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7/7/2025, 5:40:40 AM
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Wrenching on it on the parking pad while listening to 80s music is pure kino. The floor jack in picrel is under a frame crossbar btw.
I've had to do so much solo work, but the guys at the local Honda dealership think it's cool so they offer me technical advice knowing that I try to get some of my parts there. When I started out my brother and my dad had been messing around with it and had installed a battery with reversed terminals. Thankfully the 30A main fuse burnt and saved the electrical system though.
For whatever reason they don't really want to work on it even though it's simpler, but I don't mind saving on the labor. I've had some help from my dad who would stop by every so often too. I've had to replace the fuel cock since my dad left it with a tank full of ethanol gas that ate a 2" brass main/reserve pipe down to under an inch. There's a site called Vintage CB750 that I got a brand new replica one from since it's the same valve. The fork seals were leaking so I replaced those and of course put fresh fork oil in, and the tank had to be de-rusted as best I could manage. I'm not putting a tank liner in it since if you have to put ethanol in every once in a while it will dissolve products like Kreem and clog the carbs and jets. I just keep it topped with ethanol-free supreme and treat it to part of a bottle of Seafoam from time to time.
Fresh plugs, fresh engine oil, fresh transfer case oil, and rear drive oil. Grease in the driveline. Despite what my brother told me about the brakes being better sealed than a car, the brake fluid looked like a debris-filled river in India. I had to put my full weight on the rear brake pedal and jump up and down on it to get the system to pop free and bleed, and even then I wound up having to rebuild the calipers in order for the new shoes to not drag. I've never felt like the bike was going to let me down though, as long as I did the maintenance. For the most part it seems pretty happy.
Wrenching on it on the parking pad while listening to 80s music is pure kino. The floor jack in picrel is under a frame crossbar btw.
I've had to do so much solo work, but the guys at the local Honda dealership think it's cool so they offer me technical advice knowing that I try to get some of my parts there. When I started out my brother and my dad had been messing around with it and had installed a battery with reversed terminals. Thankfully the 30A main fuse burnt and saved the electrical system though.
For whatever reason they don't really want to work on it even though it's simpler, but I don't mind saving on the labor. I've had some help from my dad who would stop by every so often too. I've had to replace the fuel cock since my dad left it with a tank full of ethanol gas that ate a 2" brass main/reserve pipe down to under an inch. There's a site called Vintage CB750 that I got a brand new replica one from since it's the same valve. The fork seals were leaking so I replaced those and of course put fresh fork oil in, and the tank had to be de-rusted as best I could manage. I'm not putting a tank liner in it since if you have to put ethanol in every once in a while it will dissolve products like Kreem and clog the carbs and jets. I just keep it topped with ethanol-free supreme and treat it to part of a bottle of Seafoam from time to time.
Fresh plugs, fresh engine oil, fresh transfer case oil, and rear drive oil. Grease in the driveline. Despite what my brother told me about the brakes being better sealed than a car, the brake fluid looked like a debris-filled river in India. I had to put my full weight on the rear brake pedal and jump up and down on it to get the system to pop free and bleed, and even then I wound up having to rebuild the calipers in order for the new shoes to not drag. I've never felt like the bike was going to let me down though, as long as I did the maintenance. For the most part it seems pretty happy.
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