You'll be fine. Maybe if you were going to take your bike to track days and run it hard it could be beneficial, but for puttering around and general riding you'll be ok.
1974 Honda CL360 barn find
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Untame
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I did the transfer piece mod last night as well as the mod to radius the filter cap. One other step I added was to expand the first coil of the transfer piece spring so that it would seat tightly on the transfer piece ID. This improves the oil pathway clearance while also ensuring that the spring is fully seated on the smaller lip. The first coil is now snug in the ID, and I can install it fully by rotating it into position.
I'm really not at all happy by the amount of friction on the outside of the transfer piece -- it feels positively gritty. I understand that it should be a tight fit to prevent seepage, but I'm somewhat concerned that if it doesn't move freely it might get pushed back and hung up -- not in full contact with the filter cap.
I'm really not at all happy by the amount of friction on the outside of the transfer piece -- it feels positively gritty. I understand that it should be a tight fit to prevent seepage, but I'm somewhat concerned that if it doesn't move freely it might get pushed back and hung up -- not in full contact with the filter cap.
Untame
Been Around the Block
I know that's what we did w/ mine. Copper base gasket below and regular head gasket up top.
Untame
Been Around the Block
The bore on the stock head gasket is big enough to accommodate the larger pistons?
He has .063 and .042 material. Doing copper on the top might help with heat dissipation, but would add $50 cost to the project.
I'm sorry, Jon, I was mistaken. Had to go through my Hedgehog thread to "remember" things. We used a stock base gasket then used a 1.04mm copper head gasket. I do remember that the bore on the head gasket wasn't 100% right and we did a bit of work w/ a file to get thing to where we were happy w/ the clearance.
Untame
Been Around the Block
OK. Thanks for the clarification.
I think I'm going to use the .063 copper base gasket to get my pistons at basically zero-deck, then the .042 copper head gasket.
I can tell you we had no trouble w the thing. I was really surprised how different from original it sounded when we first got it started. Admittedly, it had been some time since I'd heard it run, but it seemed to me that the sound was decidedly deeper and stronger. When I got it done I knew I should have listened to my heart and, midstream in the project, changed to more of a tracker style that would have been more senior friendly. I'm sure it didn't have more than four hours run time on the 378cc build. AND I bet that it's still in that stage. The woman I sold it to was more of a collector and took it home, parked it in a corner of her barn, and it's probably still sitting there. Pennsylvania has some very strict vehicle inspection regulations and I told her she wouldn't get it through their inspection; said she didn't care and bought it anyway.
