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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Thanks fellas. I completed the wiring harness today. I have the cable for the starter and the main battery ground left to tack on and it’s done. The wiring was in terrible condition. I just need to think about how best to route it now. It’s zip tied up near the mounts for the side covers at the...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    This looks pretty good to me. I feel like I could polish it up more, but from a stylistic perspective maybe that would be too much? I don’t know precisely what I am making here, just following my nose....but it does seem to fit as it is. Anyone feel like paint is a must? Sent from my iPad...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Good on you, Brian. After my wife’s fourth diagnosis her Doctor decided to do as much preventative surgery as possible. No point in waiting for it to come back again. It has been a long road, but she is doing very well. She’s decorating the Christmas tree and I’m working on the tank. I’ll go...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Yeah, I just had the time this week for some reason. Well, maybe I made the time. I have a new regulator/rectifier combo on the way, so once that arrives I’m going to see if I can check wiring off the list. I picked the battery box out of the pile of junk that was originally zip-tied to the bike...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Ok, so that’s starting to look like something. I need another ten feet of wiring and I should be good to go...I think. The wiring for the starter, and the main ground for the battery looks...aged. Not like wine or women, just aged. I got my boots for the front forks and should have the mounts...
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    CB750 rat bike?

    Sounds pretty good, really. I had the same issues as you with the triple tree on my 350. There was nothing I could do to get the threads back into a working condition. Nice save, and nice work on the mountain vac test. Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON
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    the Hunley or, pidjones needed a retirement project

    That’s a beautiful bike and I’ve enjoyed your thread. My own shop has insanely high humidity so I feel your pain. I’ve started putting out those buckets that pull moisture out of the air after my mold adventure. Might not help, but certainly can’t hurt. Makes painting finely difficult. I usually...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    And on the subject of breast cancer, more than a little of my income goes to the right foundation for scientific research into the causes. It’s a disease that mostly affects women, but it’s especially hard on the men in their orbit. Moms, daughters, wives, sisters. My wife is a boss, and she...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    A productive day. I’d like to have done more, but being the time of year that it is, I have a steadily growing pile of chainsaws, leaf-blowers and generators demanding attention. I repaired the gauges and closed them up, applying the new faces. They were more than a little rusty, so I shot them...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Oh, and I will pull the motor off at some point and get some solid frame maintenance under it. Based on what I can see it is pretty good shape. It just didn’t seem like the right time to do it. I’d rather put all the pieces in place and then back-track to square off rough edges. I like progress...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    My wife feels really good today. She had the sixth of seven projected surgeries as I typed that last post. She will be off her feet until next Wednesday, but she looks and feels great. Breast cancer is a horrible thing. I think one of the reasons I was clocking so much time working—and adding...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Long time, no see. I guess that pneumonia was a little more serious of an issue than I first thought. It turns out that a load of lumber from a scrapped barn that I took in and put up on one of my larger shelves was covered in black mold. That’s some serious business. I was more or less poisoned...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Not a great deal of progress over the last couple of days. I had to turn it up to get my backlog covered. I did go ahead and attempt to remount the original forks, but ran into problems getting the All Balls replacement bearings to seat properly. I don’t know how l have gotten along without a...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Absolutely. I just need something to sit it on while I finish the other work. I have a tire-mounting stand in my shop, but I haven’t even started looking at what might be ideal for it. Today I did nearly nothing on it. Everything Honda-relates requires something that produces fumes or dust, and...
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    CL350 Junker Wrenching

    Made a little progress, but I should have slowed my roll yesterday and it showed today. Just dragging along still. Pulled off the back wheel and that was about all I had in me, even though I needed to clean my bench and do a degrease on the floor. It’s a shop, sure, but the Mrs. likes to come by...
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