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Adnoh
Feel the Power
Joined: Oct 28, 2012
Posts: 584
Location: Ireland
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:29 am |
 
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Hello one and all. Just a line to introduce myself and line you up for the hard questions ahead.
Bless me father for I have sinned.  It has been some 30 odd years since I last owned a motorcycle. I am now on my fourth mid-life crisis and have purchased a 1979 Honda CB750K which is in a clean condition but runs, (just), with the hammering of the Devil coming from the bowels of the engine. For penitence, I will make good and strip the beast to its component parts. 
With a good wind and an awful lot of help/advice I hope to start the restoration in the next couple of months and I am also contemplating documenting the process as I go, so any advice before I start would be much appreciated.
Before I do start I am sorting out my tools and workshop and my first question relates to Torque Wrenches. My Haynes manual states that I should be tightening nuts/bolts/fastening to between 2.5 and 72 lbf ft. but when I look at buying wrenches they don't seem to cover the whole range and the difference in price between makes is vast. Any help would be appreciated.[img][/img][img][/img] |
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1981 registered 1979 Honda CB750K
1998 Honda PC800.... Now sold, Couldn\\\'t do with all that plastic.
1983 Honda CB750F. Newly restored [URL=http://s1288.photobucket.com/user/adnoh750/media/pic125_zps69808568.jpg.html][img]http://i1288.photobuc |
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Frank
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Joined: Feb 27, 2010
Posts: 14379
Location: Eufaula, Oklahoma
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:09 am |
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It's harder to break big bolts than little ones. The wrench at the lower end will get the most use. Here in the states most auto parts stores have loaner tool programs? |
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You meet the nicest people on a Honda I sold my bike but I still have a 750 and a 900 that I will fix up some day. Right now I´m learning about Goldwings |
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pd750
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Joined: Aug 01, 2007
Posts: 25126
Location: Waldron , Arkansas
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:56 am |
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Welcome to the site Adnoh ...  |
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Please put the year and model of your bike in the signature section on your profile / member account page and set \"Always attach signature \" to YES . Just below the Reply box , check the box in front of \"Attach signature (signatures can be changed in profile)\" .
1982 CB750C (Sold) Haven\'t found another , yet . |
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holysmokes
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Joined: Jul 25, 2007
Posts: 37017
Location: ridge road springfield nova scotia
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:16 pm |
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we supply a free honda manual in our tech docs section
the clymer and haynes are a novel of fiction
ebay is your best bet for tools |
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On a steel horse i ride
People are just as happy as they make up their
minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln
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04 vl800
09 50 honda jazz
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