Hello everyone.
Im new to the forum, or posting anyway, and taking this chance to introduce myself and ask for help! Ive been looking around on threads and reading up on alot of the things to prepare for work on my own bike. I wish I could have started sooner but I work mostly out of town and recently made a move, thank goodness I have a garage now.
So, I have a '76 CB750K. The last time I was able to ride it was right before winter on a trip to Oklahoma to my best friends parents second home on Lake Texoma shortly before he was deployed. We hadnt had the bikes long, in fact the trip started as soon as I was let out of the class I took to get my endorsement! We ran into lots of little problems. I had electrical gremlins and my headlights would simply decide to come on and off as it pleased. We found one short and fixed that but there must have been a few, on one lonely backroad through Kansas we went something like 200 miles riding side by side so I could see HIS headlight. His carb collar rattled loose and after he tightened it real tight (never tighten it real tight) his '73 CB750 would only run at redline. James, a mechanic leaving work on a Hondamatic taught us that you can bend the needle in your carb just by tightening it a bit too hard with your hands. This of course makes your carbs stick wide open. Fun! remedied that by leaving the collar as loose as possible so the needle had some room to shimy and shake and not stick when operating the carb (p.o. removed return cable) and holding it in place with loctite. Might not be the proper way but it got us to Ok. I then managed to hit a pheasant with my face somewhere near the Ton. Somehow I didnt lay it down, I give the credit to the adrenaline rush and the Biltwell 3/4 helmet with bubble shield I was wearing. Pheasant died, broke the shield and bloodied my lip (bloodied the bird worse) but Im here to tell the tale. An oil seal went out 6 miles from home and its been sitting since. Never trust those little lights, ill be installing a mechanical oil gauge.
Just tore into the engine and trying my hand at a complete rebuild. Saw a few first timers on here go for it so I figured why not? With Clymer and Haynes manuals nothing has given me any trouble at all. Till now. That damned roll/split/slotted pin, whatever you prefer to call it, that retains the kickstart shaft is stuck. Really really really stuck. The manual says it will just pull out with some thin nosed pliers, but its not a perfect world. So how do I go about getting that thing out? ive tried heat and carefully applied pb blaster. Im hoping someone has a trick up their sleeves to share with me as ive got lots of goodies coming in the mail and would like to get these cases cleaned up and painted so I can start putting things back together when the parts arrive.
Thanks for looking and for any help/advice you may have to share.
Im new to the forum, or posting anyway, and taking this chance to introduce myself and ask for help! Ive been looking around on threads and reading up on alot of the things to prepare for work on my own bike. I wish I could have started sooner but I work mostly out of town and recently made a move, thank goodness I have a garage now.
So, I have a '76 CB750K. The last time I was able to ride it was right before winter on a trip to Oklahoma to my best friends parents second home on Lake Texoma shortly before he was deployed. We hadnt had the bikes long, in fact the trip started as soon as I was let out of the class I took to get my endorsement! We ran into lots of little problems. I had electrical gremlins and my headlights would simply decide to come on and off as it pleased. We found one short and fixed that but there must have been a few, on one lonely backroad through Kansas we went something like 200 miles riding side by side so I could see HIS headlight. His carb collar rattled loose and after he tightened it real tight (never tighten it real tight) his '73 CB750 would only run at redline. James, a mechanic leaving work on a Hondamatic taught us that you can bend the needle in your carb just by tightening it a bit too hard with your hands. This of course makes your carbs stick wide open. Fun! remedied that by leaving the collar as loose as possible so the needle had some room to shimy and shake and not stick when operating the carb (p.o. removed return cable) and holding it in place with loctite. Might not be the proper way but it got us to Ok. I then managed to hit a pheasant with my face somewhere near the Ton. Somehow I didnt lay it down, I give the credit to the adrenaline rush and the Biltwell 3/4 helmet with bubble shield I was wearing. Pheasant died, broke the shield and bloodied my lip (bloodied the bird worse) but Im here to tell the tale. An oil seal went out 6 miles from home and its been sitting since. Never trust those little lights, ill be installing a mechanical oil gauge.
Just tore into the engine and trying my hand at a complete rebuild. Saw a few first timers on here go for it so I figured why not? With Clymer and Haynes manuals nothing has given me any trouble at all. Till now. That damned roll/split/slotted pin, whatever you prefer to call it, that retains the kickstart shaft is stuck. Really really really stuck. The manual says it will just pull out with some thin nosed pliers, but its not a perfect world. So how do I go about getting that thing out? ive tried heat and carefully applied pb blaster. Im hoping someone has a trick up their sleeves to share with me as ive got lots of goodies coming in the mail and would like to get these cases cleaned up and painted so I can start putting things back together when the parts arrive.
Thanks for looking and for any help/advice you may have to share.
