol tank, please help

[Trigger]

It's not me tinkering you need to worry about Trig, it's when I've put it all back together and got loads of bits left over, that when you need to start panicking 

You did not work for British Rail in the past. Took on a British Rail engineer some years ago. He built a engine and said, "look what i have saved". Looking at a load of parts still on the bench. He only lasted the day.

[dieffe]

I have added a picture today 27/01/15 Bare aluminium F1 Café racer.

Nigel

I'm new here too and for some reason I can't see any picture of the tank. Am I doing something wrong?

[Nurse Julie]

Nigel posted it in the Gallery

[royhall]

Nigel
Whats the external oil feed for (if that's what it is) on the right of the bike?
Cheers Roy

[dieffe]

Ah, I see now.
Would this make it easier. 

[AshimotoK0]

It's not me tinkering you need to worry about Trig, it's when I've put it all back together and got loads of bits left over, that when you need to start panicking 

You did not work for British Rail in the past. Took on a British Rail engineer some years ago. He built a engine and said, "look what i have saved". Looking at a load of parts still on the bench. He only lasted the day.

Careful what you say there Graham,.. they can't all be like that. A British Rail Engineer restored  one of the 1st batch of UK Jan '70 CB750K0's and it has got to be one of the best restorations around !

Ash

[Trigger]

It's not me tinkering you need to worry about Trig, it's when I've put it all back together and got loads of bits left over, that when you need to start panicking 

You did not work for British Rail in the past. Took on a British Rail engineer some years ago. He built a engine and said, "look what i have saved". Looking at a load of parts still on the bench. He only lasted the day.

Careful what you say there Graham,.. they can't all be like that. A British Rail Engineer restored  one of the 1st batch of UK Jan '70 CB750K0's and it has got to be one of the best restorations around !

Ash

Was not the same guy then

[royhall]

Nigel
Whats the external oil feed for (if that's what it is) on the right of the bike?
Cheers Roy

Any ideas on the oil feed, curiosity has got me now. You can just see it on the right hand oil gallery blanking plug?

[NigelWilmshurst]

Hi nosey Julie, no I'm not the chroming man behind Groombridge's, I'm a sandblaster, any idea where my petrol tank comes from... have you ever heard of a Honda 750 F1 Sabre, just spotted it scribed into the underneath of the tank!

[SteveD CB500K0]

The Sabre was a VF750

[NigelWilmshurst]

The tank may of been a 1 off, the external oil feed was my work, after knocking out 3 camshafts in 7000 miles, the feed is taken from the oil gallery that splits the pressure between the top & bottom end, banjo bolt with a flow adjuster, that splits into 2 then 4 pipes, drill and tap into rocker cover, brazed copper pipe then feeds oil directly onto the 4 upper cam carriers, never had a cam go since, its also got an American performance parts big bore kit on it, likes being the other side of the red line

[SteveD CB500K0]

If you Google "Honda Sabre Racer" you can see some people have cafe'd the VF750 - maybe this was one of theirs?

[NigelWilmshurst]

Looks quite possible Steve, thanks for your help and what a brilliant forum, I take it David Silver is my best bet to get spares...

[JamesH]

Dss or cmsnl.com

[NigelWilmshurst]

Thanks Jamesh, time to spend some of my hard earnt money