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CB750F2 .... silk purse from a sows ear.
SumpMagnet:
hmm...that zinc paint looks like it will do the job. Will add it to the ever growing list of things to spend money on :) But I want to preserve the important parts that give the look I want. And that means a nice shiny chrome front guard.
Odd really...as I remember back in the day the fashion was to bin the chrome front guards and fit fibreglass ones with all sorts of horrid aerofoil shapes on them. Then...as the forks now lost the thing that braced them..namely a heavy steel mudguard...they fitted a fork brace.
Mind you...Suzuki ones just used to rust out completely in the centre....
Julie....gotcha on the paint. Damn thing doesn;t fit in the oven....but I have a plan B .....
Nurse Julie:
Not many domestic ovens take a complete CB750/4 engine and none take almost 100kg or whatever it is. All I know is they are bloody, bloody heavy.
SumpMagnet:
bloody heavy indeed! Last motor I swapped was a Z750 lump, and I did that on my own. Took two of us to carry the CB750 out to the shed. A wrecked motor would make an excellent ship anchor.
Nurse Julie:
--- Quote from: SumpMagnet on February 27, 2019, 08:12:58 PM ---bloody heavy indeed! Last motor I swapped was a Z750 lump, and I did that on my own. Took two of us to carry the CB750 out to the shed. A wrecked motor would make an excellent ship anchor.
--- End quote ---
Plenty that we have through here for overhaul HAVE been used as ships anchors !!! It's the Barnacles that give it away ;D
K2-K6:
About the front mudguard, the Honda type usually rust through in that sandwich area above the brace and around the rivets. normally seen by rust bubbling through the top surface, by which time it's too late.
Maybe worth thinning the paint first and try getting it to run inside that joint with it upside down.
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