Honda-SOHC

Seriously, try the new Honda bolts they are still using to this day, started around 1980 on bikes like the 250N etc.

They do the correct sizes, meaning if the specs say 32mm then that's what you can buy, not having to fit either a 30mm or a 35mm. Plus because the head is so small they can fit where a 6mm bolt with a 10mm head can't, like the ends of the camcover. The beauty of them is you can buy a job lot off Ebay, where a breakers has broke a late Honda and you get loads of them. Plus the part number system is very easy to understand, a standard 6 x 8mm headed bolt is 96000-0603200 for instance, that's a 6 x 32mm bolt, if you want a different size just substitute the 32 part with the required length, like 96000-0610000, which would be a 100mm bolt. You can search and check if they make a specific length very easily.

You can see them on this pic I took when restoring my L reg. Fitted on the rotor cover and the camcover.



Plus, just thought of this added bonus, any bolts that face upwards, like the camcover ones, don't get flooded with water etc when it rains, this then rusts the edges of the socket hole causing them to fail when you try to remove the bolt. They don't hold dirt the same way and are easier to clean as it's a solid surface with no cavities.

Sod that, I say we have a public castration for Roo.

What happened to the guide line of 10% accuracy in speedos, the Police always used to say we allow 10% so you should have been ok up to 77mph.

I bought a batch of condensers from Andy Cepok, he advertised them as genuine but they were not in genuine blister packs like they used to be. I also bought quite a few sets of genuine points, in blister packs, and then what did I do, yep bought a Hondaman kit so I'll never get to use them as points will last and last.

As for the oven, I did my first cure in the oven the other day, I'm trying a complete restoration and renovation of a starter motor, completely in bits. They do get damaged a lot for some reason. Anyway the end caps had been sprayed in that Simoniz silver everyone's using for cases, so I thought I'd cure them, just in case. Did this before the missus came home, yes there were some fumes but when the missus came in and commented on the smell I said the oven was such a disgrace I decided to put it on a cleaning cycle where it heats up to it's hottest and burns all the old crud off the liners and that's what the smell was. She thanked me for being so thoughtful.

See, that's how you do it. You do need an oven with those liners though and a cleaning cycle.

Yes you do need to lever it on, it won't go on by hand.

Are you 100% sure the camchain tensioner is located in the bottom slot in the crankcase?

Are you sure the cam goes behind the guide and not in front of it?

I've never personally had any problems getting a sprocket on, even with a brand new chain.

technically the golds are really a lighter brown in colour spectrum

Wash your mouth out with soap and water 

How very dare you!!!!!!!!