Posted in adventure on Jun 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Disassembling the CB750 SOHC engine is fairly straight forward; it can loosely be described as “remove all the bolts you can find”. Still, here are some notes. Besides the obvious head nuts, there are some philips screw/head head combos located in the air voids inside the head. All four can be accessed through the rubber [...]
Posted in adventure on May 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Cracked the case. Everything in the engine looks clean and a-ok. Ultimately the problem with the engine turned out to be the #3 piston and cylinder. If you look closely at the pictures you’ll see the rings were frozen and the cylinder has a bit of corrosion on the inside. I think water got in [...]
Posted in adventure on May 27th, 2010 4 Comments »
Pulled the head off, then the cylinder head. Basically all that is left is to crack the case and get the crank and transmission bits out. The pistons look scary, or not, I can’t really tell. For all the crud the walls seem pretty smooth and I didn’t notice any visible scoring. I guess we’ll [...]
Posted in adventure on May 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Got the stubborn bolt off. I whacked the valves to unstick them, put a ratchet on the alternator bolt, and gave it a couple of sharp whacks, and the engine unstuck. This let me rotate the bolt to where I could get to it. Pulled the rockers and cams off uneventfully. 4 of the head [...]