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ted_paper:

--- Quote from: rigwit on August 30, 2010, 12:35:02 PM ---http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-HONDA-400-4-RESTORATION-SPARES-/110579121156?pt=UK_Motorcycles

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That looks good - except its a bit too far south.

Is that the main thing to look for when buying on old bike, that the engine turns?

Cheers

SteveD CB500K0:
At 56k miles it will need a complete engine rebuild (as well as a respray...)

Octavian:
Hey Ted, no doubt, I realise I got lucky on price, but she was only half a bike with a box of bits.  I gambled, it could have been a lot of cash, a long drive, a heap of junk and a trip to the tip.  So far I think I have done ok, but she is nowhere near an MOT yet.

Octo

ted_paper:
Seen a bike advertised as a '78 400/4 Supersport ..didn't they stop making them in '77?

exvalvesetdabbler:

--- Quote from: rigwit on August 30, 2010, 10:00:01 AM ---
--- Quote from: ted_paper on August 29, 2010, 06:50:13 PM ---Thanks for the welcome.

My ability could safely be classed as zero!! My great fear is getting a bike and then getting stuck for lack of a) knowledge and b) tools.
From lurking, I see that that a lot of folks out there are very helpful so that would leave me worrying about specialist tools. Would I need any or are they all your bog standard sockets and screwdriver sets?

Cheers


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standard tools  ie sockets and combo spanners will allow you to take most of the bike and engine apart, nothing special needed unless you strip down the engine  ie  you will need an impact driver if the standard screws are in the outer componments, clutch centre nut tool, and a rotor puller will allow a total stip down of the engine,  also if you gonna go further ie take of con rods, then thinwall 12 mm socket needed  also stud extractor as no doubt one or 2 will be a bugger to get out (studs that is) you can get away with a valve extractor by tricks of the trade so to speak as well as some other processes :)

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Clutch center tool - angle grinder or Dremmel and an old socket of the right size works wonders. 

Valve extractor - I once saw an emergency replacement of a broken valve outer spring done on an old car by stuffing a ball of string down the plug hole, bringing it to TDC and brute force to compress the new spring.

Rotor puller - I fashioned one from an old spark plug body, screw it into the rotor with a couple of soft washers as packing that press on the end of the crank and then hit it with the hammer.

Oh, and decent torque wrench is a must!!!!

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