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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #210 on: March 18, 2016, 07:32:36 AM »
Just bought this off ebay NOS Genuine... He has another one if anyone needs one .. half DS price for Genuine

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB500K-CB550K-CB500F-CB550K-14520-323-000-cam-chain-guide-tensioner-/231879910062?hash=item35fd1ea2ae:g:-8oAAOSw~OVWwgqV
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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #211 on: March 20, 2016, 12:23:25 PM »
I foolishly tried to remove the front brake caliper bleed nipple without applying any heat, when I first stripped the bike and it sheared off flush with the alloy caliper housing   :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[  plus the piston was stuck solid  and I couldn't get it out. I MIG welded a blob onto the top of the remains of the nipple and then gradually built up the weld to a bigger blob then clamped the blob in a vice and it came out no problem. I used this method on a broken off crankcase stud on my 750. I made up an crude adapter to apply up to 160 bar water pressure using a test rig at work but someone had nicked the power supply that runs it,  so I just heated up the body of the caliper with a MAP gas burner and whacked the caliper onto a flat steel plate and the inertia of the piston freed/ moved it out. I then clamped a tool clamp on the insides of the piston bore and pulled the piston out. Like ever other Honda brake caliper  piston I have ever removed from a bike left for  yonks, the piston is  badly pitted and need replacing along with the seal but the caliper body is fine.

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“Alright friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music. Believe me, yeah. It’s a new dawn.” Grace Slick, Woodstock '69 .. In the year of the Sandcast.

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #212 on: March 20, 2016, 02:01:33 PM »
Nice result in the end Ash...

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #213 on: March 20, 2016, 02:28:22 PM »
Dont tell anybody Ash but i have had to re fit worse than that for customers who insisted, but only on those i didn't like

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #214 on: March 21, 2016, 06:08:06 PM »
I got an f1 caliper that needs the same treatment, i will give it a go

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #215 on: March 28, 2016, 10:06:48 AM »
A few years I spotted a Candy Green tank in a real Honda aficionados garage when I was looking at his sandcasts and I though wow , one of these days I am going to get  a 500 in that colour and that's what Menno is painting my set with (it's it's original colour anyway) But looking at James's Gold 500K0 I really like that too. The tank that Menno is painting is a spare one I got with bike 'cos the original one was absolutely disgusting inside. However, over the last week, I stripped the original tank and I bunged two tubs of caustic soda from the pound shop in it and a kettle full of boiling water . Fk me it was like something from a Frankenstein movie with all the heat,  hissing and gurgling but turns out the tank had been lined and my 'brew' stripped it out ...it looked like a load of seaweed when I pulled it out. that tank now looks  the most dent free tank I have ever seen for a 45 year old bike. Think I might get it painted as a spare in Gold by Menno once I have got my resto's done then I can swap over as the mood takes me.  Still love the green though. Funnily enough, the earliest model I know of from Honda with candy paint is the 1967 SS125A but the candy paint was on the frame, not the tank etc !

No before pics but ask James what that tank looked like inside pre-treating it.  ;D

A nice easy one for you Menno when you get it to do (I would think in the Autumn)

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« Last Edit: March 28, 2016, 10:08:43 AM by AshimotoK0 »
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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #216 on: March 28, 2016, 10:08:15 AM »
Holy shit balls. I want it back ha ha !

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1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #217 on: March 28, 2016, 10:23:10 AM »
What did you use to strip the exterior?

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #218 on: March 28, 2016, 11:00:20 AM »
What did you use to strip the exterior?


Its the stuff in the larger tin James ... 20 quid at autojumble knocked down from £25. I said to the woman selling it ..how do I know it will work OK and she replied " I will guarantee it  works great , as I sold a tin to my daughter,  that  she 'treated' her ex husband's car with to get back at him for being unfaithful". Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all that !

The stuff in the 1 litre can is just as good but around 7 quid at autojumbles. All Methylene chloride based.

Seaweed stuff is out of the tank !

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #219 on: April 09, 2016, 07:42:55 PM »
When I was at school I had a Saturday job at a supermarket (saved up 15 quid to buy my 1st bike a Honda C200 (all frame no engine) ) and the old warehouse guy there detested, as he called it 'double handling' (doing a job twice). Had a bit of de-javu when I opened my shed up to find Keith on here his K7 shocks and found that the two CB250/350 frames I cleaned up last year were corroding badly. So rigged up a tent around the end of the bead blaster to extend it  and had to clean them up again. Plus made myself a rear shock compressor tool. So no progress on the 500K0 I am afraid. I blame the corrosion on the b*stard crabby Polycell paint stripper (the funny smelling white stuff ... thats shite).

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #220 on: April 15, 2016, 11:16:14 PM »
Got my CB500/4 K0 paint set back from Menno today in Candy Jet Green .. Superb job ..certainly comes highly recommended from me as well as James. Price very competitive with my man in the UK .. in actual fact almost exactly the same and both do a superb job and both guys are great to deal with. Menno definitely has the edge on turnaround though.

Got a second tank/panel  set I am going to have done in Gold as a 'second set of clothes' probably have it done back end of this year.

Now have most of the BZP parts back looking cool and both rims rechromed in Leeds (see separate post) . Got some NOS Genuine piston rings via eBay ... forum member too ! Want to keep the momentum up on this bike to get it finished ASAP. Not going to be any progress for a week though as I have a big work related job to do . BOO HOO   :'( :'(
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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #221 on: April 16, 2016, 08:53:28 AM »
Nice one ash, i have a bodywork set to do as soon as i get the spare cash i will send off to meno, might give your chrome guy some stuff as well, its all about money with theses bloody bikes, mine have skint me,
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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #222 on: May 22, 2016, 08:35:23 PM »
Too many  weekends away,  plus stripping my CD125A to get it's parts in the resto queue has stalled a bit but determined to get this bike done this summer.

I restored the original drilled disc so I could do a swapsie with my mate in York for his disc from his ex- DK 3k miler 500K1 that he's going to sprint at the IOM. Both have got zero scoring so we are mutually happy with the deal.

He's also agreed to swap my new front guard stays for his but I need the rubber grommets and steel spacer washers (any condition as I can re-plate),  if anyone has any to sell me to convert from 750 style to his 500 (see pic).

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« Last Edit: May 22, 2016, 08:46:47 PM by AshimotoK0 »
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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #223 on: May 22, 2016, 09:19:43 PM »
Ash, you looking to source the stay spacers / grommets to give to him. You won't need them on your K0 as it has the smaller 8mm holes?

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Re: 1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
« Reply #224 on: May 22, 2016, 09:23:09 PM »
I am a little confused about the stays  :-\
750 and 500K0 are 8mm holes in the stays, no rubbers or spacers. Just a bolt and washer ;)
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