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CB750F2 .... silk purse from a sows ear.
Spitfire:
Good luck with the house move, a very stressful time, I recently narrowly avoided it by building an extension to give me more garage space and spent some more on the garden for the "Boss".
Cheers
Dennis
SumpMagnet:
Yes!
this project isn't dead, and can now ..after 9 long gruelling months of trying to move house, finally get back under way.
Next week I get the keys to the new place, and it has a garage! the space I need to start assembling the beast. Before, all I had was a shed in the back garden with no access to the road..meaning aything I put together woud have to be carried through the house and assembled in the front garden. Not an ideal thing, and after that, it would have to live under a cover in the garden like my working bike does. Not the best setup either. Now I will have both the space and the storage.
Moving is going to be a bit of an upheaval, but once I am settled in, it will allow me to take stock of my stuff, lay stuff out, and start putting together the bits I have. There will be some bits that have suffered in storage ( I know I chipped hte frame paint....aaargh!) but I am so looking forward to getting established and getting this project back n the road now I have the space I need to enjoy it :)
Nurse Julie:
Good luck with the move.
SumpMagnet:
Well....I love my new garage! All the hassle of moving, boxing stuff up, unboxing stuff, and not knowing what is where is fading, and I have got some quality time in the bike space!
Ordered some parts from DS to get me going. Got a full engine gasket set ( which isn't... as it has no head gasket) and an oil seal set as I work my way towards getting the motor back together. Just need a load of gearbox bearings and a new primary chain and tensioner before I put hte bottom half together.
I also got myself a set of head bearings. I wanted the genuine Honda ones...but no stock, so I bought taper roller. I had bought a set before ...but they simply were a rubbish fit. The adjuster castle nut would barely get on the first thread, let alone do up. So....it was with a small degree of trepidation that I bought another set...and set to this morning.
The bearing sets went into the headstock with no dramas, the old bearing seats providing a handy drift to settle them in snug. Before I started though, I knocked out the set I had tried to fit....and put the stacks in order next to each other.....hmmm...
Can anyone see an issue here..... the newer set from DS is on the right..
They came with a spacer, and no instructions....but when I offered up the stem it was clear that the spacer was needed on the lower bearing, to let the lower yoke clear the headstock, and as it also placed the lockstops dead centre....it was obvious I needed it. The spacer needed a bit of dressing to slide on smoothly, and then I could pack the bearings....drift the lower race into place, and it all screwed up together just perfect.
It's at this point, that were I an engineer of Alan Millyard's calibre...I would have had time and opportunity for a cupcake. But...the Mrs doesn't bake anything humans can eat so I just got on with some more stuff.... Lucky bugger gets to be a genius and gets cupcakes.
Anyway...with the steering parts in place, and the hideous bars it came with bolted up for convenience....I thought I would drop the forks in. I know the top yoke has to come off again for the headlamp, and a few other jobs....but I wanted to get it all together for an initial build to make sure I had everything, and to make sure I found any snags. All went swimmingly!
I dusted off the wheels, front and rear, and got them into place, mainly so I could get the thing up on it's wheels to make it easier to move about. Things like the rear wheel spindle, spacers and the adjsuter end blocks are all a bit tatty....so I might invest in a plating kit to re-do these parts. Not sure how cost effective it is...but...it just might be a fun thing to try and do.
As a last vanity act....I just dropped the tank onto the mounts.....
Reminded me why I wanted to own one of these in the first place. Lovely clean lines.
philward:
Good work and looking good!
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