Honda-SOHC

So for the curious, the gist of this damage is that gross misuse has stripped the teeth of 2nd and 3rd, locked up the free/splined cogs causing the shafts to rotate in their bearing housings and ramming the dowels down into the case where they have tried to exit. Subsequently the blind bearings are free(ish) to rotate as they want?

That's some achievement.

Sounds really nice! Like the Yoshis of the 70s. Whole bike looks really great.

http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php/topic,4947.0.html

As they say in Private Eye - WELL FANCY THAT!

I've just fitted the Newtronic ignition I bought from Trevor (firet49) so I bought this one.

It was £12.95 +£4.95 postage when I got it and the £19.95 postage in the current listing I assume is incorrect. Anyway, it works OK. Pick up is a little sensitive but I managed to get a good strobe even on 2/3.

I think it's one up from the cheapest. Does one need a rev-counter? F mark lines up when idle, advance mark lines up at 3k. Do we need  more? Won't see much use in my case.

Electronic ignition itself seems great. I know people say points will never let you down etc etc, but, really, fed up with always fiddling with it  ... 

Its not all bad John I feel like Iv missed out on the best time to be on the road and the best bikes.

Your sig suggests you are making up for being born too late. When did you get the 400?

Best thread ever! Well done Julie and congrats to both of you.

Is your exhaust original? I know you said you have a Brituro silencer - what about the downpipes?

Super job.

No it's just a blanking bolt at the top of the drilling the push rod runs in. If you choose to push down on the end of the rod while tensioning, then as always on all these engines, just enough and no more is what you need. They used to say "gently while the noise lessens" or something like that.

Is the engine high mileage? The cam journal in the first pic doesn't look very good :\