Work continues on K Two....
Wheels are cleaned up, black paint removed from front hub, polished and new bearings installed. Its nice to have a local bearing supply house (Oshkosh Bearing & Transmission). They had everything I needed on the shelf, and at a fraction of what you would pay online. A few years back, I was working on a project that I needed a new bearing pressed in. I usually had to drop stuff off at a local machine shop, and then wait a week to get it back. I got tired of waiting, so I made my own hydraulic press. Turns out, I made it just big enough to fit a SOHC wheel
. Just to be clear, installing bearings in the wheels can be easily done with a hammer, but since I have the press sitting there, I had to use it. Made an easy job of installing the All Balls bearing on the lower tree as well. Nice not having to hammer on the bearings.
With all the bearings installed, next up was mounting the new Conti's which went on with a minimum amount of encouragement
. Front forks were taken apart, cleaned, polished, and put together with new seals (with a little help from the forum archives)
Center stand and Hondaman rebuilt swingarm were next......... I was really fortunate when picking the bike up, (it had aftermarket shocks on it), looking around the PO's garage, I spotted the original shocks in a pail in the corner... they cleaned up like new.
I'm pretty sure my neighbors must wonder why I am constantly wheeling that thing out and taking pictures of it..... oh well
.
While on the subject of taking pictures, I couldn't resist checking out how the tank would look on the frame..... here is a teaser shot:
Focus next was on getting the battery box/electrics back on. Check out the starter solenoid... there's an excellent section on how to rebuild it in Hondaman's book, its as clean and shiny on the inside as the outside now. All connectors on the harness and battery box were cleaned, some of them were covered in the greenish corrosion, a bit tedious, but should pay off in the end. Note the replacement fuse block from Honda (also known as 32110-300-000) - I love the outdated stuff like this, part of what makes it a vintage bike.
I like before and after shots..... (hopefully you can tell which is which
)
I feel like a Pavlovian dog now when I open a box and see those beautiful red and white labels
......
(WARNING - shameless want ad - sorry but it is my thread)
I was lucky enough to get two really big boxes from the Honda mothership....
but looks like I'm going to really have to hunt down the other two. Darn, just when its my time to order a set of HM341's, Honda decides to (hopefully temporarily) discontinue production. I have pipes number 1 and 4 (18300-341-907 / 18450-341-907) and am looking for numbers 2 and 3 (18350-341-907 /18400-341-907) Have any extras lying around that you want to sell? PM me !!!!
Well here's where I'm at today....
Thanks for stopping by!
