Complete newbie from Indiana, with a 67' Honda CL77

Tim Miller · Post by **Tim Miller** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:59 pm

I would try some evapo-rust first.

Tim

Peter Murray · Post by **Peter Murray** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:36 pm

Just sending power your way, that baby was just a bit crusty. Looking forward to progress. Your bike makes mine look like showroom.

JCrimson · Post by **JCrimson** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:04 pm

Peter Murray wrote:Just sending power your way, that baby was just a bit crusty. Looking forward to progress. Your bike makes mine look like showroom.

Thanks for the kind push, my bike is still underway just EXTREMELY slowly. In my mind, on the journey to get the bike... I saw pretty much what yours is, a somewhat complete project. Haha.

Since I'm here, i'll do a little bit of an update.

As of this summer, I completed most of the frame re-spray, had the top end of the engine rebuilt by LOUD MOUSE (great guy to work with and great work!), purchased the carb and petcock rebuild kits, and lastly purchased a gravity feed media blaster i'll use to try and get the bottom end to look like the top.

Hoosier Tom · Post by **Hoosier Tom** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:13 pm

Lookin' good, Jake.

HT

JCrimson · Post by **JCrimson** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:12 pm

Long time, no update.

This winter has been pretty slow. I got around to working on rebuilding the carburetors and I came across one small problem with the rebuild kits that I purchased concerning the main jets.

The threads are a bit different and the replacement main jet will not screw in. I was wondering if anyone has come across this problem with rebuild kits before? The kits are from Classic Honda Restoration.

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:51 pm

The ones with the ring around the jet are ISO metric threads. The originals are JIS threads M5 x 0.9 pitch from memory.

G

LOUD MOUSE · Post by **LOUD MOUSE** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 4:21 pm

I find that any Main Jet with the ring/grove around the top area is for carbs which came after the carbs we use.
As G said the threads are totally different.
JIS early (our carbs) then ISO for the later carbs.
You sure want to tell Tim about this. ...........lm

JCrimson wrote:Long time, no update.

This winter has been pretty slow. I got around to working on rebuilding the carburetors and I came across one small problem with the rebuild kits that I purchased concerning the main jets.

The threads are a bit different and the replacement main jet will not screw in. I was wondering if anyone has come across this problem with rebuild kits before? The kits are from Classic Honda Restoration.