Topic: Honda 1972 CB350 FOUR RESTAURATION (BELGIUM)

[calj737]

run a magnet through your oil and see if its ferrous. You can also squeeze it between your fingers to help determine its composition. May be clutch disc material.

[marting100]

If you are on a budget like I was, I would take the seat apart and see what the pan look like, it might be broken (like mine was) and I was
able to repair it easily, paint it, keep the original foam, buy an new cover and put it on. If repair is not an option, keep searching the Euro web to avoid non-sense shipping charges.
Cheers!
M

[Menno]

Hi, keep a look out on ebay.de
There is a lot of stuff there for your 350. Sometimes also used parts.
Marktplaats.nl of course. Or speurders.nl

[Belgianbastard]

Thanks guys for the support, the little honda's were much easier to work on i guess 
I'm on a budget for the aesthetics, first I want it to ride safely, then spend some money on the aesthetic part next year
Problems that occured this weekend:

1) Clutch handle broke off, I guess previous owner let it fall on the left side ,but I'd like to keep the original left switch, so maybe i can let the clutch handle come seperately from the switch and keep the original switch? Because otherwise i need an aftermarket or expensive switch, and everything electric still works it would be a shame

2) Tachometer background needs to be redone, I'll need to look up how to open and where to find replacing background

3) Opened up the ignition cover, found a lot of white #$%* you find on batteries that were too long inside a device, they told me it's chemical reaction to damp made worse when there is a chemical reaction between steel and alloy. So i hope this is not bad news for my ignition. The bolts are stripped to death, so the previous owner knew something was wrong, but never entered the ignition due to no patience.

4) What is the trick to pull off the brakepedal, without damaging/breaking the spring? It's so tight it can only move up/down some mm's
I'll try to heat up the spring and pull it off with pliers, but want to be able to reuse the spring again if possible. It's only to take out the engine

5) Oil filter front bolt is totally stripped, don't want to damage the head fins with a grinding wheel, so i hope heat and vise-grip will do the thing..



Rusted old bikes are so much fun!! Let's hope the inside of the engine will be in 'good' shape..

[Belgianbastard]

The exams have passed, the weather is nice, perfect timing to finally have the bike totally stripped
The bike is now totally apart so i can start cleaning up all the parts
The frame and fork will be repainted/powercoated, but the rest of the money goes firstly to engine/ignition/... to make it rideable again
So all the parts that are saveable, I would like to recuperate because they're original, and I just don't have the money yet to replace them all
I will certainly have my work on the engine, the inside looks good at first sight, but the outside is terrible, it definitely needs to be cleaned
The spokes aren't that big of a cost so i will replace them, but my rims i'd like to keep another year.

I already brushed them with steelwool 0000 and then with coke and aluminium foil, alot of surface rust disappeared, but now I will need something stronger to clean the deeper rust spots. The bike was in a leak shed, so the bottom side of the rims had a lot of rain drops everytime, so they are much more rusted than the top side of the rims
Anyone has tips to save the look of my rims?
They don't have to blink like new ones, but a bit less rustspots would be nice
I'm afraid if i take harder steelwool, i will just scratch everything up

Thanks in advance, my student budget thanks you!