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Messages - pauliexjr
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« on: June 05, 2014, 07:34:18 AM »
Thanks Bryan, I have found an address for the Honda "Year of manufacture" dept so I'm sending them a letter and a cheque for 30 quid this morning.
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« on: June 04, 2014, 08:51:09 AM »
Anybody know who I should contact to get a certificate of age? I've phoned Honda but the girl didn't seem to know what I was after, she promised to get someone to call me, but I've heard nothing.
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« on: May 30, 2014, 06:40:04 AM »
Well finally found the number, someone had (wait for it) carefully filled it in with body filler, sanded it off and painted over  So alarm bells ringing I found someone who would trace the reg from the frame VIN. Now the plot thickens as apparently it doesn't appear on any HPI report so it looks like the story of it being an unregistered import could be true. I now have two choices, apply to the DVLA for a Q plate or see if I can get more details and a letter from Honda confirming the date of manufacture, declare it as an import and try for an age related plate. Any one on here know how I can establish the age from the frame VIN RC04-2005995 ?
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« on: May 28, 2014, 12:49:47 PM »
Where abouts in France are you? I used to work for a French company who are based in Auch, about 70kms west of Toulouse, fabulous part of the country and great biking roads!
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« on: May 27, 2014, 01:21:21 PM »
Hi Mick,
No numbers at all on the frame, this is a 1980 bike (apparently) and the details are normally on an adhesive panel or tag on the head stock, but that appears to have been removed for powder coating.
Suspect it's a trip to the local cop shop to find out if it's actually registered on their database for any nefarious reason!
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« on: May 27, 2014, 12:40:31 PM »
I've just bought a project bike (apologies, it's a CB750 dohc) but there was no paperwork as it was advertised as a 'barn find'.
My concern is I can't find a VIN number on the frame and there are no registration plates. Is it possible to track or trace it from the engine number and if so can anyone point me in the right direction to do this?
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« on: May 11, 2012, 09:26:53 AM »
Is it possible to remove the rocker shafts on a SOHC motor to examine the cam and rockers without taking the whole top end apart? If so how please?
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« on: March 24, 2012, 07:30:25 AM »
you way up cost at start of build but always forget to double it. GOOD TIP Don't keep a log of bike spends in case the misses finds it!!!
Yep, know that feeling. I didn't like the original CB750 master cylinder for the front brakes on my cafe racer, big, clumsy (and dirty looking) plastic pot sticking up in the air. So I sourced a CBR600/900 unit off Flea-bay for £45. When I got it the lever was corroded to fek and no amount of polishing was getting it sorted, so another £18 for a new ally lever, also when I took the lever off I found the piston seals were shot as was the cap seal (reservoir filled with water ) so another £28 for the main seals and £9 for a cap seal. I also wanted to strip and polish it, Nitromors doesn't work on brake-fluid resistant paint and I don't have a compressor to blast it myself ,so off to the local bead blasters, another £12.50. Total cost for a 'cosmetic' mod? £112.50. Luckily SWMBO doesn't know about this site either!
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« on: March 14, 2012, 02:23:35 AM »
You sure you ain't got the fork legs 180o out and you're trying to fit the calipers like old Kwaks ....above the fork??
Nope, if you read my original post that's what I wondered might be the problem i.e. I was trying to fit them back to front, but the lugs are definately pointing behind (below?) the forks. The earlier single disc CB750's actually do have the caliper sitting in front of (above) the fork so I wondred if the twin disc unit should be like that, but the pictures above clearly show it isn't.
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« on: March 13, 2012, 05:02:37 PM »
Many, many thanks. Although mine are stamped L & R I've looked and they actually fit the opposite way to the stampings! 
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« on: March 13, 2012, 08:19:54 AM »
My 1978 CB750 F2 came with the forks, calipers etc already off the bike.
I'm now trying to fit the calipers and they just don't want to clear the disc. It's a twin-disc set-up and I'm trying to mount them behind the fork leg with the lugs facing rearwards, is this right? Is there some sort of additional bracket or spacer that I'm missing?
Unfortunately my Haynes manual is totally useless as there are no references to twin-discs apart from the exploded diagram of the caliper.
On the single disc CB750s I've seen the caliper sits on the n/s of the bike, in front of the fork leg.
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« on: March 13, 2012, 08:13:45 AM »
I went to my local Honda dealers, Two Wheels in Edinburgh, they found me 2 in stock with Honda themselves.
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« on: March 07, 2012, 08:57:45 AM »
As the title suggests, I've bought a new set of seals for a CBR600 master cylinder and I don't know which way round the end one goes! I have the old piston and seal to show me that end, but the spring and seal fell out when I was dismantling it and I don't know if the seal goes at the piston end or the outlet end!
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« on: March 06, 2012, 08:42:25 AM »
Signed
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« on: February 24, 2012, 07:00:00 AM »
Hi Simon, did you get this sorted? I've found the pair that came with my bike, they are the solid Honda badges with Supersport 'built in' underneath. If yours are OK I might stick these on Fleabay.
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