Honda-SOHC

Wow, love this thread, I can see it going for many pages. I agree with everything so far, though my biggest hate is the lack of common sense.
As a child, I had many accidents, so I know not to touch things that are hot, tease dogs until they bite you.
Whilst I am not racist, I still cannot believe the Political Correctness of no Golliwogs on Robertson Jam.

Ash,
Clearly you are annoyed by the way you have been messed about, and understandably so, but please do not generalise or even  categorise all newbies or low volume posters as Lurkers. I like many, visit this forum for the pleasure it gives, yes, to ask for help and if I can contribute or help. For myself, I actually ran a car forum 20 years ago, just after we moved from Bulletin boards and the participating characters have not changed, You get the genuine people, the egotists and the idiots and any forum can be a real double edged sword. I have very few posts on here relative to the time I have been registered, but I have restored 4 honda cb400f’s in the time here( which this forum has given me the confidence to do) , I have pm’d members and purchased direct from them. In fact I have even purchased from yourself via your ebay listings.
I think it’s a great forum and those that post regularly like yourself, help to make it so. Just please don’t tar all low posters with the same brush. I might be shy, lacking confidence, unable to suffer fools, but give me a chance because without the newbies this forum would die.

Thank you that does make sense. I think I will fit it all together and tighten it all up to remove play, then strip it to see how far the lower bearing is up the tube and see if its contacting the shoulder that restricts how far it can travel upwards. If there is a gap still to the shoulder I will measure the gap and make a spacer so it cant pull the bottom yoke up too far.

Welcome Pete
I am sure you will know by now its not only rewarding but addictive too

What an excellent read this is, especially for a Newbie to the forum like myself as it allows you to form a character image.
Myself, well in my teens my dad said that I would be a Jack of all trades and a master of none - I think he was right.
So, expelled from school ( spent too much time playing with motorbikes when I should have been doing school work..)
Went into Electrical sales, then Vehicle Body Repairs, then local garage mechanic, then went down the mines and ended up in management. After redundancy went into Environmental and Occupational Monitoring. Then Engineering, Motorsport and now semi retired, or should I say "Head cook and bottle Washer" whilst the gaffer is the main bread winner.
Currently I am re-learning all the things that I have forgotten how to do on bikes , but they take a lot longer to do than I remember.
( Now I spend too much time playing with motorbikes when I should be doing housework )
Russell

John, can you tell me who your wheel builder is, in Hereford please, as I will soon require a rear sorting out.
Russell ( Much Birch )

Thanks everyone. I took them in this morning. My only concern is that there is not going to be a great deal of wall thickness left at the bottom of each sleeve and the loss of any usable chamfer may mean a faff with the rings. Just an idea but is it possible to sick two pistons in the barrel first then just fit the gudgeon pins rather than attempting all four piston whilst lowering the cylinders ?