Topic: What did you do to your bike today ?

[Desert-SOHC]

Installed the new +7 clutch cable, its a bit long right now but is within an inch of where it needs to be when she is done. Was going to take a test drive but popped my right knee......no riding for me for a few days! 

[whitjonw]

I mounted the seat latch plate and lock to my 1974 CB750.....!!!

[firebane]

Sourced a inner fender, rear fender and a pre 76 gas tank and petcock. Had to drive 6 hours and visit family but now I can move forward on my bike. Just need a seat or seat pan.

[Terry in Australia]

Well I don't know what's going on, but my stocks of CB750 parts, which have been depleted over the last couple of years are coming back thick and fast! I saw this pile of K1 bits on eBay tonight, the owner has had the K1 engine rebuilt with a big bore kit and a mild cam, so at last I'll be able to build a complete K1 from front to back. (my K1 has been fitted with a K6 engine since I built it all those years ago) Cheers, Terry.

[mrbreeze]

Hella cool Terry!! Looks like it's raining 750's over there lately. Do the pipes look as good on the other side? I'm gonna have to keep track of what you do with this one. All the good parts for your K1 and enough left to build another to flip (or whatever).

[PeWe]

Terry, be careful when mounting the ign wires to the Ultimate coils. Not tighten too much, the threaded things for wires are common screws with small heads that will pop-out from the plastic coil housing if tighten hard with thumb and index finger...
That's why I have Dynatek coils....

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks Fred, those pipes are a mix of HM300 and 341's, so I might need to do a bit of "buy swap and sell to get the remaining HM300's. I was seriously thinking about buying another Harley when I saw this 17 minutes out from end of auction, and as much as I like Harleys, I've wanted a complete "restificated" (an original K1 with a bit of age to it) K1 for a long time, so the Honda won out! That red K0 tank you sent me is gonna look good in pride of place mate! Cheers, Terry.

[Terry in Australia]

Terry, be careful when mounting the ign wires to the Ultimate coils. Not tighten too much, the threaded things for wires are common screws with small heads that will pop-out from the plastic coil housing if tighten hard with thumb and index finger...
That's why I have Dynatek coils....

Hey thanks for the tip Pewe, I'll be careful! (I'll be especially careful to sneak that stuff into my garage without the wife seeing me..........)

[PeWe]

Ha-ha-ha!!! I know exactly about sneeking in parts..... I have a lot of parts going in thru the garage doormy woman has no seen. Good that she sometimes work when UPS arrive with big box from David Silver.
Other packages I fetch from the post office when I have to pay VAT and customs. She has seen that I payed $400-600US in VAT and customs only. She thought it was total.... I let her think that. Its my money I use but... the number of $$$ floating to the bike is like having a hot prostitute beside the wife...

[PeWe]

Pulled engine.... Carbs, Head, cyl, pistons, studs and clutch removed before taking out the engine. Still very heavy.
Typical this part of the year when daylight slowly return to this dark latitude. Things apart in february, work to middle of mars. Everything  to work in the middle of april.

[Desert-SOHC]

Lubed up the new clutch cable and went for a ride........

[evanphi]

Painted my triples and fork clamps. From the build thread...

PAINT!

Both fork holders needed paint after some run-ins with brake fluid.

Cleaned and prepped:


After two coats in the affected areas, then two coats over the whole piece to even out the slight difference in colour, all is hanging until I get to them on my next shop night, to install the bearings.

[spotty]

as i've had no offers of help with sorting the seized (sometimes) kickstart i thought i'd get started on the twin disc conversion. i've gor CB900F forks in stock CB750K6 clamps and i want to use the stock 750 wire wheel so......

got new through bolts (longer) to hold both discs as well as speedo drive - still too short, no matter they'll do for mock up, can get longer ones later. next problem - the thickness of the second disc pushes the speedo drive further out from the hub and therefore the hub is too wide to fit between the fork lowers.

tried several combos of axle, spacers, axle end bolt thingy but every time the result was the same- hub too wide.

the best result i can think of is to ditch the speedo drive completely, make up new spacers for the axle and fit a digital speedo (or maybe GPS speedo)

this also means i can turn the fork lowers round so the calipers will be on the front of the forks which looks better and cools better

i'm not in the slightest bit worried about originality (the frame and engine cases will prob be the only stock bits when i'm finished) so losing the stock speedo (and tacho for that matter) can only make the whole front end look neater and will be combining with the smallest (vaguely) legal headlight and indicators

got to work out how i'm going to mount the digi speedo trigger magnet to the wheel or disc and the reader unit to the forks but i'm waiting a response from someone who's fitted such a thing to the disc on his Vmax, so we shall see (might fit one the Vmax too - can't look any worse than the stock speedo 'pod')

[PeWe]

Lubed up the new clutch cable and went for a ride........

Lubed up the wife and ........ 

[PeWe]

One step futher after work....
I'll open it tomorrow. No bad surprises like damaged crank bearings that have only 5000kms, please....

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

If I was a younger guy I mighta gotten pissed off. This damn close!! #$%*!!



Yeah, 1 link short a chain... One brick shy a load  This is due to the 77/78 CB750F swing arm conversion. That's a damn good chain too    Notice the 'stop' piece for the adjusting bolt to push against in the open ended swing arm which the 75/76 does NOT have. Really only needed a half link to get it to sit down on the sprocket. That's as far forward as it will go. Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

[evanphi]

Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJEJFQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

This is the Diamond Powersports chain that HondaMan recommends. I bought it last year.

[Retro Rocket]

Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJEJFQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

This is the Diamond Powersports chain that HondaMan recommends. I bought it last year.

No where near as strong as a good O,X or Z ring chain, Jerry's bike is just a bit hotter than a stock 750....

[Terry in Australia]

If I was a younger guy I mighta gotten pissed off. This damn close!! #$%*!!



Yeah, 1 link short a chain... One brick shy a load  This is due to the 77/78 CB750F swing arm conversion. That's a damn good chain too    Notice the 'stop' piece for the adjusting bolt to push against in the open ended swing arm which the 75/76 does NOT have. Really only needed a half link to get it to sit down on the sprocket. That's as far forward as it will go. Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

Hey Jerry, is that an RK X Ring chain? I've got a spare 10 links of new chain hanging in my garage from a chain I bought for my GS1000 but ended up putting on my CB750, if you can wait a bit, I can send it across the pond? Cheers, Terry.

[Desert-SOHC]

Lubed up the wife and ........ 

self lubricating, none required

[evanphi]

Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJEJFQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

This is the Diamond Powersports chain that HondaMan recommends. I bought it last year.

No where near as strong as a good O,X or Z ring chain, Jerry's bike is just a bit hotter than a stock 750....

Shouldn't OXZ or standard not matter? Isn't that just a method of trapping lubricant?

[evanphi]

Put in my fork seals.

[Retro Rocket]

Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJEJFQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

This is the Diamond Powersports chain that HondaMan recommends. I bought it last year.

No where near as strong as a good O,X or Z ring chain, Jerry's bike is just a bit hotter than a stock 750....

Shouldn't OXZ or standard not matter? Isn't that just a method of trapping lubricant?

Tensile strength Evan, big differences in strength, that Diamond chain is about 6400 LBS, the better O/X/Z ring chains are up to 11,000 lbs tensile strength, they support up to and over 200HP, far stronger ...

[evanphi]

Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJEJFQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

This is the Diamond Powersports chain that HondaMan recommends. I bought it last year.

No where near as strong as a good O,X or Z ring chain, Jerry's bike is just a bit hotter than a stock 750....

Shouldn't OXZ or standard not matter? Isn't that just a method of trapping lubricant?

Tensile strength Evan, big differences in strength, that Diamond chain is about 6400 LBS, the better O/X/Z ring chains are up to 11,000 lbs tensile strength, they support up to and over 200HP, far stronger ...

Gotcha. I guess like most things the better quality ones can withstand more force.

Why aren't standard roller chains made at higher tensile strength?

[Retro Rocket]

Time to source a strong 104 link 530 chain!! Wondering if I should go 106? Plenty of adjustment room still?? Any suggestions on a good site to look? 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WJEJFQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

This is the Diamond Powersports chain that HondaMan recommends. I bought it last year.

No where near as strong as a good O,X or Z ring chain, Jerry's bike is just a bit hotter than a stock 750....

Shouldn't OXZ or standard not matter? Isn't that just a method of trapping lubricant?

Tensile strength Evan, big differences in strength, that Diamond chain is about 6400 LBS, the better O/X/Z ring chains are up to 11,000 lbs tensile strength, they support up to and over 200HP, far stronger ...

Gotcha. I guess like most things the better quality ones can withstand more force.

Why aren't standard roller chains made at higher tensile strength?

Probably because they are old technology now, O/X/Z rings hold in grease around the moving parts and help keep dirt and grime out, they naturally last longer, you still lube them manually on the outside though, like any other chain..  In the day of the old Honda's, the biggest Japanese bikes were lucky to have 80HP, some now have over 200HP....