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Busy recommissioning the K1
Andrew-S:
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--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on January 03, 2019, 07:02:05 PM ---So if it has the original caps, (were they metal?, maybe someone can confirm) then yes DR8ES. Very rare to see any SOHC these days with those old metal caps, i thought everyone had ditched them years ago as they were rubbish.
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I understood the metal caps were on the later UK bikes, but I may be wrong - these are plastic, which I understand were original to the US bikes.
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You're most probably right Andrew. We only have UK SOHC's so i should have guessed it may have been another one of those anomalies. So, are the black caps you have fitted resisted or non resisted? Just interested to know.
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I have no idea Julie, but given DR8ES came out then I'd have to say non-resisted caps.
Nurse Julie:
That's what i thought with one of my old Hondas. It had DR8ES fitted, so i replaced them with DR8ES's and then found out it had resisted caps. It caused me no end of agro until i fitted the D8ES's.
Trigger:
--- Quote from: Andrew-S on January 03, 2019, 04:28:03 PM ---Well, it feels like I haven't stopped working on the K1 since I collected it on Fri 21 Dec - Christmas and New Year just seemed to come and go.......
So far, I've put about 20+ hours into cleaning it and it's coming up nicely - over the last few days I've been preparing the K1 for starting, as in:
Dropped the air filter and found a nice new K&N
Pulled the float bowls expecting the worse from standing for 3 years, but they were nice and shiny - result.
Oiled and freed off the throttle cables - now snaps shut with a vengeance!
Split the switchgear and cleaned the contact surfaces, so now got a nice smooth action
Adjusted the cam chain
Oiled the cam and running upper running gear as it was pretty dry - also dropped some oil down the bores just in case
Pulled the plugs (what a pig 2 & 3 were!) and changed them - the old ones were an even mid-light brown, so happy with that
Did a compression test but my gauge (Draper) has a fixed tube and reader so could't get it in to do No2 & 3 - No1 & 4 read 150, so hopefully that's indicative of the other two...........?
Dumped the oil and there were no shiny bits in my wife's kitchen sieve (note to self: buy her a new one!), so pretty confident there's nothing nasty going on inside.
My service kit arrived today from DS, including a new battery, plugs and oil, filter etc so the battery is currently on charge and I plan to flush the engine through tomorrow, change the oil and filter, rig up a remote tank and try to fire the old girl up - I'll see where I go from there - fingers crossed.
Cheers
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As part of a major service on a 750, Honda recommend that the sump pan be removed and the oil strainer cleaned ;)
Andrew-S:
--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on January 03, 2019, 07:39:11 PM ---That's what i thought with one of my old Hondas. It had DR8ES fitted, so i replaced them with DR8ES's and then found out it had resisted caps. It caused me no end of agro until i fitted the D8ES's.
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Pete says it was running nicely before it's lay-up, and Pete knows his stuff, so I'd take it the DR8ES are fitted to non-resisted caps.
A numpty question, but out of interest - how can you tell if a plug is a non-resisted or resisted one?
Cheers
Andrew-S:
--- Quote from: Trigger on January 03, 2019, 07:48:36 PM --- As part of a major service on a 750, Honda recommend that the sump pan be removed and the oil strainer cleaned ;)
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Yep, that's on my list Trigger - it'll get a major service once I've started it up and heard it running.
Cheers
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