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CB750F2 .... silk purse from a sows ear.
SumpMagnet:
OMFG ..... I feel exhausted...but I AM VICTORIOUS!!!!!!
One by one the last bastions of cruddy fork seals have fallen to the onslaught of my mighty hammer, consigned to whatever foul hell spawned them. The battle was tough, and many were slain, but at last, I stand victorious atop a heap of severed seals.....
well.....I blame that on reading too much Tolkien as a child.
Anyway. The fork seals finally shifted. Much heat from the heatgun was required along with careful application of ultra-violence. A piece of 10mm OD steel tube was found in the spider haunted recesses of the shed, which fitted up the damper bolt hole and located in my smallest 3 leg puller. The pushed against the centre threaded bar and also kept all 3 legs spaced evenly at the right diameter to bear on the seal. This was after I had ripped off the rubber section on the inside to reveal the steel 'ring' and it's flange. ( a much under-used word...flange.... )
I could then beat seven bells out of the end of the steel tube and apply direct pressure on the puller without hte legs trying to close up and slip out of place.
Next...much heat was directed at the area from my hot air gun. Heated to the point the remaining rubber started to stink a bit and things got too hot to touch.
With much hammering, the odd bruised finger and much yelling of 'shift you bugger' ... first one and then the other came out.
What surprised me was the fact that there appeared to be virtually no corrosion of the alloy under the seal, and nothing but age and friction was keeping them in place. Still....that was enough to hold out for slightly longer than the allies held Tobruk in 1941.
With the seals out, I could properly clean up the last remnants of corroded steel stuck from the rusted springs and clean the muck from inside the legs where the sludge collected at the base. They a\re now ready for a quick rub down ( as am I ) followed by a coat of paint.
Not sure if the finish here is supposed to be gloss black...or satin. I am leaning towards satin as i plan on the same finish for the brake calipers and will fit rubber fork gaiters as it fits the look I am going for...and stops stone chips. I had some smart Neoprene ones on a supermoto a few years back. Might see if they are still being made.
Some days...restoration work s a bitch when it won;t work. Other days...simple things just give so much pleasure when you make progress.
paul G:
yelling of 'shift you bugger'
Never in a million years did you say BUGGER ;D ;D ;D ;)
Keep up the good work.
SumpMagnet:
Been a struggle to get stuff done over the last few weeks.
I have begun stripping and cleaning grotty old bits of metal and getting stuff ready for paint...but weather has been really impossible for paining. Cold, damp, and unpredictable.
Most of what I have been doing recently has been tidying ..organising...and consolidating.
Need to get Christmas out of the way, and then i can ghet this project back on track.
SumpMagnet:
Christmas ...and the festive season has been and gone, new year has been and my liver has gone.... so it was shed rehab time.
Didn;t get bought the parts I wanted Santa to bring....but I have some cash to spend, and some kind of a plan formed in my head.
One thing Santa did bring me, bless him, was a small ultrasonic cleaner. Been thinking about getting one for a variety of reasons....and not just to clean the dirty teaspoons.
Ran it for the first time today, and after a few runs through and about 20 minutes of effort, I was pretty pleased with the end results. The one I got was just big enough to take a single carb, and for cleaning up the small odds and ends, and for my other hobby ( RC cars ) this will also be perfect. So...does it work??
before:
carb just fits neatly into the basket
And after a few runs of the beast, we had this:
and water that looked...er...like this....
Took a few goes to shift the crud in the floatbowl....but hte less soilidified crud and fuel residue in the carb seems to have shifted really well. I noticed quite a bit of the dirt on the outside didn;t look to shift...but was just lifted off the metal and wiped away with a soft bristle brush. Going to give the outside a buff up and give everything a rinse with some fresh petrol...and it will be time to order a set of carb rebuild kits and finsish them off properly.
For the time and complete lack of effort required....I was pretty impressed with how this thing did it's work!
Green1:
I'm all for cleaning things the easy way.
I hate prep work of any kind as its to much like being at work.
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