yawlright
Been Around the Block
Good Day all DTT people. I am here once again to continue my Honda CB200 build!
Here is a link to my first attempt: http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=27628.0
I felt it unwise to resurrect my dead zombie thread even on the same exact bike. So here I am starting fresh.
First a little back story... Read my first thread i guess. Then at the end of the first thread after immense and gratifying work i got the bike started. The next day I noticed some smoke after letting it idle for a few minutes. Poof! Meltdown. I knew it was my cam journal overheating and to be fair the journal wasn't melted to bad or even stuck. What melted was the magnet sleeve for the electronic ignition. Talk about a safety mechanism... The cam journal does have some marring however good thing i have a spare. The frustration was palpable so I parked the bike at my parents and didn't think about it ... for a long time. until last month when after an extremely long hard summer of work, I now have the time and $$$ to FINISH HIM! I do not mean rip out my bikes spine.
So I will upload pictures and updates as I go along. They will be frequent and I am excited. The help I received on my initial attempt was so amazing. I can only hope to garner enough attention from the experts lurking on here to get me to the finish line. for realz this time. To think, if you read the first post of my other thread, I was optimistic of my timeline to get the bike complete. I now know just what it will take to get through the lengthy task, my intense and satisfying passion for tinkering!
Cheers, Eric
Here is a link to my first attempt: http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=27628.0
I felt it unwise to resurrect my dead zombie thread even on the same exact bike. So here I am starting fresh.
First a little back story... Read my first thread i guess. Then at the end of the first thread after immense and gratifying work i got the bike started. The next day I noticed some smoke after letting it idle for a few minutes. Poof! Meltdown. I knew it was my cam journal overheating and to be fair the journal wasn't melted to bad or even stuck. What melted was the magnet sleeve for the electronic ignition. Talk about a safety mechanism... The cam journal does have some marring however good thing i have a spare. The frustration was palpable so I parked the bike at my parents and didn't think about it ... for a long time. until last month when after an extremely long hard summer of work, I now have the time and $$$ to FINISH HIM! I do not mean rip out my bikes spine.
So I will upload pictures and updates as I go along. They will be frequent and I am excited. The help I received on my initial attempt was so amazing. I can only hope to garner enough attention from the experts lurking on here to get me to the finish line. for realz this time. To think, if you read the first post of my other thread, I was optimistic of my timeline to get the bike complete. I now know just what it will take to get through the lengthy task, my intense and satisfying passion for tinkering!
Cheers, Eric