Inspection.

Torn fork boots. Torn rear fender curtain. Lots of gunk.  Engine cover and wheels need some love.

Wombat Time

 Going to document some ongoing work on a Hodaka Wombat.

She is in nice shape overall, jsut going to do some vapor blasting and cleaning to bring her back up to beautiful. 

Cx500 piston complete

Ok. Got the piston done and it slides in like a glove...well lika a hand in a glove. Anyway, this means the brake system us ready for installation.

CX500C front brake piston

So, what do you do when the front brake piston on your project bike is a pile o corrosion and they don't sell them anymore?  Make your own out of stainless silly!  Yahtzee!  Better then the original chrome plated hunk.

Side job

I got recruited by a friend to rebuild the carbs on his 1979 Suzuki GS425. It was a smooth job with little drama, but I did notice these little baffles on the engine side of the carbs. I am very curious about why the engineers would want to interrupt flow like this. I will have to ask wiser people then I. 

Back together again

So the bolt that was broke was a specialty item called a dowel bolt. And honda is fresh out of them so I made a replacement at work and drilled it for safety wire. Here is a pic of the finished product all patched back together. And then a pic of the engine buttoned up and ready to go back in the bike.

More woes

Replaced the dowel pin on the ignition advance and got the bike running only to hear a noisier then expected clicking from the valves. Bad valve gaps? Lack of lube? Nope. I cracked the valve cover and peaked underneath to discover one of the cam sprocket bolts had broken. Back out the motor comes.