Down under, an idiot and a 400F

Sonreir said:
I think it's this guy? Only an hour drive from me if you want me to handle shipping stuff, neevo.

http://www.vaporblasting.biz/

There's also this guy:
http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=53266.0
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The first one, Jeff Gibson, is who I use. He is a sponsor on my bike. The problem is not handling the shipping, it's the high cost of send a whole motor's worth of parts.

How would shipping to you then getting it to Jeff help him?
 
o1marc said:
This is who I use for my Vapor Blasting. Excellent place if you are on the west coast. They are in Ore. He says he won't do "multicylinder" motors but I think he means more than twins. It's because he is tired of cleaning the dirty shit people send him. If you make sure your parts are clean and tell him I sent you he should do them for you. I think his pricing will get you for less than the $250 you quoted.

http://www.vaporblasting.biz/index.html
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Pretty sure the shipping to and from Australia will bump the price by about double the blasting cost, even 'empty' motor is pretty heavy, $600~$700 would probably cover shipping both ways ::)
 
crazypj said:
Pretty sure the shipping to and from Australia will bump the price by about double the blasting cost, even 'empty' motor is pretty heavy, $600~$700 would probably cover shipping both ways ::)
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Too true PJ. Might make it a little out of my budget range ;)

For those in Sydney looking for a vapour blaster I can highly recommend Dave Mac at vapourblasting@yahoo.com.au, he's a fab chap to talk too, his pricing is in line with US pricing (which is unheard of in Australia), he's got an amazing reputation and if you all wait 4-5 weeks I will have pictures of his work too!
 
Hi Neevo, been reading your thread and its very inspiring due to what i want to do with my bike! I was wondering where you got the swing arm brace for yours?

Thanks!
 
holbrookracer said:
Hi Neevo, been reading your thread and its very inspiring due to what i want to do with my bike! I was wondering where you got the swing arm brace for yours?

Thanks!
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If you have been reading you would know he got out the bender and welder and made it himself.
Detailed post on May 11 about the build.
 
Correct. I made a template from scrap tube I had lying around here and used that to give to a local tube bending place. Then I welded it up myself.

Still have a spare brace here as they used up the stock by making 2.
 
Came here today to get update on the project and ended up going over the whole thing ;D this is a Honda I can vote for 8) most buy a nice old bike and fuck it up you sir buy a fucked up bike and make it nice ;)
 
neevo said:
Correct. I made a template from scrap tube I had lying around here and used that to give to a local tube bending place. Then I welded it up myself.

Still have a spare brace here as they used up the stock by making 2.
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Awesome, ill have ago with that!
 
holbrookracer said:
Awesome, ill have ago with that!
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Where abouts are you holbrook? If you are in Oz I would sell you the other brace cheap, failing that I can measure it up if you want so you could simply get a copy made wherever you are on the globe.
 
Anyone know what Honda models share the oil gallery plugs? I want to replace this one (and maybe others) as the head on the bolt is mushed up (and I would like a nicer looking one) and I plan on removing all of them before I have the motor vapour blasted so that I can ensure I can flush out all the media afterwards (so will need to replace others if they get damaged in the proces too). I assume there are 4 of these (2 on each side and 2 at the front?)

 
That's probably the same as CB750, 500, 550, 650 plus probably a few others.I have seen aftermarket billet ones but I considered them too expensive (plus can't remember where. maybe TTR400?)
 
crazypj said:
That's probably the same as CB750, 500, 550, 650 plus probably a few others.I have seen aftermarket billet ones but I considered them too expensive (plus can't remember where. maybe TTR400?)
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Just looked on Kevin's site and he's got all the other covers but not the oil gallery ones. There are options on eBay for 750 though so I may buy 1 and see if it fits. Are they all the same size or are there different ones?
 
I can't remember but I think they are all either 14mm or 16mm thread.
The one behind generator is just a plug with 'O' ring, you should have the 'O' ring in gasket set, don't need a new plug
 
crazypj said:
I can't remember but I think they are all either 14mm or 16mm thread.
The one behind generator is just a plug with 'O' ring, you should have the 'O' ring in gasket set, don't need a new plug
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I just want to replace the mangled one under the points.
 
crazypj said:
I forget, did you ever manage to remove it?
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Nope, hence why its all mangled. The plan was to cut it out somehow and replace it before I get the motor vapour blasted so its the same finish. I was planning to rethread the gallery bolt for the oil temp sensor unless you can think of a better place to mount the sensor?

Reason I was thinking there was I could run the wires up with the points wires.
 
Is this what I need? It lists the 350F, but not sure of the cases are the same between the 350F/400F

http://bit.ly/16uE3sx
 
When you chip off the outer edge it should unscrew relatively easy
It looks a bit like a mini rocker cap, (with 'O' ring) just so you know whats inside
 
crazypj said:
Yep, looks like it, it's generic part number instead of model specific
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Bid placed! Will get cracking on removing the old one. Is this the best location for the oil temp sensor?
 
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