Old Enough To Remember?
- Thread starter Shuey
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OK, I'm a bit surprised no comments.... on your older 70's-80's Hondas the cam bearing clearances were kinda intentionally sloppy on some models, e.g., CB750 and Magnas. So you used this little tool to push the cam to the top of the clearance, then take a feeler gauge reading......
Mine has only been used a couple of times. I see you can still get one from Partzilla for ~$60.
Mine has only been used a couple of times. I see you can still get one from Partzilla for ~$60.
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STFlips
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I have a 70’s CB and never see that tool, but guess I’m not much of a mechanic, lol.
You could have one with the hydraulic lifters??? Just look in your service manual.........
1973
Great bike. It single handily put me out of business, but no hard feelings.
Great bike. It single handily put me out of business, but no hard feelings.
OK, I'm a bit surprised no comments.... on your older 70's-80's Hondas the cam bearing clearances were kinda intentionally sloppy on some models, e.g., CB750 and Magnas. So you used this little tool to push the cam to the top of the clearance, then take a feeler gauge reading......
Mine has only been used a couple of times. I see you can still get one from Partzilla for ~$60.
Have one downstairs in the toolbox,....had an '84 V65 Sabre.
A better solution I found was taking the heads off and lapping the cam holders on a granite plate with fine sandpaper until I got a uniform .002" clearance on the journals. Fair bit of work but I got a better result and I didn't have to use the tool.
What else am I gonna do?.........long winters in Canada!
scootac
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Or the potato in the exhaust pipe that I never got around to trying
So what are these?
rtbmrgl
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.They were cool, put caps in them and toss in the air, cap explode when they hit the ground. The ones I had used paper caps.
Ah yes rich kids toys....we had a willow y crotch cut inner tube strips and rocks.....
rtbmrgl
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Lionel ZW Transformer. I got it when I was 5yo, 1958.
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scootac
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Dad had one very similiar!Lionel ZW Transformer. I got it when I was 5yo, 1958.
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Can still remember the smell it would make. Don't know if sister has it, or what became of it.
Lawn darts with caps. Each little cup has a tiny explosive in it.
We had cap guns that used the same cup caps.
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Shuey
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Ribbon candy that was all stuck together and probably like nine years old!
Conbo chair and step-stool, probably in the kitchen.
Shuey
Uncle Phil
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Still have a combo chair out in my workshop!
Conbo chair and step-stool, probably in the kitchen.
Shuey
rtbmrgl
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Still have my Thimble Drone Prop Rod. My Dad tied a metal cable to a big pice of channel iron and attached to the car, it went around in circles till it ran out of fuel. The engineer across the street calculated the speed, using time and radius. If I remember he said 60mph, but maybe he wanted me to think is was a speed demon.
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