Topic: I've been K0'd!

[Don R]

 Hi Larry, it's good to hear from you too.

[Don R]

 While reading the tips and tricks section on double disc brakes, I read that the K0's have longer rotor bolts to fit the thicker early hub. My K0 has Lesters on it so it's hard to know if it has the correct longer bolts. That began an inventory of the rotor bolt box. I found 5 of the longer ones, 5 sets of short ones and one and a half sets of long 5/16" ones for double discs. Somewhere here there's one more early bolt. It also still needs the lock tabs for the nuts.

[Don R]

  The Lester mag did have the 6 long bolts for the rotor, so I'm good on that bike but still missing one long K0 bolt for that set.
  1971 K0 report,
   I just bought a K0 front wheel from Mr. Monkeyclaw on ebay. It has some rust on the rim but has the K0 hub, nice looking spokes, early speedometer drive and non-tapered sandcast type rotor.  Complete with an old tire and axle. With tax and shipping it topped out about $210 which I thought was OK since it has all of the aforementioned parts.  It's hard to believe that they didn't blow it apart and sell it all in pieces. Maybe their business plan has changed a bit.
   I saw their young buyer at the Chief Blackhawk swap meet in Davenport Ia. I was priced too high for their program, but their trailer was already over half full. I like that they are auctioning off whole bikes too. Once upon a time, I bought a set of Yamiya 4-4 no no.'s from Mach IV motors who I believe is also them, as well as Mr. C. They weren't pleased with the $1200 price but honored the sale. 
  I also found a sweet unicorn triple tree in amazingly unbroken condition at the swap meet. I don't have K0 gauges for it but do have enough K1's to build a set. 

[Don R]

  The Mr. Monkeyclaw K0 wheel is really nice, some rust on the bead sides, I imagine a dog or some mice peeing on it.  A true K0 piece.
  Some bikes must die, so others can live.

[Don R]

 I rode the diecast today, it made me smell like gas and oil. I must have added too much synthetic 2 stroke oil to protect the gas tank.
 I'm taking the Lester mags off and putting new did rims on K0 hubs. I finally used that 2 hole hub and wide front hub I've had for years. I bought the rims one at a time during covid (they were hard to find) and recently got tires mounted. I did use newer looking Bridgestone BT 46 tires.

  I've been collecting parts forever so #4 is getting a complete sandcast type front end, there's a bare but titled K0 frame for $800 over in Indianapolis, it's really close in number to my Diecast. It has no engine with it but would be worth more restored than this late K0 with a k1 title. I still have 2 blank number pad engines, one has sandcast guts inside.

[Don R]

 #4 got a Tokiko #2 caliper and a good master cylinder. It has a k1 seat, I need to build a K0 seat from the pan and cover I have and swap this one to the shelf. I need one solid chain adjuster, along the way I had a bike with one of each types. The later K7 F2 and A ones are solid, but too narrow.

[HondaMan]

You have an amazing parts supply!
I think I'm jealous...

[Don R]

 If I had a barn out back, there would be an indoor junkyard. I got a few parts bikes along the way, five from one guy, three from another, I think three and parts from my brother, One here, one there. I regret everything I ever sold but need to move a few more. I still have ten. Two are incomplete, this K0 and a K3.

[69cb750]

You have an amazing parts supply!
I think I'm jealous...

Yes, me too.
I bought two parts bikes for $500 in 2019, fantastic deal, wish there were more.

[Don R]

 I got a 750A and a 2 stroke twin that were left in a backyard for $50 delivered. The guy just wanted them off of his trailer.

[Don R]

 I dug through my controls tote and between my old stuff and swap meet gold, was able to assemble
 a full set of correct left and right K0 controls, the right is even for the single cable throttle. Now I have the Hondaman supplied handlebars and a nice unbroken unicorn top triple, the Tokiko #2 caliper repro fork tubes and original K0 front wheel. This sucker is getting more complete all the time.

[Don R]

 Apparently, this bike had a 900 kit in it, the motor has a little rust, mostly in #1 cylinder. I'll likely return it to stock for sale reasons and keep the big bore kit just in case it's usable.

[grcamna2]

I dug through my controls tote and between my old stuff and swap meet gold, was able to assemble
 a full set of correct left and right K0 controls, the right is even for the single cable throttle. Now I have the Hondaman supplied handlebars and a nice unbroken unicorn top triple, the Tokiko #2 caliper repro fork tubes and original K0 front wheel. This sucker is getting more complete all the time.

Good on you for finding K0 handle switches 

[Don R]

I dug through my controls tote and between my old stuff and swap meet gold, was able to assemble
 a full set of correct left and right K0 controls, the right is even for the single cable throttle. Now I have the Hondaman supplied handlebars and a nice unbroken unicorn top triple, the Tokiko #2 caliper repro fork tubes and original K0 front wheel. This sucker is getting more complete all the time.

Good on you for finding K0 handle switches 

 I go to the Chief Blackhawk swap meet in Davenport Ia. when I can and always go to my friend Dick's space first. He usually has a few tidbits of K0 stuff, I found bagged switch parts there.  The first year that I was there he had a dozen or so toolkits. I should have bought them all.

[Don R]

  The K0 swingarm and axle adjusters arrived from mr. monkeyclaw, mr C's parts or whatever off of Ebay. The swingarm is pretty decent for $70 and the chrome on the adjusters is really good.
  The engine is another matter, the interior is pretty dried up and there is a lot of varnish on everything. I may just clean the cases and swap in most of the internals from a different engine.

[Don R]

 I got the trans mainshaft removed from the clutch. This is the first clutch I've had that still had the K0 clutch ring on it. The frictions are trashed, I soaked the steels to see if they will clean up. In the past an orbital sander has worked on them with good results.
 My 5 gallon bucket of PB blaster solvent will get a test. so far so good. I soaked the bad oil pump parts to see if there are any parts to salvage. I had one before with a different part of the casting broken so maybe I can re-use this one to make one more good pump.

[Don R]

 It got up to a balmy 20 degrees F today, so I took the engine case, and cylinder to the car wash. I forgot the head. I'm inside now with dry socks and sweat pants warming back up. I was able to pressure wash the oil galleries and get it 80% clean. It appears to have some Permatex on the cases but the mud and tar mostly came off the outside and the whatever was in there is mostly clean now.
 I'm not afraid to use my $80 bucket of parts cleaner now without ruining it on one job.
 The head was mildly ported but sustained a chipped intake on #3. It has no valve seals on the exhaust side indicating it's early and it had stock valves.

[grcamna2]

It got up to a balmy 20 degrees F today, so I took the engine case, and cylinder to the car wash. I forgot the head. I'm inside now with dry socks and sweat pants warming back up. I was able to pressure wash the oil galleries and get it 80% clean. It appears to have some Permatex on the cases but the mud and tar mostly came off the outside and the whatever was in there is mostly clean now.
 I'm not afraid to use my $80 bucket of parts cleaner now without ruining it on one job.
 The head was mildly ported but sustained a chipped intake on #3. It has no valve seals on the exhaust side indicating it's early and it had stock valves.

I remember taking two engines to an independent do-it-yourself sprayer car wash with good pressure;I had the car in the bay and pulled the engines out of the trunk,along with the can of foaming Gunk and a brush which I got real busy with fast. I was able to throw away the Gunk can and hide the brush in my car trunk before the guy came out.
I was in there for about 20 minutes and the owner/attendant came to 'check up on me' and caught me washing the two engines;the man had a 'fit' about it. 

[Don R]

 I can see where the car wash guy might get ouchy about a bunch of grease like the semi's leave in the truck bay. We don't really make a big mess though, I think the bay was cleaner when I left.
 Besides, I saw the guy leaving before I backed into the bay. L0L.

[grcamna2]

I can see where the car wash guy might get ouchy about a bunch of grease like the semi's leave in the truck bay. We don't really make a big mess though, I think the bay was cleaner when I left.
 Besides, I saw the guy leaving before I backed into the bay. L0L.

The place that I went to,the guy was upset because I was taking too long;he was hoping to get more customers in that bay and thought I was causing him to lose business.
I found a bigger place to go(Greensburg,Pa.)after that;he had a legitimate gripe because it was a small place on a country road,local people and only had 3 bays and the weather was supposed to get icy that night..
I don't want to be near stressed-out folks anyway.

[Mikey G.]

I'm lucky enough that there's a place near me that's almost fully automated- it even advertises there's no time limit.  10 bucks, and if the sprayer times out, you just hit the button again and keep going.

Did my engine cases and hit the Jeep too while I was at it.   

[Don R]

 I'd do the 10 buck no limit wash, my truck would have gotten washed too.

 I'm still cleaning the cases and preparing to move all of the internals from another engine to this crankcase. I'm going to clean a sweet set of rods and check the bearings after getting the main bearings plasti-gauged. I got a low mile oil pump and another transmission set aside.

[grcamna2]

I'd do the 10 buck no limit wash, my truck would have gotten washed too.

 I'm still cleaning the cases and preparing to move all of the internals from another engine to this crankcase. I'm going to clean a sweet set of rods and check the bearings after getting the main bearings plasti-gauged. I got a low mile oil pump and another transmission set aside.

Do you use a pressure washer to clean greasy engines before disassembly sometimes ?

[BenelliSEI]

I have an old Honda pressure washer that puts a car wash to shame. Hooked up to a hot water tap, it works miracles. I have an old sheet of 1/2” plywood that must go under the parts or the grass, weeds and mud goes everywhere! Any small parts get screwed to the wood first.

[Don R]

 I've toyed with the idea of a hot water tap, maybe a pair of ball valves to switch back and forth from cold to hot.  The best idea would be a wall hydrant for each, that way I wouldn't need to run pipe from the crawl space into the kitchen sink cabinet and back down.
 I have washed them before disassembly but I'm trying to not re-enact my hernia so I put this one on the bike lift with my chain hoist and took it apart there. Sometimes I just work on the floor for the sake of getting the exercise.