Posted in adventure on May 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Got the valve cover off to realize that the engine seized in the most inconvenient place, with one of the crankshaft sprocket bolts directly down where it is difficult to fit a wrench. I’ll have to get a slim little wrench, or grind one down aaron-style, or figure something out. A SK 15 degree offset [...]
Posted in adventure on May 24th, 2010 9 Comments »
By the time we were at breakfast, Victoria and I were already late to the offroad thing, and we had the car not the Jeep. I kind of wanted to do something with her that wasn’t the same-old, so we drove up to Vancouver and I dropped in on some old friends of mine that [...]
Posted in adventure on May 20th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been swamped this week, but I got the parts washer put together with 9 gallons of diesel today. Various bits of the motorcycle are soaking in it now. I haven’t cracked the engine or the carbs, yet. I am studying the service manual, planning the attack.
Posted in adventure on May 19th, 2010 1 Comment »
Redcar recently turned over 250,000 miles!
Posted in adventure on May 17th, 2010 4 Comments »
Posted in adventure on May 17th, 2010 3 Comments »
After wasting all of Sunday morning, I finally went outside, saw how gorgeous it was, and realized I would be a fool if I didn’t take advantage. A short debate of bicycle vs. motorcycle ended in me putting on my riding gear and grabbing the key to the SV. I left at 1 PM, and [...]
Posted in adventure on May 16th, 2010 6 Comments »
I slabbed I-5 down to Eugene yesterday, and then cut across to Florence OR via Hwy-126 (which is a pretty ride). Florence has some nice beaches, and I got a cheap hotel room and sat on the beach until I got hungry and headed off into town for Dinner. BJ’s ice cream leads to the [...]
Posted in adventure on May 12th, 2010 5 Comments »
The Duc was grinding the rear brakes by Sunday, so I dropped it off at the shop and picked up some pads on Tuesday from east-side. Didn’t manage to get them in until tonight. The Brembo calipers are simple and well thought out, although I had to bang my pin out (yes I removed the [...]
Posted in adventure on May 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
It’s all true. With some handy help from Victoria, the CB750 engine is out. It did manage to piss a bit of oil everywhere, but, what can you do. It came out fairly easily; thanks to R for the trick to tip the bike over and just lift the frame off. Now the real work [...]
Posted in adventure on May 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Pulled the rear tire, oil tank, carb rack, and prepped the engine for removal (got all the bolts out, tach cable, brackets, etc). The clutch wire needs to be dealt with and then it’s ready to tip over and pop the engine out. The intakes of #2, #3 especially and also #4 are crusted up [...]