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All looks good.
Wheel rims can be a real pain when they haven't been cleaned for years, left out in all weathers and the brake dust/water mix has eaten well into alloy.
Even with a proper polisher and narrow sisal wheels it takes a while.
Top engine mount looks good, did you use 1/4" plate or...
Yeah, right. fitting two stroke carbs to a four stroke is easy.
They have completely different fuel requirements so 'jetting' where you just unscrew one and fit another is easy.
Getting fuel delivery right with the wrong parts, not so much.
I ended up making emulsion tubes and buying new slides...
That's because they are spindly.
You need a fork brace or they twist like pretzels.
Many people fit 35mm forks from larger Honda's as that's easiest thing to do.
USD forks from late models look way too big being 50mm+ which makes everything else look skinny plus fitting stock wheels becomes way...
Just keep sanding. It's dirty work.
If you could find someone to bead blast them it would be much quicker and easier but you would almost certainly need new bearings
Glad your OK and not called up for military duty (yet?)
If you found any 'shiny bits' in oil pump pick up screen it's best to take it apart to check.
If it's low mileage (almost all are) just put some oil in one port and rotate by hand to make sure it comes out the other side
You can DIY the guide but it's going to need reaming to size after fitting plus valve seat will need to be cut.
You use a piloted drift, slightly under diameter of guide with pilot same diameter as valve stem.
The spring seat actually slides over top of guide
Unless shop is familiar with...
Use the stock plastic piece, it fits and looks better. Otherwise, pretty sure you'll have to modify something designed for a wider tyre unless one of the modern 250/300 bikes have one?
Pretty out of touch with most things bike since around 2012..
Electronic ignition is probably the best thing...
It's only the CV Kei-Hin that make life difficult, particularly the 'three jet' from 1960's into 90's but from 1978 on they were just about impossible to get running properly without stock air box
I put K&N filters on my 77 CB550F1 and got 41mpg instead of the 26mpg I had been getting. (at...
I'm still looking for a real cheap caliper body to see if a hydraulic conversion is feasible.
As I don't have any Honda's with cable disc I don't actually need it for my own use.
I just want to experiment and want cheap as possible.
If anyone would like to donate parts and be guinea pig, I'll...
The XS500 was over engineered with too much going on for the era.
It made it quite unreliable, my cousins husband had 5, one to ride and 4 for spare parts.
Even most basic parts are hard to find, oil filters haven't been made by Yamaha since the 80's
It's a motor full of innovation and very...
I've seen that happen twice but as I've worked on thousands of bikes over more than 50 years, it's still really unusual.
Both times it was due to bearing damage which was not cleaned properly.
I remember a Honda where clutch hadn't been fitted properly and bearing cage was damaged, ( I suspect...
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