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CB750F2 .... silk purse from a sows ear.
SumpMagnet:
Ha Ha! One step forward. Not all the steps...but I will take 1 step forward and no steps back any day.
The fork cap is off and the other leg is apart. Now, I read somewhere that oil and water don't mix....but it appears the previous owner of this bike had a very good go. What fell out of hte fork legs was an interesting mix of sludge, oil and a bit of water. It didn't mix on my shed floor either.....
Note to self...use a bigger bowl to catch the mess so you don't pour it all next to the bowl....not in it. Still...the shed floor needed a good clean anyway.
Mess cleaned up, the opther clip came out easy and in one piece. I could almost consider putting it back in ...but I won't. Both dust caps were cracked and hard as nails so both will want replacing. They won't keep the dust, grit water or field mice out.
After a gfood soak in WD40, the broken bit of clip popped out nicely. I was able to get a pointy thing under the end and it came out. Wooden cocktail stick for the win! The same stick has got the crud out of the groove aided by the Mk I Fingernail. No pointy screwdrivers here.
So...that's progress!
Neither fork seal will budge a bit, so the next thing to try after an overnight soak will be some heat. Hot air gun should help to expand the alloy a bit and hopefully break the seal and let the seals come out. So far..I have been using a reverse puller just hooked under the seal held in a vice while I try and tap the leg off the seal with a rubber mallet. Not having it....and I don;t want to try force...so will try chemicals...followed by fire. I can think of more drastic things to try...but I REALLY don't want to be doing things like them.
Trigger:
I always put them in the oven and the heat will soften the seal to make it so easy to pull out ;)
Yoshi823:
Only just had a chance to begin to read about this project. Got as far as the part where the basic part of the bike was carried through the house & it reminds me of the 3rd rebuild of my 750F2 back in the early '80s. At the time I had an upstairs maisonette so there were several flights of stairs to navigate so as to get the frame & engine assembly down to the garage.
This was in my bedroom...
SumpMagnet:
Glad I didn;t have to negotiate any stairs!
Have to ask though...that frame...doesn't look standard. Looks like you can actually work on the engine with it in the frame.....
Yoshi823:
The standard frame was modified so that the top end was able to be worked on, mainly because I had a tacho drive oil seal go & I ended up having to remove the engine just for that 20p (at the time) seal. As I didn't have any of my own facilities at the time, I had to use a friend's garage, much to his mum's annoyance.
The modified frame needed a new tank to be made, which wasn't a problem as I wanted a Phil Read Replica style tank
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