Topic: Sandcast 4286 Project

[Stev-o]

Ride on a Sandie after total rebuild......priceless!   Congrats Greggo. 

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Titled!! What a relief.

Great Lancia!

[toytuff]

Congrats Greggo and job well done!

Beautiful, just beautiful.

tt

[Tews19]

Congrats on the bike Gregg! I am curious as to how long you plan to hold onto it? I ask because I have the 550 survivor and to be honest it's to nice for me. With no storage space in my garage I'm afraid of damaging the bike. I know it's not on  a Sandie level, but I do not want to devalue the bike due to something small happening to it while in my possession.

[Greggo]

Congrats on the bike Gregg! I am curious as to how long you plan to hold onto it? I ask because I have the 550 survivor and to be honest it's to nice for me. With no storage space in my garage I'm afraid of damaging the bike. I know it's not on  a Sandie level, but I do not want to devalue the bike due to something small happening to it while in my possession.

Thanks!!!

I'm not trying to hold onto it for long, I want to sell it so I can move on and fix up the K4..then fix up and sell the turbo..then fix up and keep that CL72.  I'd keep it if I hadn't spent a small fortune to restore it, and had the space to store it indoors where I live now.  I really like that orange 550 of yours...but I wouldn't want to keep it outside either. 

[Tews19]

Oh I'm keeping the orange one. That has my 605 engine in it. It's the 4199 mile brown 76. It's in my 2.5 car garage cover up. But I also keep other items in there hence not wanting it to get dinged or damaged while sitting.

I think you mentioned you had a potential buyer before.  How does that look? Or will you be going the eBay route?

[Stev-o]

But I also keep other items in there hence not wanting it to get dinged or damaged while sitting.

Tews,  cover that bike up with furniture blankets from Home Depot.

Greggo - I finally bought an H1 I've been wishing for.

Hijack over.

[Greggo]

Took another trip to the DMV to turn in the VIN verification and got a license plate and tags...fully registered, title's coming in the mail.

Oh I'm keeping the orange one. That has my 605 engine in it. It's the 4199 mile brown 76. It's in my 2.5 car garage cover up. But I also keep other items in there hence not wanting it to get dinged or damaged while sitting.

I think you mentioned you had a potential buyer before.  How does that look? Or will you be going the eBay route?

Hmm, maybe I've confused it with someone else's bike.  I remember someone picking up an orange 550 with low miles, pristine condition, and it had Lesters to boot.  I'll have to take a look at that brown one!

But I also keep other items in there hence not wanting it to get dinged or damaged while sitting.

Greggo - I finally bought an H1 I've been wishing for.

Hijack over.

NICE Stev-o!!

[Don R]

 I put a plate on 5511 today. I sold the 76F and transferred the plate over. There's a polar bear run nov 1. nearby  I may ride it even though it's already hibernating.

[Stev-o]

Are you almost ready for a test ride, Greggo?

[Greggo]

Are you almost ready for a test ride, Greggo?

Just saw the Kawi Stev-o!  So nice!

I got it to the Highway Patrol station a few miles down the road for the VIN verification, but it was leaking pretty badly from that puck all over the front of the motor once I got back...it's only worse now, so bad that I can't ride it without oil dripping onto hot pipes = I can't ride it.  I have to start tearing it down enough to get the motor out on my next trip   

The only good news from today is that I was finally able to force the center stand spring onto the notch.

[Stev-o]

Sorry to hear about the oil leak. 

[goldarrow]

Bummer.  I use hondabond to seal those pucks.  I clean the holes with acetone the small amount of hondabond, seat the puck and turn it so the sealant gets spread all on the pucks.

[toytuff]

Are you almost ready for a test ride, Greggo?

Just saw the Kawi Stev-o!  So nice!

I got it to the Highway Patrol station a few miles down the road for the VIN verification, but it was leaking pretty badly from that puck all over the front of the motor once I got back...it's only worse now, so bad that I can't ride it without oil dripping onto hot pipes = I can't ride it.  I have to start tearing it down enough to get the motor out on my next trip   

The only good news from today is that I was finally able to force the center stand spring onto the notch.

Boy, I remember fighting that on my K7! Absolute nightmare. Don't feel bad, my Brutale has been on the lift since September. Still trying to diagnose a stalling issue.
    Only put 100 miles on it to date.

I'm getting pretty good with a meter. Waiting on diagnostic cables to run software and found service history. Working on newer bikes with more sensors than the space shuttle is a brain teaser. Without software I'm grasping at straws. Still think it's a fueling issue. Fun stuff.

The Ducati is running good. Nice to have a spare. 

tt

[Greggo]

Z1parts sent me a brand new coil to replace the bad unit...wanted to give them some good feedback since I mentioned it earlier.  The California DMV made quick work of my title application.  I had to find a black plate that had a 1969 (year of make) registration tag to get it set up, and I found a pretty nice one on fleabay...also picked up a slightly rare blue california plate.  The prisoners at Folsom hadn't changed out the presses for the new blue plate size in 1970, so a few thousand blue/yellow plates were printed in the larger black/yellow size.  It's a subtle difference, but I liked the story (that I read somewhere else) to buy it from the same seller for $20



In the sh1tty news department, I got a bench ready in the back room of the shop where I can work on the motor.  I'm going to go down to the pistons and make everything fresh with a 1.00 set (two steps over what I have).  I should have done it from the start.

[Greggo]

Ready.  Set.  GO (backwards)!!  The motor's ready to pull on my next visit.  I'm going to use the two jack stands and a metal pipe method to slide her out while the bike sits on the center stand...not laying it on the side this time!

[toytuff]

Sorry to hear Greggo.

So, if you have a couple of black plates you can reuse them if the plate has a prior registration tag? I have two on the wall.

tt

[Greggo]

Sorry to hear Greggo.

So, if you have a couple of black plates you can reuse them if the plate has a prior registration tag? I have two on the wall.

tt

What years are the tags on the plates?  In California, the most common way to register an old plate requires it to have a registration tag from the YOM (Year of Manufacture), but the plate needs to be usable and currently unregistered.  The bike only needs one; cars need a matching pair with one set of tags.

[toytuff]

tt

[Greggo]

tt

Very nice!!  I especiallly like the SoCal dealer frames!

[toytuff]

tt

Very nice!!  I especiallly like the SoCal dealer frames!

These came off the two CT-90 bikes I bought. Sold the CT's, kept the plates. 

tt

[Greggo]

I curse the design team at Honda who decided it would be just fine if the motor had to come out for top end work on these bikes...bastards.

I went with Yamiya's 1.0mm overbore piston kit, their head gasket, and other top end seals.  I'll figure out what went wrong when I pull the valve cover and cam next time, hopefully.

[Stev-o]

I curse them too.  I need to replace the chromed head cover on my K4 but dont want to pull the motor just for that.

I may have missed something, why are you going big bore?

[Greggo]

I curse them too.  I need to replace the chromed head cover on my K4 but dont want to pull the motor just for that.

I may have missed something, why are you going big bore?

Insurance.  I should have gone with fresh bores from the start.  The three holes we honed were not as nice as the one that had to be bored.

[Greggo]

It didn't take long to see why the puck was leaking so badly when I got the valve cover off..the cam tower bolts were loose. Not loose like I'd forgot to tighten them, but I could rock the very top ones back and forth. I took out the correct torque wrench and found that they were stripped. Further investigation uncovered a few more that wouldn't torque properly. So, I tore the cam and towers out and installed helicoils in all twelve cam bolt and stud holes. I had to be very meticulous about prep and clean up with the drilling and metal shavings. All told it took about three hours, but I'm confident I've fixed the cause of the leak now, and I'm going to re-torque the head, put it back together and put some miles on it without going further for the re-bore.  If it ends up needing it, I'll do it.