The 305 Forum is a great place to get questions answered and can be very entertaining but using it as a knowlege base and searching for specific info can be challenging. Here are some suggestions for more effective searching and some general info resources that were previously posted but are worth including. To put together a paper repair guide, you need to be able to copy and paste to a document and print it out.
Keep in mind this comes from my perspective as a relative newcomer to the Forum and is intended to be helpful to other newcomers who might be new to 305's also.
First, get access to a Honda parts manual. WrenchRust provided an excellent high res copy of the CL77 parts manual on the Forum recently (search using Keywords "Parts Catalogue" or by Author "WrenchRust"), also several on-line parts retailers including Western Hills Honda have manuals on their websites. Find the parts you want to repair in the parts manual and note their Honda names, then try to figure out what you'll have to remove to get at them. The parts manual will usually show the assembly order of the parts but pay attention to the draftsman's center line because they're not always straight. Print the pages you'll need and put them on a clipboard in the order you'll be using them.
Next, get access to a service manual. I ride a CL and haven't found a CL service manual yet but here's a link to the Rivet Restorations website that has a CB77 manual;
http://www.rivetrestorations.com/index_ ... ge2106.htm
RR's website has an incredible collection of manuals. Take a look at the 3 manuals to the right of the list of manuals. The Honda Common Tool Manual is a cleverly disguised guide to how the Honda engineers intended their motorcycles to be worked on and sometimes you can figure out how to make your own special tools from the illustrations. The Honda Common Service Manual shows how to perform some of the tricky mechanical operations and the Electrical Service Manual has therory and specific repair info from the 305's era.
The CB service manual works for most of the CL and CA engine work. The important engine differences are; the CB has a tach drive, electric starter and monkey motion kick starter and the CA has a single carb and points and a parallel crank.
Go through the service manual and find the info you need and print the pages. While the website is still open go back and check the pages to make sure you can read them, highlight the important stuff then add them to the clipboard.
Next, search the Forum for the repairs you'll be doing and/or the parts you'll be working on using the names you found in the manuals unless there's a more common name that we use. I think the Search link included on the Discussion Board gives the best results if you click on the "Search All Terms" button in the Search Query section and click on "Posts" in the Search Options/Display Results section. The "Search" option in the yellow Forum directory on the left of the Discussion Board gives good results too. Either way it takes some persistence and you might have to cross reference posts or try different search settings to find what you're looking for but it's worth it because you'll find other useful info you weren't looking for. When you find a nugget of info, highlight, copy and paste it into a working document with similar info. You can build a reference data base that way by saving the pages even if you can't print them out. When you've found all the info you need or have the patience to find, print the documents out and add them to the clipboard.
Next, do a Forum search for "Tech tips, lessons learned" originally posted by Spargett. It was written by someone with alot of experience and it's loaded with info. Print the pages with relevant info and add them to the clipboard.
Finally, click on the "FAQ" section of the yellow Forum directory, click on "How do I tune my factory stock motor - Ed Moore's Special Tuning Recipe". Print a copy and add it to the bottom of the stack you have on the clipboard. It will walk you through the final tuning phase after you've finished everything else.
There you have it..... there's an incredible amount of info available in these resources provided by some very generous people, I hope they help someone else enjoy their 305 as much as I have mine.
