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Offline Hon3ybadger

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17825 on: June 16, 2014, 08:48:10 am »
Today I will hopefully be vinyl wrapping my tank. Saturday I was able to finally get her running and tuned. I love my new dyna coils!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17826 on: June 16, 2014, 11:53:03 am »
Quote from: 70CB750 on June 16, 2014, 05:24:55 am
Quote from: edwardmorris on June 15, 2014, 09:10:02 pm
Finished clear/blue chromate conversion for most of the hardware.



Wow!
Thanks. Takes insanely long and very laborious, but I guess its worth it if preserving originality ;)
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17827 on: June 16, 2014, 12:24:58 pm »
nothing on my bike...but working on a kompresions tester..have a manometer from a ship engine 2 stroke start air pressure..
are i need a kontra valve ,,to hold pressure in the instrument,,,or a small venturi to flat aut the impulses??..like on vaccum gauges
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17828 on: June 16, 2014, 12:56:51 pm »
Freed up my clutch cable. PIA to get it moving and clean oil flushing out the bottom when it was locked up.
Now it's as free as a speedo cable. One of those  things you don't know you have a problem with till it stops working and freaks you out that it might be a major tear down...at least I hope it was just the cable.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17829 on: June 16, 2014, 12:58:26 pm »
Had to replace the EP36 flasher. New last yr took a #$%* last night. Then I test road another bike. Decided I can't let go of my K1.
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Offline Vicman

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17830 on: June 16, 2014, 01:08:31 pm »
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Decided I can't let go of my K1.
Of all the bikes I ever had my 73 was the only one I REALLY wanted back. Luckily 6 years ago my wish became reality and I got the SAME one back. She won't get out of my hands again. ;D
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Offline nccb

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17831 on: June 16, 2014, 02:18:32 pm »
washed mine today.  It was dirty as hell from riding the coast.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17832 on: June 16, 2014, 05:36:28 pm »
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Offline Jerry E.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17833 on: June 16, 2014, 07:07:13 pm »
Installed my custom oil tank, and ran the oil & vent lines. Discovered a design flaw-the vent line for the oil tank won't allow me to use the stock airbox. No clearance between oil tank, and airbox. Bummer- guess I have no choice now but to use the "dreaded" pod filters. Have too much time/money in the oil tank to not use it. Also, ordered a new 4into1 exhaust pipe from Carpy.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17834 on: June 16, 2014, 07:20:57 pm »
Quote from: Jerry E. on June 16, 2014, 07:07:13 pm
Installed my custom oil tank, and ran the oil & vent lines. Discovered a design flaw-the vent line for the oil tank won't allow me to use the stock airbox. No clearance between oil tank, and airbox. Bummer- guess I have no choice now but to use the "dreaded" pod filters. Have too much time/money in the oil tank to not use it. Also, ordered a new 4into1 exhaust pipe from Carpy.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17835 on: June 16, 2014, 08:08:49 pm »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17836 on: June 16, 2014, 08:33:36 pm »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17837 on: June 16, 2014, 11:16:47 pm »
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Offline evanphi

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17838 on: June 17, 2014, 05:04:12 am »
Got my new hard pipe from Slingshot. Braking is much better now...

Now the big question will be if this new pipe stops the front brake dragging and improves my mileage. Bike did seem a bit quicker handling and easier rolling than before.

New Oury grips are awesome too!
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Offline Terry in Australia

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17839 on: June 18, 2014, 01:09:43 am »
Quote from: 70CB750 on June 16, 2014, 05:24:55 am
Quote from: edwardmorris on June 15, 2014, 09:10:02 pm
Finished clear/blue chromate conversion for most of the hardware.



Wow!

Wow +1! I better go over to Ed's thread and see how he did it, I need to do a heap of parts for my K2 resto! Cheers, Terry. ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17840 on: June 18, 2014, 01:16:04 am »
Quote from: Tews19 on June 15, 2014, 04:49:00 pm
Quote from: Terry in Australia on June 15, 2014, 12:39:33 am
Well the weather here is sh1t at the moment, winter has settled over southern Oz like a big wet poop and motivation has reached an all time low, but I'm slowly turning a pile of rusty parts back into a bike. ;D






Terry sweet looking bike. Where did you get the seat and are you looking to sell it?

G'Day mate, thanks for that. I had that seat on my bike (it was a NOS Guiliari when I bought it a couple of years ago) but I sold it to Mike for his Cafe Racer, so I better not sell it to you too! They're a good seat, but $739 for that one on eBay? Ouch! I sold mine to Mike for less than half of that........... ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Offline Sgt.Pinback

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17841 on: June 18, 2014, 02:28:36 am »
That link was for your amusemnet only... no one pays $739.

OK, café racer maker do.



BTW: Does yours still have that little Giuliari flag?

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17842 on: June 18, 2014, 02:40:21 am »
Is this a 73 or 74? Mine was a 74....had same side cover badge.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17843 on: June 18, 2014, 04:38:18 am »
I almost don;t dare telling I bought mine for € 100,-   on  dutch Craigslist   :-X   ::)
It was a bit dirty.



Bought some special cleaner from a local upholstery....



As good as new !



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Offline Jo3f1sh

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17844 on: June 18, 2014, 05:34:37 am »
Managed to remove the 2 stripped bolts holding on my side cover.  :o



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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17845 on: June 18, 2014, 09:39:34 am »
Quote from: Terry in Australia on June 18, 2014, 01:09:43 am
Quote from: 70CB750 on June 16, 2014, 05:24:55 am
Quote from: edwardmorris on June 15, 2014, 09:10:02 pm
Finished clear/blue chromate conversion for most of the hardware.



Wow!

Wow +1! I better go over to Ed's thread and see how he did it, I need to do a heap of parts for my K2 resto! Cheers, Terry. ;D
Thanks Terry! Unfortunately I don't have it documented since I've been doing small chunks over the past few months, but a lot of people have asked about it so I wrote up a summary here

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=126735.msg1565802#msg1565802

hope it helps out.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17846 on: June 18, 2014, 09:42:27 am »
Quote from: Tetter on June 18, 2014, 04:38:18 am
I almost don;t dare telling I bought mine for € 100,-   on  dutch Craigslist   :-X   ::)
It was a bit dirty.



Bought some special cleaner from a local upholstery....



As good as new !


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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17847 on: June 18, 2014, 02:11:07 pm »
Having fun removing parts from a Craigslist 750K2 and xfering them to my K3. Can't wait to get the stock HM341's cleaned up and installed.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17848 on: June 18, 2014, 03:01:04 pm »
Took delivery of this beauty......




Original paint, perfect seat and carbs came in a box!  Have a set of original exhaust that I may put on it.
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Offline Jerilee

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #17849 on: June 18, 2014, 03:04:30 pm »
Put the oil tank in the electrolysis bath, I decided to leave the inside alone for now so I blocked off all the passages and let it float while the process works on it. I'll flip it over to the other side and check it over tonight. I put an old brake drum in as the sacrifice this time, seems to be working about double as well as the smaller ones I'd had before.

I had to clean a spot of the drum off to make a good contact so while I had the grinder out I smoothed out the little flanges on the lower engine mounts, for and since I was in a grinding mood I did the same to the cut frame too... I'm not sure what I'll be doing with the cut frame, but I've been prepping it right along with the one I intend to use for the resto.
I also cleaned up the cuts a bit with the grinder, they were jagged and rusty. I'm sure the PO made some hasty sawzall cuts, they look a little better but aren't even left to right. I'll either figure out some way to restore it, or wield in a loop since it's already been cafe-cut.
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