Honda-SOHC

It doesn't look long ke a carb part Roo, well not OEM anyway but does it have a thread on it? I'm just thinking maybe someone at some stage has taken the lifter spindle out  and to do that you have to drill the locating dowl out. Of course it then has to be replaced! I've done this a couple of times in the past and used either a roll pin ground to length or in the case of Ratty I used a grub screw turned down on the lathe at the end to give a suitable locating 'register' into the spindle groove (as as previously suggested by Ken to someone else). Anyway, could it be that, is the spindle dowl missing?

Putoline do that wax in an aerosol Ted, anti fling it’s called and sticks like buggery. I use it on the VFR, none in stock in the shed currently as I’m using up some free stuff I got with a CSK kit but I’ll be buying some more it’s ace

Any chain lube will do as long, quite rightly put, you don’t end up with it everywhere and all over the bike.

There are several tins that you warm up in a pan of hot water which you bob the chain in, mostly in the motor cross shops, it’s a staple for them.

Really good stuff and well worth the dosh mate


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I’m just servicing some carbs for a pal as they’re gritty and a bit nasty although look clean. Upon disassembly this fell out of them. I don’t recognise it and can’t find it in a diagram and don’t actually think it goes with this set!
Anybody recognise it at all?

It’s concave one way and pointy on the other, looks a bit lite the top of the ‘T’s that sit in the lifters but obviously isn’t and I simply can’t place it.

Any idea anyone?


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I can't make it this year,

But if it happens next year

A definite possibility

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OK John. We'll do it again for sure, if people want it. 👍

I’ve started to connect things back up on my 360 and I thought that I had taken plenty of notes and pictures but I am a little stumped as I actually didn’t take enough.

In the wire cluster that sits by the fuel tank, I have one spare wire, there doesn’t seem to be anywhere for it to connect?

I also have two spare wires branching off the main harness near the front off the bike.

I’ve looked at what needs to go back on the bike and I can’t see what these wires would be for, could they be spares and not used? I find it strange that I didn’t get a picture or note it down somewhere but this is my first ever attempt and I have no experience so could easily have missed it, any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve had a good look at the pics that I did take and it does look as though the two wires from the harness could be unused, I can just see one poking through that could be it and it does look a bit weathered, as if it maybe wasn’t connected and covered?

Maybe I didn’t notice the one in the cluster if I started unplugging wires it could have gone unnoticed?

It’s a 1974 with front drum brake if that makes any difference.

Any thoughts???