Well damn, what a crazy afternoon.
I stopped by the shop after work to pick up the bike. I met up with Chad, my mechanic and we started talking about the bike. Right off the bat, he tells me that the bike was mostly manhour work and not a lot of money for parts. In total it cost me $480, I thought it would be closer to $1k!!! Here is the breakdown.
Parts/Fluids:
1. New Spark Plugs (Higher temp ones, aparently the ones I used before, NGK B8ES, get too hot and foul)
2. Fork Oil
3. Carb cleaner
4. Oil Change
5. Brake fluid and cleaner
Work:
1. Adjusted points and set timing
2. Rebuilt carbs, tune and synchro (kept CB450 carbs on there, easier to tune) *
3. rebuilt forks to fix fork oil leak **
4. Oil Change
5. Brake work ***
Footnotes (my thoughts on them in parentheses):
*Choke plate - Right side is home made and needs to be replaced with OEM. (Me: I made it myself out of sheet metal, but apparently without the little spring loaded flap, the one side gets flooded).
**Leaky fork seals - a cheap replacement brand was used before the Honda ones you gave me are MUCH better
***Front brake - IS TERRIBLE. We tried to adjust it and bleed it, its still squishy probably master cylinder needs replacing (Me: WTF! I replaced the original crappy one that worked 1/2 what it should with a new CB400 one that kicks ass! I was actually hurt by this :'( )
The ride home sucked balls, Chicago got hit with a monsoon and for 90% of the trip I was getting pelted with rain. On Lakeshore Drive, the lanes filled with water fast. Anytime someone passed me, it felt like a wave from the pacific was crashing down on me and blinded me for about a few seconds. I definitely got a lot of WTF faces from cagers! It was miserable, but it felt really badass!
