I've decided to dive in and start building a scrambler that I've been wanting to do for a couple years and have a 1974 CB360 as a canvas. I picked up a KZ400 earlier this week to tinker with over winter. The bike is all original and in pretty good shape, so I didn't want to chop that one up. I was telling my father in law that I picked up the KZ, and he goes "if you want a project bike I have an old CB360 in the barn you can have"The bike was parked in 1985 for no other reason than he didn't feel like riding it anymore, and there it sat until today. The bike was sitting in the bed of a 1969 Chevy pickup, (which will probably be another project down the road), we moved a couple old engines that had piled up over the years, wrapped a chain around the bike, and lifted it out with a skid loader and dropped it into the bed of my truck.
It's pretty much all there. Inside of the tank isn't to bad, the bike is a little rough from sitting in a barn in Iowa for 30 years, but overall not terrible. The motor turns over freely and feels like it has pretty good compression still. I'll be testing compression this week. My gut tells me that I should probably tear the motor apart and rebuild with fresh gaskets and everything, but do you guys think this is necessary?
I'll have the KZ back together this week from replacing a Leakey stator cover gasket, then I plan to start disassembling the CB. Here's a pic of the CB as it looked when we pulled it out, and for good measure a picture of my KZ (and Harley in the background)
It's pretty much all there. Inside of the tank isn't to bad, the bike is a little rough from sitting in a barn in Iowa for 30 years, but overall not terrible. The motor turns over freely and feels like it has pretty good compression still. I'll be testing compression this week. My gut tells me that I should probably tear the motor apart and rebuild with fresh gaskets and everything, but do you guys think this is necessary?
I'll have the KZ back together this week from replacing a Leakey stator cover gasket, then I plan to start disassembling the CB. Here's a pic of the CB as it looked when we pulled it out, and for good measure a picture of my KZ (and Harley in the background)