Honda-SOHC

I've finished the engine and everything is ready for engine in tomorrow. The only way to do it is to lay the engine on its side and thread the frame downwards over it installing the engine plates and bolts as you go. I'll pop a couple of photos up when it's in.

I'm generally in good shape with bits that I need for completion but may need to get some help in rewiring the loom, it was in terrible state and I did some minor damage getting it all freed and off the bike which was badly corroded..

I'm probably going to buy Boyer or should I say Micro-Digital, these are recently priced and don't use the existing advance unit.

They need to use Micro Digital coils if the impedance of the existing coils isn't OK. Can anybody confirm if the existing CB500 K1 coils are OK in this respect

Quote from: masonmart on June 03, 2016, 03:47:49 PM

Any ideas on where I may be able to get hold of a pair of straight ones or does anybody have a pair to sell.

For less than the price of replacement stanchions, Philpotts in Luton can straighten and re-chrome including collection and delivery. I've had 2 sets of stanchions re/chromed and they're very good. Check them out www.pittedforks.co.uk
Peter


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Peter, many thanks for the link and it looks good. CMSNL have stanchions for around £85 delivered and given all uncertainties I've gone this route.

Today I unpacked the frame, swinging arm, forks and engine plates and bolts ready for assembly to make sure that I have all of the bits.



I stripped the forks down to check the internals and polish the bottom halves and guess what? Yes, the stanchions are bent and pitted in the area that will pass through the seals. Never mind, new OEM stanchions are only £200 each plus P&P. Any ideas on where I may be able to get hold of a pair of straight ones or does anybody have a pair to sell.



These are the hubs, black to look good with polished alloy rims. Sat for 2 hours polishing the rims, hard work.



Dresda lightweight frame, tiny thing.



Dresda swinging arm with the engine plates which I managed to get reasonably well polished. I'm 2 engine bolts short but will make them next week.

Very disappointing day because of the forks but a case of I get knocked down but I get up again. Sounds like a good title for a song if somebody hadn't already done it.

Well, after two back to square ones because of poor preparation 9by me) the engine is done. Hope to wrap the frame around it next week and assemble all of the cycle parts which are now coated

Very nice bike

The CB500 that I'm working on has a big bore kit fitted. Have just put the gasket in place, set on the barrels and then put on the cylinder head. Horror! the gasket between the crank case and barrels had split and the ends were sticking out. My guess is that the gasket was a CB500 (I bought the gasket based on the bottom end) and the barrels are of a 550 because you can't otherwise bore them out for the big bore kit.

Could there be any other reasons for this to happen?

To say that the DSS units are crap is a bit of a sweeping statement without saying why. I guess that the main reason is that they use the existing advance and retard?

Just another question. How much improvement does EI make over points? For an engine that hasn't run for 40 years and has just been rebuilt may it be better running it initially on points?