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The F2 Restoration

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K2-K6:
Pete, this is really good to see the build and that you've logged it so well for all of us to see.

Some observations that may help others, When cleaning threads in castings it's often easier to make a tool out of an allen bolt as a good quality black one is effectively forged and has a much higher torque capacity than a tap which is brittle. Particularly if you get any blast grit in the hole, the tap snags on this and will not cut it so bingo / snapped before you know it. If any interest I can post a method in tips maybe.

If a hardened tap is really stuck and inaccessible, if you can find anybody to do it then spark erosion can desolve it, (you'd normally have to be stripped down to a bare casting though as it has to be immersed in turps to carry out.

I bought a genuine snap-on six sided socket for the valve adjust caps years ago and it's never rounded any caps off, some people do these up as if they were going to lift the bike up by them not just to keep the oil in.

Same for the oil filter bolt, Honda put a small head on that one so you can't over torque it. It just needs doing up until the o-ring is squashed and you can feel that by gently twisting the housing left to right as you tighten until you feel the housing just contact the cases, Done.

It'll be good to see the F2 when It's running.

UK Pete:
Good advise about the thread cleaning, i was really enjoying the restoration of this bike and logging my progress, but i am enjoying the summer so much at the moment riding my other bikes that i cant bring myself to get on with it, although at some point i will have to get a move on because i have  another  cb750 f2 cafe racer project to build 3 gpz550's to restore, 2 klr600's  to build, 1 klr tengai, and a italjet MB5  for restoration. so the next ten or so years is already mapped out restoring .
Pete

K2-K6:
Oooh that is a lot to do, don't they call that "time bankrupt" I'm just on painting the outside of the house, started a couple of years ago got halfway down then bought another bike, end of painting!

Noticed you've had a go at V8 Rovers as well, I've had that addiction, still not over it.

UK Pete:
I cant stop myself from buying older bikes , and then spending time and money on them its an obsession i am sure many of us have.
I had my v8 rover p6 when i was 20, petrol was alot cheaper then and i could afford to run it , i like the engines and did alot of work on mine in my bedroom of all places, i could not afford to run one of those engines any more 15 to the gallon is about the best i got from it
Pete

K2-K6:
I know it's off topic for this forum but those P6 rovers are nice. There was a manual white one with period minilite wheels at newlands corner the other month, very nice.

I don't know if you recall but I've got an original spec blue colour 750 F2 stored at my place for a freind so if you need any details give us a shout, no dismantling though. It has a genuine Yoshimura pipe on it that looks really nice and an original standard set with it.

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