wcwmoto360
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New to the community with a first time total rebuild. The platform that I am working with is a Junk Yard find 74 CL360 I picked up for $100 bucks. It still had a 1976 license plate with a 81 registration sticker on it. I'm assuming it has been sitting since 81 or 82 so that's 32-33 years. Ironically when disassembling the bike I found the original owners manual and a bill of sale dated 1979 for the sum of $400.
Once you look past the rusted out gas tank, none existent seat with only a small rusted piece of the seat pan still attached to the seat hinge, missing and rusted out air boxed, rusted out tool holder seized front brake, broken and smashed head light, controls and levers missing and damaged, all cable missing or damaged, the tires dry split and falling apart, and coils are shot (wiring and accessories look like they're all in tacked but will be replaced as needed), all the important stuff was still in tacked and ready to be restored. The frame, motor, front forks, gauges, and wheels are all restorable. The bike is completely disassembled now and I've torn the motor apart. The motor didn't turn over but for $100 bucks I didn't expect it to. Once inside I found the cam chain tensioner guide broken in two, finding out that quite common, and the left side piston rings seized in the cylinder. I looked like something crawled up the exhaust and lived in there sometime in the last 30 years. I say the exhaust because the original spark plugs where still installed. I'm going to work on getting the motor back in shape, checking all the tolerances, bead blast all that I can, probably over bore the cylinders to 68mm, install new wiseco pistons, ect. then move to the rolling chassis. Stay tuned for periodic updated. For now see some of the current photos.
Once you look past the rusted out gas tank, none existent seat with only a small rusted piece of the seat pan still attached to the seat hinge, missing and rusted out air boxed, rusted out tool holder seized front brake, broken and smashed head light, controls and levers missing and damaged, all cable missing or damaged, the tires dry split and falling apart, and coils are shot (wiring and accessories look like they're all in tacked but will be replaced as needed), all the important stuff was still in tacked and ready to be restored. The frame, motor, front forks, gauges, and wheels are all restorable. The bike is completely disassembled now and I've torn the motor apart. The motor didn't turn over but for $100 bucks I didn't expect it to. Once inside I found the cam chain tensioner guide broken in two, finding out that quite common, and the left side piston rings seized in the cylinder. I looked like something crawled up the exhaust and lived in there sometime in the last 30 years. I say the exhaust because the original spark plugs where still installed. I'm going to work on getting the motor back in shape, checking all the tolerances, bead blast all that I can, probably over bore the cylinders to 68mm, install new wiseco pistons, ect. then move to the rolling chassis. Stay tuned for periodic updated. For now see some of the current photos.
