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Honda CB750K5 Restoration by Royhall
Laverda Dave:
Yes Roy I think it was but away from home today so unable to check. They advertise in Classic Bike every month, that's how I found them about 20 years ago, used them ever since. They are one of the cheapest, and best I know. The first time I used them the owner actually dropped the completed parts off to me as he was passing, can't get better than that👍
royhall:
Not much done on the Honda this week as work has been mad. I don't know how James finds the time to do it? I visited the guy that has done the powder coating on all my other bikes (PX Wheels in Poulton Lancs) and he has agreed to do this one although he is winding down the business. That should be a real cost saving as he is less than half the price of the other guy. Part of that is that I have to do more preparation myself then when the blasting is done I have to go back and do the masking off. I really dont mind that as he's only charging me £200. Just checked everything over before taking it tomorrow.
Had a bit of fun getting the suspension bushes out of the swingarm this time. I used the old two socket trick with a length of thread bar, but this time they wouldn't budge a millimetre. A bit of heat from the blowlamp had them coming out nicely. For anyone that doesn't know this trick here are some pictures. And dont forget that when you have heated it with the blowlamp, don't put your hand on it. The blister has only just healed two weeks on.
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This afternoons task is to fill in the paperwork to get it registered. James has kindly annotated a V55/5 with all the correct boxes to fill in, this should make a doddle of a complicated form. If anyone is interested in this pro-former I will ask Steve if he can put it on a sticky somewhere or in Ash's cave.
Hopefully I will be able to do a bit more this coming week as work has calmed down a bit now.
smoothoperator:
Good tip on the 2 socket trick with a useful picture, keep it coming Roy really interesting stuff for noobs like me.
K2-K6:
Interesting thread Roy and good explanation of the strip down for others contemplating a restore project.
Hopefully adding something useful to topic, It's worth using copper slip, graphite grease or similar on threads of extraction mechanical devices as it ups the load by some margin to help with shifting things.
Also on pullers, threaded ball joint splitter etc too. It brings them much closer to a hydraulic puller in the power they can exert.
Laverdaroo:
--- Quote from: K2-K6 on March 20, 2022, 01:04:55 PM ---Interesting thread Roy and good explanation of the strip down for others contemplating a restore project.
Hopefully adding something useful to topic, It's worth using copper slip, graphite grease or similar on threads of extraction mechanical devices as it ups the load by some margin to help with shifting things.
Also on pullers, threaded ball joint splitter etc too. It brings them much closer to a hydraulic puller in the power they can exert.
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I've used the two sockets and a bit of threaded bar before but the copper slip thing is a top tip, thanks for that, thats geting logged. :)
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