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CB750F2 .... silk purse from a sows ear.
SumpMagnet:
WEll...work has been taking a toll, along with the other nasty bits of real life...but the project still crawls along and I haven't lost interest.
The Mrs has given me a Christmas gift of a fork re-chrome .... so those weill be going off to Philpotts for a dose of their hard chrome. They aren't really that bad...but...small bits of pitting wherer you don;t want them are unsightly. The swept area was OK, but as it's all apart and I have fresh seals, dust covers and clips...and freshly painted legs and yokes ( satin blacked before the weather turned too cold to paint stuff in the shed! ) seems wrong to put them together with scabby forks.
I also want to use old-school fork gaiters. Fits with the look I am going for, and the blacked motor... But as the last pair of gaiters I fitted were some slick looking neoprene tubes...I might do that again.
The reluctant front brake piston has been popped out, and the front calipers are stripped ready for paint in the spring. New seals were bought...and the pistons are both in good order so will just get a clean up.
The rear brake piston seems glued in. It's soaking right now...and tif that doesn't free it..heat will be applied. I can see corrosion around the edge of the piston where it peeps out...so I am expecting the piston to be scrap. The rear brake on this bike was in poor shape all round...so that's no surprise. A rear brake rebuild kit was on the Christmas list, but I will be adding seals and probably a piston.
One of my 'goals' with the project has been to re-use as much of the bike as wqas physically possible. The urge to throw stuff away and replace is easy to give in to...but I don;t want to. I have time, I have patience...and I want to learn and practice skills, excercising my hands not the wallet....but when it comes to basic safety stuff...I need things to be right.
Next thing to think about is wheel bearings. The wheels are really clean and had no sign of corrosion or furring on the alloy. So...with the forks done, a rolling chassis just needs a few more odds and ends and I am there. Springtime.....will be engine time!
Spitfire:
Your approach sounds pretty sensible to me, I can remember spending a lot of time with Brillo pads, lolly sticks and my little Dremel, cleaning and polishing stuff. It took time but meant a lot of original parts were re used rather than being replaced.
Cheers
Dennis
SumpMagnet:
Birthday last week....and some pressies were received to help with the project.
I now have my suspension bushes to fit....a rebuild kit for the rear master cylinder and if I could actually get teh piston to shift from the rear caliper....I could paint that sucker too....but it is stuck tighter than a tight thing. Gonna take some time to shift that one.
Also finally got a satin paint finish on the fork yokes that I could live with. The pile of 'finished' parts is growing steadily....
Next job really is to swap the wheel bearings. That means undoing the bearing reatiners....so I sense more fun. The bearings are probably OK...but... having felt the difference when I swapped out the wheel bearings on the Hornet, I want new bearings. What's the best way of attacking the wheel bearing thing?
Bryanj:
For the calipertake the fitting off the flexible pipe on a greas gun and the pipe will then screw into thehydraulic pipe fitting about 1 1/2 threads then pump out the piston. Messy to clean up but its always worked for me
Bryanj:
Look carfully at the screwed in bearing retainers and find the "stake" marks, carefully drill these out with a 3mm drill to about 6mm deep. Warm up the hubs and the retainers should unscrew. 500 rear retainer is LH thread but cant remember on 750
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