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1969 CL450 US Barn Find Restoration
jensen:
Hi,
I won't correct you, you're right, that's what I meant ;)
btw, sorry for my English, sometimes I can't find the right words or way to say it,
so it might be unclear what I'm talking about to someone else.
Jensen
MrDavo:
I realise there are people freezing out there, but our current weather is frustrating- my cam has been on the other side of Manchester and due for delivery for the last two days, my parts order from DS is similarly somewhere out there stuck in a snowdrift.
If things can just get here by the weekend I can get on with the head.
MrDavo:
Very frustrating, as this weekend was the last chance for a while to be in the garage for any length of time. saturday we walked in the snows to a foodie pub, got there too early and carried on to another, for a few pints of Reverend James' and some crisps. By the time we floated back past the foodie pub, lunch was over, so we made do with the crisps we'd had. :D Sunday I mostly stayed in and watched the H&H auction online.
The cam came, eventually, all the way from Georgia, but my packet with oil seals, damper rings etc from D Silvers is somewhere out there in the postal backlog, so I can't fit anything yet.
As you can see, the replacement cam (nearest the camera) is in even better knick than my original, hardly a mark on it. Perhaps this is an upside of choosing a bike that was often used often as a 'toy', rather than commuting week in week out for years with indifferent maintainence.
The stainless screws for the tank badges turned up, the first ones I'd bought were too short, although being the length Honda quote in the parts book. Anyhow I can now fit them to see how they look, one day the tank will be Menno's finest Candy Blue, of course. Badges are hard to find as it is (mine were long knicked), almost impossible with the '450' as well, so I'm chuffed with these, from California via eBay.
K2-K6:
Nice buy, it looks even better than the seller photos.
At least you can now be confident of the rebuild.
The original could still be useful to someone with the general condition being very good apart from the obvious. I suppose we look at it from a repair point of view as trying to reinstate to original, but it could be possible for someone to machine it down and make bespoke flanges to fit and make it useful again. I don't know the original construction method though.
JamesH:
Dave - did you sort airbox inners??:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F352297366516
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