Big day today. One of the few changes from stock that this bike got was the electronic ignition. Here is one of the Dynatek mini coils mounted. A small bracket had to be fabricated and no one will see these coils or their electronic counterpart hiding beneath the right side cover, but, these bad boys kick some serious spark out and it is set it and forget it. When you have a bunch of old bikes that is a nice feature.
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Ready for take off. If you've done a build or resto you know the feeling. Did I do this, what about that, etc? Screw it, hit the button. She fired right up and was running pretty steady considering the carbs were no where close. Then the heart attack moment, the oil light would not go out.
I cracked the oil filter cover and oil came leaking out so that meant oil was pumping. All kinds of thoughts were racing though my mind including pushing the bike to a far corner to deal with next year, closing the door behind me, and heading to the bar :beer: But, there was one check that had to be made. I removed the reproduction oil pressure sending switch and put the old one on. The new switch had a .25 rating number and the old one had a .3 rating number so I am assuming in some type of metric lingo the .3 is a higher pressure? Anyway, the light went out and it looks like the new switch was bad, Ebay, go figure right?
So, the bike is completely tuned with sycnched carbs and cam chain adjusted. It starts instantly and sounds great. It still needs road testing but the weather here prohibits that. The seat got done today too, one of the tips that came with the seat was to use Saran Wrap to make recovering easier. I don't know but it seemed the same to me, try it and see if it works for you any differently. The original seat had the base pan rotted out and the foam had too much memory for a new cover. I bought a new seat but that didn't have the Honda emblem so a new cover with the emblem was put on a new seat. If I had paid that much attention to my ex wife I might have some decent coin left, nah, on second hand, worth every dime. You know what they say about divorce. The only reason it is expensive is because it is worth it :twothumbs:
And that leaves us here, close to finish. Still need to do some minor mods like adjust the seat, install decals, and go over everything. The plan is to register the bike this week and maybe get some road testing in. I won't ride it in the garbage melting snow crap we have now so that may get put off a week. I'll post some final pics and details after that.
