Topic: My 750 f coming together

[fireman1073]

[remcoseegers]

Looks great!

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Great start. If you need any parts I may have you covered.

[kerryb]

Looking great, keep up the progress.

[maxheadflow]

Looks good but you might have issues assembling the fork trees / tubes as it looks like the insides of the fork and stem clamps are powder coated.  The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy. One thing to note on the timken's is that if you don't use a lower spacer under the bearing, the neck might rub the lower tree. I didn't use one on my 78K 750 and had to clearance the  lower tree to keep the 2 from rubbing. I only painted the lower tree so it wasn't much of a problem touching up.

[scottly]

The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy.

Powder coat is normally only .002-.003 thick...

[maxheadflow]

The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy.

Powder coat is normally only .002-.003 thick...

Not where a I get it from.   I generally machine the stuff off on things like forks. It might be as thin as 0.003" on corners but the stuff I've seen is pretty thick on the flats. Touch the tool on the PC and it don't clean up until 0.010 to 0.020 later.  Even if its 0.003" thick it means the gaps on the pinch areas will increase by over 0.009"  If using top pinch washer forks, you'll have problems.

[fireman1073]

Looks good but you might have issues assembling the fork trees / tubes as it looks like the insides of the fork and stem clamps are powder coated.  The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy. One thing to note on the timken's is that if you don't use a lower spacer under the bearing, the neck might rub the lower tree. I didn't use one on my 78K 750 and had to clearance the  lower tree to keep the 2 from rubbing. I only painted the lower tree so it wasn't much of a problem touching up.

good catch but i already removed the coating in them areas

[maxheadflow]

Looks good but you might have issues assembling the fork trees / tubes as it looks like the insides of the fork and stem clamps are powder coated.  The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy. One thing to note on the timken's is that if you don't use a lower spacer under the bearing, the neck might rub the lower tree. I didn't use one on my 78K 750 and had to clearance the  lower tree to keep the 2 from rubbing. I only painted the lower tree so it wasn't much of a problem touching up.

good catch but i already removed the coating in them areas

Since PC can be a PITA to remove, how did you remove it?

[fireman1073]

Looks good but you might have issues assembling the fork trees / tubes as it looks like the insides of the fork and stem clamps are powder coated.  The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy. One thing to note on the timken's is that if you don't use a lower spacer under the bearing, the neck might rub the lower tree. I didn't use one on my 78K 750 and had to clearance the  lower tree to keep the 2 from rubbing. I only painted the lower tree so it wasn't much of a problem touching up.

good catch but i already removed the coating in them areas

just sandpaper thing in a drill you know the round flap thing

Since PC can be a PITA to remove, how did you remove it?

[pjlogue]

Something very gratifying about bolting nice clean shiny things back on the bike.  Your engine looks new as well as all the parts.  NICE JOB!

-P.

[maxheadflow]

Looks good but you might have issues assembling the fork trees / tubes as it looks like the insides of the fork and stem clamps are powder coated.  The PC can be 10 to 20 thou thick easy. One thing to note on the timken's is that if you don't use a lower spacer under the bearing, the neck might rub the lower tree. I didn't use one on my 78K 750 and had to clearance the  lower tree to keep the 2 from rubbing. I only painted the lower tree so it wasn't much of a problem touching up.

good catch but i already removed the coating in them areas

Since PC can be a PITA to remove, how did you remove it?

just sandpaper thing in a drill you know the round flap thing

Know it well.  Thanks for the reply.

[desertrefugee]

That is really looking good.  Makes me look at my '78F and realize just how far I have to go...

Great work.