OK everyone stop panicing OK and move away from the motorcycle
That horrible noise that I thought was my cam chain trying to exit the crankcase via the primary chain turns out to be the only other chain on the bike!?
Yep remember way back when I was #$%*in about the PO swapping side covers and he had left the locating dowels in both the case and the cover?
And remember when I cleverly realigned the drive chain guide as it had been attacked by a snapped chain at some stage?
Well at speed (remember this bike been in shed since I got it in January) the alignment was not as accurate as I hoped ha ha but my bike mechanic fixed that.
He also discovered a few other of my misdemeanors, like the number 2 and 3 plugs were not in tight? I'm sure that was a wee job I gave Jaffa to do!!
On the up side my timing was spot on and he synced the carbs beautifully.
It still sounds like a can of shaken stones until it warms up but he said (and being a genuine Honda trained mechanic I totally believe him) "THEY ALL SOUND LIKE THAT" ha ha ha now where have I heard that before on here???
He found a pair of the genuine front fork reflectors too which was on my shopping list.
I had the carb to head rubbers incorrectly positioned too, I kinda thought that I was clever finding the wee arrow and getting them all around the right way but did you know that there is a small metal arrow on the head ports too and they need to align with the arrow on the rubbers? OK so everyone knew that but me.
There is a very small leak on the number 3 carb rubber and he said just buy one, mate I said if I can find 4 I'm fitting four! do you know how hard it is to get 30 year old rubbers to behave??
So I'm real close to finishing my project and actually riding it full time, I pick it up from the workshop tomorrow (after night shift
) and have it booked in for WOF REG &VIN on Monday morning and apart from finding a few finishing items that should be her complete.
Oh one other piece of luck while I'm writing a book, my mechanic has another customer who rides an ex Police CB360 with all the trimmings and that guy had given my mechanic a wee gift which he passed onto me.
These are copies of the original badges from Ministry of Transport bikes.
My mechanic got them many years ago when he was asked by the MOT to fix a crashed bike and the screen was history so he peeled the transfer off it and kept it for a souvenir.
The 360 guy is a bit up on computer graphics and fixed the rips so I get real badges for my bike ha ha as if it doesn't already stop traffic.
I will post final photos when I get the last bits for the bike, screen etc and tank painted, oh yeah and that first ride video that I promised Kitsune to show her our beautiful country.
