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[irk miller]

Ill help you decide. Yes you do.


Your welcome.

=)

Haha. I like hanging out with enablers.

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

Cheap (lowes sale) benchtop belt and disk combo, hope its not a total turd ???

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[Redbird]

Ill help you decide. Yes you do.

I concur


And around here 2wd and 4wd are fairly plentiful. What makes them cheap is Manual Transmissions. Because people these days either don't want to deal with it in the event of traffic, or (more likely) they don't know how to drive it.

 

[cxman]

if you do it makes the truck useless for hauling stuff as the floor of the box will need cutting out if you are going to slam it

hen the tank and valves take up the rest of the room

 

[irk miller]

if you do it makes the truck useless for hauling stuff as the floor of the box will need cutting out if you are going to slam it

hen the tank and valves take up the rest of the room

Not true. You notch the frame, swap the leaf springs for 4 link and the tank fits where a reserve tank would go. It's only a 5 gal tank.

 

[J-Rod10]

A thing to move things.

Had a red 06 my senior year of high school in 06, through college. The V6 gets terrible gas mileage. Drove it from 06-08 until I bought a 08 Tahoe. It got worse gas mileage. Gave it to my little brother. He drove it all through high school and college. Altogether, put a touch over 200,000 on it between the two of us. Never had any major issues. Good little trucks outside of the shitty mileage.

 

[cxman]

most that i have seen protrude into the bed sorry if that is not accurate

 

[irk miller]

most that i have seen protrude into the bed sorry if that is not accurate

If you want to lay it on the ground, you have to tub it and put a runner in the bed for the axle. I'm running 16's on the back though, not 20" or bigger rims. I can get away with notching the frame just a couple of inches instead putting in a full step notch, which would warrant the runner. Most guys put the tank behind the axle where the spare tire goes. Even if you tub it, you're not losing all of your hauling space and the runner isn't usually more than a few inches tall. I also have an 8 ft bed, so even if I had to put the tank in the bed, it's not like it's taking up 32 sq ft of space.

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

Won this CB750 front end, model unidentified other than "sandcast?" which we all know is a sales tactic. I haven't ever seen a set with an old school steering damper. Anyone here seen a CB750 with this setup?

Obviously for the DeadTail 8)

 

[adventurco]

Won this CB750 front end, model unidentified other than "sandcast?" which we all know is a sales tactic. I haven't ever seen a set with an old school steering damper. Anyone here seen a CB750 with this setup?

Obviously for the DeadTail 8)

Sweet, think I just saw that on fleaBay the other day while looking for options for a swap on the 360.

 

[surffly]

It is an earlier front end so could be shandcast.
No real value in it, other then the expensive top triple tree.

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

It is an earlier front end so could be shandcast.
No real value in it, other then the expensive top triple tree.

Thanks!

I just want the legs, but if it could be identified as a true sandcast front end the value would be considerably more than any after.

The bottom tree would be different also for the damper to work, the way the stem is welded it would have to be a machined surface to make the damper work and the ears in decent condition bring a 50 dollar bill so I'l likely get half of my investment back and end up with a much better set of legs.

 

[jpmobius]

Pretty sure the early bikes had painted headlight mounts - not that these couldn't have easily been swapped out at some time. Looks like a dampener knob to me, but I've seen fakes (what for??!!). I don't recall seeing that on a 750 - have you checked to see if it actually does the job?

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

Pretty sure the early bikes had painted headlight mounts - not that these couldn't have easily been swapped out at some time. Looks like a dampener knob to me, but I've seen fakes (what for??!!). I don't recall seeing that on a 750 - have you checked to see if it actually does the job?

They did have painted ears, I'm not trying to sell the sandcast theory boys.

I haven't received them yet, but I can tell you tho, this is a functional damper as evidenced by the lower bearing race: looks like the friction stack to me ???

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

The gap under the top tree to the ears suggests that it has been modified to run the damper also.

 

[surffly]

I think 1972 had the "early" fork legs (Caliper mounts are unique), chrome headlight ears AND the unicorn top triple.

People list ANY unicorn as a sandcast.
There is actually a way to tell, but it doesn't seem to effect the price much.
Any time I am at a swap meet and see that top triple I pick them up. Once bought 15-20 of them as a lot for $100......made a few bucks on that deal....

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

I think 1972 had the "early" fork legs (Caliper mounts are unique), chrome headlight ears AND the unicorn top triple.

People list ANY unicorn as a sandcast.
There is actually a way to tell, but it doesn't seem to effect the price much.
Any time I am at a swap meet and see that top triple I pick them up. Once bought 15-20 of them as a lot for $100......made a few bucks on that deal....

Makes sense. My 750 is a 72 and I have the "unicorn" clamp set off that.

 

[teazer]

A couple of thoughts:
The picture looks like upper and lower bearing races. That friction damper is probably an aftermarket accessory.
Honda did fit friction dampers to many of teh twins and they consisted of teh rod and knob up top. Below the lower triple clamp there was a plate that bolted to the lower triple, followed by the friction disk and then another plate, spring and nut.

Think of it as a clutch disk ( small) between two steel disks. The steels were located on the triple clamp and turned and the friction was tied to the frame and did not rotate. http://www.hondatwins.net/forums/attachments/7731d1296072111-steering-damper-info-needed-steering-damper-right.jpg

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

Seems right, I plan to see if any markings on the thing that identifies the manufacturer, but all in all if I sell off the trees and ears to bring the legs in line with what they are worth to me I'm good.

I could of cleaned up the gashes in my lowers and got new stanchions but who knows what the guts are like so I popped for those.

Now I can do test grind on the old one to mockup my brake mods and do a final grind on the nice one to lash it all up.


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[irk miller]

It'll probably stay with Canyoncarver in New Mexico until Barber, but this will be the next Hellride...

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