Honda-SOHC

First of the new parts.
A nice new set of exhausts thanks to James.
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Not that I ride into London anymore, but this is a late April Fools joke surely.
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/1250-london-motorcycle-toll-approved/26457.html

Great looking bike.
If mine turns out half as good as yours I'll be really pleased

Well so far so good.
I've only had one sheared bolt, one chewed screw and a bent screw that resulted in a cracked sprocket cover.

The bike has definitely been used off road.

Wiring loom will need to be replaced as it's been butchered.

Should be completely broken down by next weekend, then I can start sending stuff away for refurbishment. Oh I better write a big shopping list.

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Hmmm!

A bit of rust then.
Down pipes are solid.

Right then, here we go.
Time to start pulling it apart.
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As you can see I have quite a bit of work ahead of me.

Progress, I think.

Managed to get the damaged sprocket cover off the bike. A bent screw was the problem.
Found a lovely mouse nest and more dead spiders behind it.

Can't see why the starter motor was disconnected, it does spin over when I hot wire the starter solenoid.

The crowning achievement of yesterday's efforts was I managed to get the beast to fire up for a whole 2-3 seconds.
Carbs still leak, no surprise there then. What little noise the engine made sounded pretty good. No nasty clattering, but I won't know for sure until I have a look inside.

I'll upload a few more photos when I get a minute.

More as it happens.

Thanks for the nova info James.

Spent a few hours today trying to get the 350 to start, the closest it got was one very loud cough. I really need to hear it running before I start The strip down. Carbs off tomorrow as they all leak out of the bottom.

Had a bit of a disaster with the left hand engine casing. My own fault really, in my eagerness to find out why the starter motor wires have been tampered with. I put a crack in the casing whilst trying to undo a butchered screw
So I've picked up a blowtorch and will leave the fists of ham indoors next time I go near it.

More as it happens

Tim