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OAP Ted's CB400F2 rebuild - engine not run for about 12 years.
Laverdaroo:
Thats looking fab Ted, I'm ABSOLUTELY loving the gold rims, they bring the blue out beautifully. Dont make it 'too' blue though mate. It's your bike but just saying. I always go out looking at colours in the car parks, its a great starting point as you'll know the make so you can narrow the colour chart down then once sorted, take that colour code to your painter and say what alterations you want such as brighter, darker, bit of sparkle, what ever. Saves a lot of umming and ahh-ing and trawling through colour charts.
The colour we did Chewy was a Mercedes Vito colour, they only did four or five shades of that blue that year, on that van. Once all five are in front of you it's easy to spot the one you liked and thats the code to start from. Saves loads of time and makes the process a lot less faff.
Go for a mooch round the supermarket car park, next time your there and see what floats yer boat and yer away...
Top build though Ted, loving it to bits, well done.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
As posted elsewhere today I bled the front brakes using a syringe to pump it into the front caliper bleed nipple using Silicone brake fluid in a clean system - it went like a dream with a decent solid lever.
Next task is the valve clearances - I could do with it being just a tad warmer as I want to do all 8 in one warm session. I have the feeler strip so next I'll read up on the sequence/order in the manual.
Laverdaroo:
The manual's a pig Ted dont follow that!
I think Bryan had a simple way on one of his posts, worth a read and makes much better sense. Have a look or PM him mate, it saves hours.
K2-K6:
Tappets, all four cylinder conventional engines are the same essentially.
Turn crankshaft to T on 1+4 cylinders (1 OR 4 will now be on compression with both valves closed) set the clearance on the cylinder that's on compression with both valves closed, also 2+3 cylinders will have ONE of their valve closed so you can set those.
Now rotate the crankshaft 360 degree to T again, now the opposite of 1+4 cylinders can be set along with the two on 2+3 you didn't do the first time.
In short, with the two crankshaft position you can complete all the valves.
Laverdaroo:
Might have been K2K6 then ;)
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