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Author Topic: '77 CJ360T (Café SOS) - Calling it Done (for now...)  (Read 42472 times)

Offline Sonreir

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #30 on: Dec 01, 2010, 12:24:04 »
My first piece that I can consider "done" with this project! Time to set it aside and finish the other 23,872,234 parts... lol

Foot peg used to be black, of course.



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1977 Honda CJ360 - Café SOS - Stage One™, Café SOS - Stage Two™
1982 Honda CB750C - Project Zoidberg
1963 Yamaha YDS3
1973 Suzuki T500
1982 Yamaha Seca XJ750R

Custom Gauge Graphics
Custom Wiring Harnesses

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.  - Carl Sagan

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whether or not you can never be great at something, you can always become better at it.  -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Basically, it comes down to this, do you know what your doing?  If not, forget about what you want and do what your told (sucks but that's life)  -crazypj

Offline 66replica

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #31 on: Dec 01, 2010, 14:16:04 »
That looks worlds better than mine. Nice job.
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Offline IndieSol

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #32 on: Dec 01, 2010, 15:36:56 »
Looks good.  I'm not sure it makes a difference either way on that grease fitting, unless someone can confirm that greasing liberally with your hands/fingers/some tool before inserting the shaft would be insufficient.  I'm leaving mine just in case.
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Offline Sonreir

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #33 on: Dec 06, 2010, 12:00:15 »
I got a bit more done this weekend, but not as much as I'd hoped. I've finished up the right foot peg and clear coated both the breather cover and the valve covers.  The points cover is now clear-coated as well.



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1977 Honda CJ360 - Café SOS - Stage One™, Café SOS - Stage Two™
1982 Honda CB750C - Project Zoidberg
1963 Yamaha YDS3
1973 Suzuki T500
1982 Yamaha Seca XJ750R

Custom Gauge Graphics
Custom Wiring Harnesses

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.  - Carl Sagan

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whether or not you can never be great at something, you can always become better at it.  -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Basically, it comes down to this, do you know what your doing?  If not, forget about what you want and do what your told (sucks but that's life)  -crazypj

Offline Sonreir

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #34 on: Dec 20, 2010, 12:13:58 »
Sorry for the lack of updates... I've been stuck in the "land of the fruits and nuts" (California) for the past week. Back in Oregon now and I've completed a bit more work. I didn't have time to take a lot of pics, so those will have to come later, but I've disassembled the speedo and started cleaning it up. I've also started stripping the gas tank.

The tank is turning out to be a bit more of a challenge than I originally thought. Not difficult, just time consuming and (literally) a pain in the back. I started off with a wire wheel attached to my angle grinder and that was surprising slow-going. I've just picked up some paint remover and I'm going to give that a try sometime this week.

As for the speedo, the main goal was to get a scan of the gauge onto my PC so I could clean it up and get some digital images of it. Those images will be used for custom printing some vinyls that will go over the original and provide a much better look for my bike. The price per unit gets cheaper the more I print, so lemme know if anyone wants some as well. :D

Anyway... here's some pics of the work on the speedo gauge.

Original Gauge:


Cleaned up stock look:


What's going on my bike:
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1977 Honda CJ360 - Café SOS - Stage One™, Café SOS - Stage Two™
1982 Honda CB750C - Project Zoidberg
1963 Yamaha YDS3
1973 Suzuki T500
1982 Yamaha Seca XJ750R

Custom Gauge Graphics
Custom Wiring Harnesses

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.  - Carl Sagan

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whether or not you can never be great at something, you can always become better at it.  -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Basically, it comes down to this, do you know what your doing?  If not, forget about what you want and do what your told (sucks but that's life)  -crazypj

Offline Sonreir

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #35 on: Jan 10, 2011, 15:01:10 »
OK... I had a few weeks off for the holidays, but it's time to get cracking again.
This last weekend I painted up the outside of my speedo, polished the metal and the plastic, painted and polished up the needle, and installed the new backing graphic.  I'm still waiting on some LEDs from China before I change out the bulb, but I'll post pics of that when I get it working, too.

Also, I have a spare graphic if anyone wants it (I ordered two in case I screwed it up).  Yours for $5.

As you may have noticed, I broke the little knob that sits on the end of the odometer reset thingy.  I'm probably going to end up coating it with some liquid rubber coating stuff. Something like this: http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=39156&catid=699

EDIT:  Something happened to the speedo pics, so I'm just reposting them now.
« Last Edit: Feb 01, 2011, 21:21:08 by Sonreir »
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1977 Honda CJ360 - Café SOS - Stage One™, Café SOS - Stage Two™
1982 Honda CB750C - Project Zoidberg
1963 Yamaha YDS3
1973 Suzuki T500
1982 Yamaha Seca XJ750R

Custom Gauge Graphics
Custom Wiring Harnesses

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.  - Carl Sagan

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whether or not you can never be great at something, you can always become better at it.  -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Basically, it comes down to this, do you know what your doing?  If not, forget about what you want and do what your told (sucks but that's life)  -crazypj

Offline Danish_Cafe

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #36 on: Jan 10, 2011, 15:12:10 »
That speedo is sexy! Great work. 8)
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Offline kookie31

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #37 on: Jan 10, 2011, 17:32:15 »
+1 on the speedo. great job. that looks real nice
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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #38 on: Jan 10, 2011, 17:58:47 »
Dude.. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you're cooking up over there...
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Offline Sonreir

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #39 on: Jan 10, 2011, 18:06:39 »
So am I.  I'll let you guys know as soon as I figure that out... lol...

Seriously though, this is a bike on a budget.  I've budgeted for around three grand for the whole project and my disposable income is only a hundred or two per month so thread is going to be going for a while until I'm done.  I'm also hoping the IRS sends me a fat return this year.  :D

In the mean time, I'm trying to reuse as much as possible and do very little fab work.  I'm hoping I can still come up with something unique and "me" without having to make any sacrifices.  A tall order, I know, but I'm not in any hurry.  I think my speedo is a good example of my build philosophy:  It took me a few hours from start to finish, but materials costs were under 10 bucks.
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1977 Honda CJ360 - Café SOS - Stage One™, Café SOS - Stage Two™
1982 Honda CB750C - Project Zoidberg
1963 Yamaha YDS3
1973 Suzuki T500
1982 Yamaha Seca XJ750R

Custom Gauge Graphics
Custom Wiring Harnesses

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.  - Carl Sagan

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whether or not you can never be great at something, you can always become better at it.  -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Basically, it comes down to this, do you know what your doing?  If not, forget about what you want and do what your told (sucks but that's life)  -crazypj

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #40 on: Jan 10, 2011, 18:27:46 »
Quote from: Sonreir on Jan 10, 2011, 18:06:39
Seriously though, this is a bike on a budget. 


Oh, don't worry.. they already have a place for the people with tons of cash to throw away and no imagination or ingenuity...


https://customizer.harley-davidson.com/GMA_customizer.jsp?locale=en_US&bmLocale=en_US    ;D
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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #41 on: Jan 10, 2011, 18:38:20 »
Quote from: cafematty on Jan 10, 2011, 18:27:46

Oh, don't worry.. they already have a place for the people with tons of cash to throw away and no imagination or ingenuity...


https://customizer.harley-davidson.com/GMA_customizer.jsp?locale=en_US&bmLocale=en_US    ;D

Bahahaha. *sigh*
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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #42 on: Jan 10, 2011, 18:48:10 »
Quote from: cafematty on Jan 10, 2011, 18:27:46

Oh, don't worry.. they already have a place for the people with tons of cash to throw away and no imagination or ingenuity...


https://customizer.harley-davidson.com/GMA_customizer.jsp?locale=en_US&bmLocale=en_US    ;D


That's Good...  My bike night buddies got a real good laugh out of that comment.
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Offline belch_brother

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #43 on: Jan 10, 2011, 20:16:27 »
To me thats like a barbie doll for 'tough' guys. "Hmm what shirt does barbie want to wear today?" Accessorise... hahaha  :o
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Offline IndieSol

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Re: '77 CJ360T Café Build
« Reply #44 on: Jan 11, 2011, 01:05:44 »
That speedo looks great, man.  Good to see someone making some progress.  ;)
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