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Chris400F:
The Harley footrests look much closer to the pivot point than on the Honda so there would be less movement from suspension travel, although still some.

As for the mounting kit, I have never seen anything like this advertised.
The early bikes with the footrests on the swinging arm still had a loop on the right of the frame to mount the silencer.
Without the different frames to compare I don't know how the size of this compares to the later bikes.
Maybe this could be used as a basis for a footrest mount on the right, just needing a loop to be welded to the frame for the left footrest.

Craig CB400:
So I will start playing a bit of a catch up on what has been done so far, will take a while so will spread it over a few posts to save boring everyone to death.

My first objective was really to get the frame stripped down completely and to break the components into smaller groups, then from their break everything into individual components. So after purchasing a new rack and containers to put everything in started the strip down process. First the tank, seat, battery, airbox, brakes, and headlight went into their respective bins without too many dramas so she was starting to look a little threadbare already. Everything taken off to this point looked salvageable to a point with a bit of effort, so far so good.



Next rear wheel came off without any problems, then the rear mudguards. At that point I found the outer guard was actually black fibreglass, so after holding back my gag reflex that went straight in the bin and a new item on the "Required" list. Also handlebars and clocks came off. From what I could see already almost everything had varying degrees of corrosion, from light surface rust to what looked like it had been left for a year in a salt marsh.



It seemed like I was going to spend the next 5 years just trying to clean up all the parts before I could even do anythig meaningful from a restoration point of view, when my wife came to the rescue with this  :D



So now armed with the ability to blast parts, started experimenting with various grades of grit to find what worked best on what material, finding the balance between removing old paint and corrosion without stripping back any metal. It was also time to invest in a new compressor, going from a baby 25 ltr 2 hp unit to a 50 litre 3hp unit, which allows for a much longer working time without pressure drop off, so now we were cooking!

Before



5 minutes later



Finally time to get back to the frame, and in a few hours she was looking super lightweight and time to start digging into the parts that had been stripped, but not after a liberal rust removal and rust curing session on the frame, I was not going to get it powder coated yet (reason will be revealed later), but no excuse to let it get worse



So that is all for now, going to sort through some other photos and prepare the next installment

petermigreen:
Possible opening a can of worms but... the headlight ears don't appear to be correct for a 400/4.
Think there should be a bracket.

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Chris400F:

--- Quote from: petermigreen on January 26, 2017, 05:29:41 PM ---Possible opening a can of worms but... the headlight ears don't appear to be correct for a 400/4.
Think there should be a bracket.

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I noticed that too, but looking back at the first pic in the thread the indicators look to be on such a bracket.
Is the bracket present but has been butchered and the headlight mounts removed, and the chrome headlight ears added instead?

Nurse Julie:
You are correct Peter. They should look like this.
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