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Offline BenelliSEI

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Re: Another K0 build for/by Magpie/Cliff
« Reply #100 on: August 19, 2022, 04:34:01 pm »
Oops! Your post appeared while I was keying mine.....

Congrats! Looks fantastic!

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Re: Another K0 build for/by Magpie/Cliff
« Reply #101 on: August 19, 2022, 07:03:15 pm »
Beautiful bike, well worth the effort, these bikes can try one’s patience
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Re: Another K0 build for/by Magpie/Cliff
« Reply #102 on: August 19, 2022, 07:56:05 pm »
Thanks guys. Yes it was a test of patience indeed. I had to walk away and sleep on it. The frame was powder coated so the holes were tight and needed reaming out. I mounted 1 and 2 and they were close to lining up. Manipulating the 2 pipes a bit I could get the threads in the hole by kind of screwing it in. I resorted to some persuasion with a 2 lb. sledge and a drift. When there was enough threads showing I put a nut on it and pulled it through that way. 3 and 4, after sleeping on it, I went back to the instructions, translated from Japanese, which said to swing 3 out, put the bolt in it and swing it back in to get the bolt in the hole which worked. It didn't work last night. I held the pipe in place and added 4 and pushed the bolt through. This time it went in and again a little persuasion and it went through. Same drill with the nut. God help me if I have to take them off!
They do look nice.
This bike is kind of an homage to one I crashed and destroyed putting it into the driver's door of a car that ran a stop sign. Purchased the bike July 1969, killed it August 1969. Probably a sandcast.

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Re: Another K0 build for/by Magpie/Cliff
« Reply #103 on: August 19, 2022, 09:14:23 pm »
I used to work for a guy that always concluded; “if this was simple, anyone could do it!”. Well done.

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Re: Another K0 build for/by Magpie/Cliff
« Reply #104 on: August 20, 2022, 03:21:52 am »
Cliff
Have you read this post on fitting the repop pipes making a pipe sleeve to go in the cross over tubes to help line the 2 pipes up?

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,126176.0.html
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My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and missed it greatly.....
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Re: Another K0 build for/by Magpie/Cliff
« Reply #105 on: August 20, 2022, 08:45:08 am »
Metal crossover tubes come with the David Silvers repop pipes. The pipes come in a Yamiya box. They do help keeping things lined up, just don't forget to install them before mounting the pipes.
Cliff.