Found a 'little' Honda project.

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  1. exuptoy

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    Just agreed to purchase this barge.

    The pic is as it was found following being left there for best part of 12-18 months!!!! Does that still make if a barn find??? Freed off the brakes today so at least it rolls, collecting it next weekend.

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    Don't look too bad tbh :) happy days...

    My dad had one when they first came out. Was mega back then
     
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    Silky smooth bikes in their day........ nice find
     
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  4. exuptoy

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    May not be AS silky smooth now, theres 64k showing on the clocks!!! Haha.
    That said, the previous owner was using it for a european tour bike for his company so it's had a little bit of TLC throughout it's life. Owner reckons it has the dreaded timing chain rattle and the valve stem oil seals are tired, but it's all there and even the caliper bolts were covered in copper slip and came out in seconds. The plastics aren't even damaged! Lets hope it's worth while bringing back to life, as I quite fancy a touring machine!:D
     
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    keep us all posted on the revive.......or worst re valve !
     
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  6. exuptoy

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    Haha, will do.:cool:

    First things first get it home, rip off the calipers and service or overhaul them, service or overhaul the front master, lift off the top yoke, remove the ignition barrel and free up the ignition (it did turn for me to get off the steering lock but it's now stuck). Then stick on a new battery and try and fire it up.

    I'll report back after next weekend.;)
     
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    was it just left open ?? no cover......plastics have worn well.....?
     
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    Yep, as it is in the pic. It'll take some work, but I think I may have caught it in time.
     
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    Think I should be glad it has so much plastic to cover the mild steel frame. Haha[​IMG]
     
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    My dads got one in his garden, he seized it up going down to Somerset, lack of oil !!!
     
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  11. Repsol Rob

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    There you go..... Loads of spares !
     
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    Got it home this morning and stripped off the plastics. It has a few broken tabs and even with a fully charged battery there was no ignition lights etc.

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    The PO said there was some remote start alarm on it and a load of neon lighting inside the fairings so I had to cut out all this shit!!!

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    A few minor repairs where I had cut stuff out and I checked the 30A starter fuse and found it popped. Replaced it with another and I had lights.
    I verified I had fuel and sparks then manually operated the choke under the tank and finally it started chugging away.
    Ran it for a bit and it starts on the button now. Just to sort the fork seals and calipers and it should be good to try out. Quite pleased really.

    Watch “CBR1000F first start after purchase.” on Vimeo:

    :cool:
     
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    hell of a bike, good weather protection from the plastics,,for the bike I mean
     
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    Engine sounds good on the video, Nice project bike and looking forward to updates.
     
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  16. exuptoy

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    Cheers guys. I'll update as I do anything.:)
     
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    What size caravan are you towing with it? Back in the day when these came out that was one of the more polite jokes.:D:D
     
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    Ouch. That hurt!:p

    Haha.
     
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    Removed the nearside front caliper today and tried to blow out the pistons using compressed air but one was permanently stuck. Ended up putting it back on the bike and using hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder to force it out whilst clamping the free one back. Worked just fine so cleaned up the pistons whilst out and lubed the existing seals with ACF-50 then pushed the pistons back in.
    Same tomorrow on the other front caliper and maybe the rear if I have time.

    No pics today as I didn't think. Maybe grab a few tomorrow.

    I'll purchase new caliper seals (£45.50 for original ones) but the pistons look just fine so they'll get re-used. Hopefully the only costs involved will be caliper and fork seals (£60 for new genuine fork seals and bushes), fork oil £10 and engine oil and filter (£6 for the filter and I have the oil here) before it goes for it's MOT. The only other costs will be a recover on the seat (£65 with Digger) and maybe new old stock footrests from David Silver Honda £65. That'll be around £450 all in all being well. That's a cheap bike in my book if everything goes to plan. :)
     
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    I managed to find a matching Bridgestone BT023 rear tyre part worn with 5mm, 2.5 and 5mm on it for £24 inc delivery!!!! which arrived yesterday and I found a brand new RK 530-114 O-ring chain in it's box in the garage from some shop clearance some time ago which believe it or not is the correct chain so I fitted that yesterday. So it's coming along nicely.

    Back offshore for a couple of weeks so thats it for the moment.

    From this...
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    to this...
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    ....then I cleaned up the end of the cans and etch primed then satin blacked them.
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