My Oil pressure light stays on. This is a common fault, the old switch that is actually by your starter cover on the right hand side, is most probably buggered up and the ball check valve is seized, Simply remove and purchase another from Honda. They are still available. But what I do is actually […]
Author Archives: Steve Carpenter
How Can I route my wiring for Clubman handlebars? Well, as you know, the stock bars have the wiring inside the bars and that’s a real pain in the dirt box to pull out, now, you can drill the clubman’s and feed them through, but encase you want to remove the bars, you will be […]
How can I fit my own Front fork seals? Easily, if you have removed your seals, what I would do is go to home Depot, or to your ACE hardware store and buy a 1″7/8″ piece of plumbing plastic pipe about 3 feet in length. Simply drop the seal over the fork tube, then slide […]
What’s the Biggest tire I can use on my 750 Honda? Ok I always run a 110X90X19 on the front and on the rear I run a 130X90X16 or 18″. You have to take into account the stress of the frame when you are in corners etc, as too wide a tire may look cool, […]
This is the NON maintenance battery I use, no more corroded swing arms, as the old battery has a overflow/breather pipe that usually drips onto the swing arm.
Here is a walk through on how to get that bloody thing off.
To fit New fork seals, I use a 2″ piece of Plumbing Pipe from Home depot, and use a rubber mallet, I slide the seal on and then I slide the pipe over fork tube and simply tap the plastic pipe install the seal is snug in its seating, then remove pipe, add snap ring […]
This is how I make sure my intakes are level to fit the carbs, simple but effective.
” What years are the best to Cafe for SOHC?” Well lets see, stay away from the real early years such as Sand-cast and die cast models, you pay a small fortune for the parts and the restorers will be sending you hate mail. Stick with 1973/74/75 and 76 CB750K models, as there are many […]
Not sure if you have run into this problem, but we’ve put a bunch of those old turn signals on a few of the cars we’ve built over the years (Signal Stat, Yankee, etc. . .) Every time I pick one up it never fails that I’ll spend an hour or so with the multi-meter […]