Topic: Oh dear ...

[69cb750]

Nippon Denso points plate
These plates were made after production ended
Plate and points have ND

[69cb750]

Futaba points plate
Toyo and Hitachi supplied original points plates, Futaba was an aftermarket supplier of points plates, made in Japan
Plate stamped "few"

[Stev-o]

Toyo points plate
Most CB750's came with Toyo points plate (a few came with Hitachi)
Plate stamped Tec
Top slot longer then bottom slots

Good info, seems a lot of discussion lately about aftermarket points/condensers.  I have a couple of plate assemblies on the shelf I need to I.D.

This info should be made into it's own thread and kept as a "Sticky".  Would you mind starting a new thread with all that info? Or, I could...    Thanks

[69cb750]

Reaming rocker arm shaft holes.
The head sat on a workbench in a Nebraska barn for 62 years, there was oxidation.

[69cb750]

Rocker arms

[grcamna2]

Yes.
You're doing nice restoration on this square four.

[69cb750]

I found this rotor on usa ebay.
Rotor and box are old, perhaps 1950's

[69cb750]

CB750 exhaust baffles

[69cb750]

[grcamna2]

New mufflers on your Ariel ??

[69cb750]

New mufflers on your Ariel ??

The seller installed new mufflers, I imagine original mufflers were in sad shape.
During installation I noticed these are "fake mufflers", nothing inside.
I measured muffler id, baffle od, this might work and it did.

[BenelliSEI]

New mufflers on your Ariel ??

The seller installed new mufflers, I imagine original mufflers were in sad shape.
During installation I noticed these are "fake mufflers", nothing inside.
I measured muffler id, baffle od, this might work and it did.

Slick installation! I’m sure there is at least one Honda cb750 part on every “other” motorcycle I have ever owned. The Benelli had a lot….. Note the turn signals and stems. I eventually found a set of Moto Guzzi lights that matched the originals, but the stems stayed on the bike.

[grcamna2]

New mufflers on your Ariel ??

The seller installed new mufflers, I imagine original mufflers were in sad shape.
During installation I noticed these are "fake mufflers", nothing inside.
I measured muffler id, baffle od, this might work and it did.

I see 

[Kelly E]

New mufflers on your Ariel ??

The seller installed new mufflers, I imagine original mufflers were in sad shape.
During installation I noticed these are "fake mufflers", nothing inside.
I measured muffler id, baffle od, this might work and it did.

Slick installation! I’m sure there is at least one Honda cb750 part on every “other” motorcycle I have ever owned. The Benelli had a lot….. Note the turn signals and stems. I eventually found a set of Moto Guzzi lights that matched the originals, but the stems stayed on the bike.

I put a Honda bolt somewhere on every non Honda bike we've resurrected except for the 64' Norton 750 Atlas. I even put one on the 90' Moto Guzzi 1000 Le Mans. We had to completely remove the stock linked brake system so it's already altered. Every time we asked the Guzzi expert about fixing the brakes his answer was "delink it" so we did.
I have a container full of Honda bolts after replacing bolts with stainless bolts and parting a few bikes so I can usually find one that will work somewhere.  I guess I'm just a rebel.

[69cb750]

Every time we asked the Guzzi expert about fixing the brakes his answer was "delink it" so we did.

Did brake lever control front and rear brakes ?

[BenelliSEI]

Every time we asked the Guzzi expert about fixing the brakes his answer was "delink it" so we did.

Did brake lever control front and rear brakes ?

On the Honda Varadero both the rear pedal and the front lever operate both ends! It gets criticized when in loose sand, but works so well everywhere else I just left it alone. Combined with excellent ABS, it stops the bike in astoundingly short distances…..the brake bleeding sequence is complicated (there are about six different places to bleed it)!

[Kelly E]

Every time we asked the Guzzi expert about fixing the brakes his answer was "delink it" so we did.

Did brake lever control front and rear brakes ?

The front brake lever worked one front caliper. The rear pedal worked the other front caliper and the rear caliper. There's a proportion valve that controls the front/rear bias. The proportion valve tends to corrode inside and will reduce fluid pressure down to almost nothing.
When I tested it I coasted down towards the shop from the house. I was standing on the rear brake pedal and it didn't slow down at all. The proportion valve was plugged with corrosion.

We junked the proportion valve and had to replace the front master cylinder with a different bore size for dual calipers and the rear master cylinder with a bore for a single caliper. Then we got all new lines because the lengths had changed and rebuilt all three calipers.
A bike with Brembo brakes should stop good and now it does.

[69cb750]

I go back to the way it was which is easy to do.
I see a Nebraska farmer riding his four cylinder motorcycle down narrow roads with tall corn fields on both sides.
I see the bike parked at the farmers house.
Bike is together, thanks for coming along on my adventure, I will report what the bike is like to ride in the spring.

[grcamna2]

I go back to the way it was which is easy to do.
I see a Nebraska farmer riding his four cylinder motorcycle down narrow roads with tall corn fields on both sides.
I see the bike parked at the farmers house.
Bike is together, thanks for coming along on my adventure, I will report what the bike is like to ride in the spring.

How long was Dalio's in business ?

[69cb750]

How long was Dalio's in business ?

My guess is they sold British bikes in the 50's 60's early 70's and closed between 75 and 80 when Japanese bikes became popular.

[69cb750]

Can anyone fix this?

[69cb750]

[69cb750]

I'm going back to the way it was ...
- January book review -
A chap in the UK has collected personal motorcycle stories and photos from the 60's and 70's from around the world, civilized and third and created a book "The lost biker stories".
I have a lot of nice motorcycle books but nothing like this.
Many of the stores are wild -
"We all slept on the floor of the barn, our bikes parked outside, bonfires in the field."
"Sitting around singing, drinking, hanging out"
"We would hang onto a long rope as a tractor dragged us around the field".
Stories of rain, snow, cold weather.
I once slept in the garage of a police station in Canada.
Many years later I rode my CB750 from Michigan to Seattle on US2 with friends.
We stayed at Glacier national park one night, it was 70 when we set up our tent.
Next morning I looked out of the tent, that looks like snow, it was, 6" in August.
Around noon the snow started to melt, left at 3pm and 40 degrees.
Escaped the park, 65 degrees on the other side, warm and sunny, had a nice take out dinner sitting on a park bench.

https://www.thelibertatia.com/pages/the-lost-biker-stories

[Don R]

 That book looks like a good read, most of us have a lost biker story worth telling.

[BenelliSEI]

That book looks like a good read!