Honda-SOHC

What taysidedragon said.

Good technical content. Thanks for Posting. I'm sure it will have a subconscious affect on the way I ride my 400 from now.

Thanks Ian,

How did you remove them, with heat, penetrating oil and the ol' double nut technique?

No, Unfortunately my bike didn't come with one when I bought it

Ok, I'll send this kit back then and let wemoto know that this kit doesn't fit the cb400f as advertised.

I'll grab the sprockets from dss,.

As for the chain, my preference would be to have a coloured chain such as bright or gold finish rather than the self coloured one dss sells. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Hi chris,

That sounds good to me. Thanks for taking that measurement.

Regards, Ryan

I don't know, I think there will always be a market for things like this. People are always drawn in by the fasions and relics of years gone. I'm 25 now, owned my 400f for 2 and a half years I guess and I wanted a 400 for a further few years before that, got swizzed for this one, what i was told was meant to be a light resto turned into replace anything engine related. It's my second bike after my honda xl varadero 125.

I wanted this bike as soon as I watched this video of a 350f for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emjPQhb8-nc

Obviously not because of nostalgia and noone in my family rides bikes other than my grandfather but he gave it all up before I was born. I just loved the look and I wanted to have something I could work on, It's been a pain and I've wanted to watch it burn a few times like anyone with a project but I love riding it, the sound, the smell and I love the look of it (I do wish it was a bit more powerful though...). plenty of my friends like it too and we have apprentices at work that are 16/17 and love it also despite there being lots of newer, nice, bigger and faster bikes in the parking area.

A friend of mine younger than me, his first "car" was a Land rover series IIa back when he turned 17. I don't know where he drew his inspiration for that, But it's pretty cool. I guess my point is that fads come and go certainly but I can't see the market for old classic bikes such as the ones on this forum will crashing to the point of worthlessness. I've come to terms with the fact it's not worth anywhere near as much as I've spent.

Hello all,

I apologise if this topic has been covered enough already but I want to repaint my 400/4 engine during the Christmas break.

When I rebuilt the engine ~ a year ago I used the VHT paint that DSS stocks. My preparation was individually bead blasting each part and a solvent wash etc. The paint was applied as per instructions, only I omitted to bake the paint as our electrode oven was out of action at the time but his site suggested that it would cure under engine heating.

Fast forward around 3k miles and the paint looks quite poor in my opinion with some areas down to the bare metal and I'm still left with silver over my hands etc when handling/working the engine/bike at all.

I came across a high(ish) temperature aluminium/zinc paint that lidl was stocking (See attached) at £2.50 a tin. On other parts I've painted the paint seems pretty good, resists solvents, durable and doesn't require baking. However, the temperature of this paint is up to 250c.

Do you guys think this is high enough heat resistance? I also plan on using an etch primer on the parts but I am unsure if etch primer has a high enough service temperature, or whether or not i would be better off with/without it

The engine will be being painted assembled this time and I plan on gunk green washing, rub down with scotchbrite and giving it a good clean off with brake cleaner or some other degreaser.

I will also test this out on some scrap aluminium and put it in the now working electrode oven up to 250c

Thanks

Cheers lads, I'll give it a go when I come to it next.

thanks, Ryan