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Offline MauiK3

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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #950 on: September 28, 2025, 08:19:29 AM »
Beautiful 1100!
If it didn't already have an O2 sensor, how will it be used?
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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #951 on: September 28, 2025, 10:43:28 AM »
Beautiful 1100!
If it didn't already have an O2 sensor, how will it be used?
I have an autometer gauge on the handlebars, it reads out digitally and with a color bar graph. It also has a digital memory that I can check later. It seems the carbs came jetted very well when new. My probe was reading rich and led me astray.
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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #952 on: September 28, 2025, 04:27:41 PM »
Into the guts of it.


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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #953 on: September 30, 2025, 08:05:42 AM »
Is it damaged? Or just routine freshen up?
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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #954 on: October 01, 2025, 08:57:34 AM »
It's new to me so I wanted to see how it looks inside. New rings coming. Cliff.

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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #955 on: October 07, 2025, 02:10:27 PM »
I finally finished installing the National F-16 windscreen on the 77' KZ 1000 LTD. I needed something to block the wind blast. I like the basic design but the quality control could be better. I knew I would have to alter the mounting slots because of moving the front turn signals from the bars to the headlight mount. I had to open the slots up from 10mm to 15mm. I wasn't happy with the amount of vibration at the top of the windscreen and how easily I could push it back further so I made braces for the upper part.
I used some handlebar clamps from an old busted windscreen, some rubber lined 3/16" P clips and a couple pieces of 3/16" rod. I drilled 4mm holes in the upper part of the windscreen to mount the P clips. With an inch of the rods bent about 110° to fit in the P clips and the bottom goes into the bar clamps. I have used this method for other fork/handlebar mount fairings, it works great.
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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #956 on: October 11, 2025, 10:10:45 AM »
A bit of cleaning and the frame is ready for paint prep and waiting on a friend to go through his Triumph stuff that I can have. This may be a long term project.


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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #957 on: October 13, 2025, 07:41:16 AM »
Cliff….. looking at your photo. Replace the oil pump now?

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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #958 on: October 14, 2025, 06:43:01 AM »
Finished a CB, then found the older "finished" bikes needed a refresh , so CBX on the bench







...Faceplates were $$$, so of course i go an crack one when inserting the needle stop
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Re: What did you do to your non-SOHC4 motorcycle today?
« Reply #959 on: October 14, 2025, 09:37:04 AM »
CBX  8)
75' CB400F/'bunch o' parts'
  I love the small ones too !
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