So what have I’ve been doing ?…..well this arrived just before Christmas and I just had to play with it , its runs and is on the road.(stood for 25yrs)
(appear date on camera is 10yrs out)
Then Christmas and a stinky cold arrived.
So back to Cb400F special
I had by now given up any hope of set of alloys for bike and was starting on std hub , double discs laced to flanged ally rims ..mock up with manky wheels.
Then a set of ARE wheels, which needed work, appeared on ebay …and didn’t win them went for silly money y, but in a jammy git moment a set of CMA wheels appeared on Ebay for about 1 hr and were snapped up. In good condition one bearing need replacing and the black paint black came off to relieve 2 shades of gold , one red and finally grey, assume primer. So they are ready for painting but too cold for that. Piccy shows a lovely home made washer that sits behind the large circlip …..
OK sort out the forks , discs and calipers …….let nightmare start.
First off the caliper pistons from a second hand set off ebay (CB400N ones) had seized, one popped out with lots of heat and compressed air. The other one despite being soaked required more radical action . Weld a bolt to piston and using a set of spacers pulled it out. One new piston required.
Forks were a set of Cb400N one that I had and knew there was some play on them and I thought new bushes …however these earlier one don’t have bushes both leg and slider were worn …..search ebay again for set of forks. Found set but the description was iffy, even though I phone the guy to check there was no play, these were later type with bushes but one was missing ..sloppy fit or what.
Discs CB 400N have 5 holes CB400f have 4 holes ……drill hub ? or drill disc chose the later
Speedo drive :- Nearly gave up on this and was moving to using digital speedo and as used on lavukitangomonty (bit of orange for you)
The problem being the standard 400F speedo drive output is straight while cb400N is angled to get past the disc but is 5 mm too fat to allow the wheel to be central. Simple remove 5 mm from drive unit , reshape the worm drive to match , make up tab to drive the speedo ….simple took most of a morning and still a tight fit.
Right back to the fame , need to go to powder coater…but what colour ? . I would have liked a dark candy red this was expensive and would be hard to get a consistent finish and I had things like brake disc/calipers etc which I wanted in the same colour. So boring flat red but what shade .
Right time warp back to 1980 Mr Snix frame is paint in Massy Ferguson red , later 1983 following an incident with some gravel and a car. The new frame was painted Ford velvet red (burgundy) However the old girl was later used every day transport and the frame once again reverted to bright red. …so which colour, your’ll have to wait on that :-)
Old bike back in 1993 just before behind sold , have guess how much ? .....bloody muppet I am.
So frame is how with the coaters and just for good measure I stripped out my red 400/4 so the frame could done as well , its cold and not much is being done. There are two set of 400/4 in boxes and plan is work on the red 400/4 .So there will be another gap in installments.
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