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Out & About / Re: OUT AND ABOUT 2024

« on: Today at 02:48:32 PM »

Been out to Blackheath with it's fabled Tea hut in south London. Not many bikes about today but the object of the journey was a paint drying run, I've given the engine a bit of a makeover. More work pending!

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Out & About / Re: OUT AND ABOUT 2024

« on: Today at 02:40:14 PM »

Interesting post! I can't help wondering how do they preserve a fish to go on the wall, they haven't got a pelt or something like other animals.

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Out & About / Re: OUT AND ABOUT 2024

« on: Today at 12:18:28 PM »

Now pour it into the petrol for super performance!

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CB350/400 / Re: Anyone recognise this bit?

« on: May 09, 2024, 09:38:12 PM »

For a moment I wondered if it might be a valve stem oil seal and how on earth did it get there, but no.

Actually I think it may end up being a foreign body, not off the bike?

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What is it? / Re: Mysterious Exhaust Teeth

« on: May 08, 2024, 08:12:59 PM »

Quote from: Bryanj on May 08, 2024, 06:33:54 PM

A lot of the time the old copper outer exhaust gaskets set like dark concrete and look like part of the head taking severe prodding and levering to remove, many times i have found 2 gaskets in the hole!

I had to a lot of probing and exploring to satisfy myself nothing lurked in the holes, and that the cheapskate in the past had not replaced them! I hope I got it right.

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CB350/400 / Exhaust studs issue

« on: May 08, 2024, 06:49:27 PM »

I thought the lengthy rust prone exhaust studs 'on the 400/4' were a buzzing fly and plain got on with it. But seeing the genuine ones on the DSS site I realise I've detected what might be another home made part some bum down the owners list added. The rear brake rod and speedo cable grommet on the front fender are other homemade things I inherited from this bodger.

These things are 2 1/3 inches long, does anyone know the length of originals?
I'll get a set somewhere along the line but at £55.00 a full set it will have to wait a month or two, other priorities first, I might take the trouble to cut these back a bit for now (maybe $:-\$ )

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What is it? / Re: Mysterious Exhaust Teeth

« on: May 08, 2024, 04:02:13 PM »

Quote from: Nurse Julie on May 08, 2024, 02:47:20 PM

No, they'll be fine George as the clamp down into the copper exhaust gaskets

Thanks Julie, point seen. Those exhaust gaskets though were one of the things that were missing when I first got Elen six years back, the teeth weren't missing like most of mine though!

It took me a lot of finding out, as was the case with the starter clutch you told me I needed to get as well.

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What is it? / Re: Mysterious Exhaust Teeth

« on: May 08, 2024, 02:37:20 PM »

But can it bother performance, compression et al? $:-\$

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What is it? / Mysterious Exhaust Teeth

« on: May 08, 2024, 11:32:45 AM »

On four of my eight exhaust collars (CB400F) I have these teeth

in the past I plain put them in the way they came out and thought nothing of it, however in recent months (many) it hasn't been me who put the exhaust system back on so I went to the CMSL site to see if that would help but they didn't exist there. By now I'm taking a closer look at them and they aren't exactly uniform, like my own damn teeth even. It must be some kind of damage or mod by a PO. Can anyone shine any light on this

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Misc / Open / Speedo speaking with forked tongue

« on: May 07, 2024, 02:25:38 PM »

As I approach 20mph and onto 30mph my speedo starts wagging within about a 5mph field, enough to cost a lot of money in London today. What might be wrong, is this something Gauge Restorers could fix? $:-\$

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