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Thanks - I'm looking at something simple - but we all knw that it doesn't always work out that way. :D

BTW - out of curiosity - did you happen to see what that KZ sold for on Ebay?

Beater - funny what you said about the wife - my wife also favors kawi green. I'm thinking of adding a goldish yellow and white. But that h2r is always an option. Good looking machine. I've also been thinking about something like one of them wrenchmonkee bikes, (like black, dirty bronze and...

I seem to remember that the color was 'chrome' - being powder coat, it doesn't have the same shine as the real stuff, but I'm still pleased with the look so far. Is the attached pic your machine? I'm thinking of doing a very similar color scheme.

...on the subject of drilled rotors. Back a few pages I posted the template of the pattern i used. It was only after I started drilling that I realized the inner-most ring of holes is really too close to the center. For anyone who uses the template - be aware that you might want to print...

I'm in central Denver, and it was yours truly who did the drilling. Created the template in Illustrator from a pic of Mike Hailwood's Ducati. Though it's funny, I just looked at the pic again and the pattern is different (2,3,2,3, etc), instead of mine which is 2,2,2,2,etc. Oh well, it looks...

The Motor is in! Happy day - as of 7:30 this morning, the motor is back in. Finished re-assembling the motor, adjusted the valves and gave it another clean. The dirt just seemed endless. The block is still not 'from the factory' clean, but it's gonna get dirty again, so the show goes on...

Well new seal in place, motor cleaned, gear tolerances verified, liquid gasket applied and the case is back together. Over the next day or so, I want to finish rebuilding the motor and hopefully adjust the valves. I think my goal of having her up and running by the new year may be difficult...

The PO's efforts to stop the leak had a side effect - liquid gasket seeped through and seized the needle bearings. Happily the bike was never used much. It still has less the 11k on the clock and I'm guessing that the repair was done pretty recently because despite frozen bearings there was no...

some more close ups of the seal. The bottom pic is the fresh seal ready to go in next to the original.

more pics of splitting the case and the old seal. If you look carefully you can see the seal I put in in front and the old one butted against the bearing case.

more pics of splitting the case.

Thanks man - gotta say I'm enjoying the process.

Re: 1978 KZ400 B1 - splitting the case Of all the problems that the bike had when I bought it, the clutch pushrod seal was the one that I least wanted to deal with. Why? Because it pissed oil (probably a few ml's per minute) and the only way to replace it is to split the case. One of the POs...

and another just a few days ago...

And here are a couple of pic of the rolling chassis...

Meanwhile I've been struggling with getting new fork springs. The old ones were mashed potatoes and I liked the idea of progressive springs as handling is one of my primary concerns. After all, the KZ ain't setting any 1/4 mile records! Only problem was that since the KZ400 is sort of off...

I had been thinking day and night about how to get the brake to work without resorting to welding cable stays on the hub and frame. Then I put everything together and started playing with the parts and (I think) I've got it working with the stock bar. The second pic is what it looks like now...

Next up was figuring out the rearsets. I had bought some GSX-R units (I think from a '97 750) as they were $40 and that's probably cheaper then fabricating them myself. Plus I reckon them boys over in Japan probably worked out a few of the design issues that may have landed me in the...

I also decided that the bracing bar was enormously heavy - I saved over 100g by making a new one! ;D Seriously though it does look the part.