Did a little prep to get the fork ready for reassembly. I like to polish the tubes with fine wet/dry paper and a few drops of oil. These tubes are original and in great shape, this is all they needed.
Everything else by now was cleaned, replated, re-powdercoated, and re-ordered, so we got it ready to go, just waiting for those NOS bushings.
Got some more needed parts from members here, some tasty lattice footrests and a rusty but solid chain guard.
We vapor blasted the footrests and then gave them an hour in the vibratory polisher to put a little more twinkle on them, and that was the perfect finish for the look we are going for on this bike.
The chain guard took a quick trip to my plater to strip the rust and chrome, and then on to the powdercoat folks, who coated it in that same wrinkle black I used on the fork stanchions. This looks fantastic, will be practical in this location, and was a good way to repurpose an otherwise homely part without $pending a bunch of money and time on expensive rechroming.
We put the footrests on when we installed the swingarm, installed some new Ikon 7610 shocks, and then the refurbished rear wheel. It's always a great boost when it starts to look a lot like a motorcycle again, isn't it? 1100 wheel is in the 1100F swingarm and axle, so of course no issues getting this to bolt up, and as up front the brake caliper bracket looks like it lines right up.
Finally the bushings arrived, and we got to reassemble the fork. This got the full RaceTech treatment: New springs and spacers, GoldValve cartridge emulators, oil seals, dust seals, inner and outer bushings, and damper rod bolt crush washers. And so with that done and installed it was time to fool around with the alignment of the front 1100F wheel and brakes in the 81 750 fork.
This is still a bit of a work in progress, but here is what I have learned so far: The bad news is that the 1100F wheel is actually EDIT 15mm narrower at the bearing surfaces then the 750F wheel so it won't bolt up with the 750 axle and spacers. The good news is that the brake rotors look like they will line right up with the calipers once the wheel is centered (you knew that already, didn't you). My machinist pal is whipping me up a set of spacers - one to replace the right-side that is (EDITED - these are the right sizes) +2.5mm longer, and a second one at 7.5mm that will have to sandwich between the speedo drive and the axle nut on the left. We'll also try an entire 1100F axle that is inbound including its drive and spacer setup and see if that lets me do away with these spacers (EDITED - no, that doesn't work), which would be better. I'd hate to think of the owner of the bike getting new tires one day and having that non-standard 7.5mm spacer go missing.
LAST EDIT: I was being a knucklehead with this entire issue. Just get a complete 1100F axle setup, INCLUDING the speedo drive and spacer, and don't install it backwards as I did at first. You'll have to use an 1100 speedo cable too as they install differently. Do this and it almost lines up using the 750 brake calipers and brackets. I did have to clearance the left caliper bracket a couple of MM with a file, which took about 3 minutes.