Last night we drained the tank on the Honda. For some reason it had 3/4 of a tank in there. Can't imagine why.
Then we took the airbox, battery and finally the carbs off.
My dad was supposed to upload the pics for me, but he is slacking.
The air box and filter were literally filled with rolly polly corpses. There was also an empty pecan shell in there.
We decided that we are probably gonna do away with all that and get K&N filters for it.
This morning we got out there and started to clean up the carbs. Thing has been sitting for 27 years with gas in it, so it was pretty nasty. We spent most of the day just getting them clean and functioning.
We then took stock of what we should work on next weekend which will be taking off the wheels and chain. Lubing the chain up to see if it will be usable. Taking a look at the drum brake in the rear(someone messed with it at some point so it seems a little fishy), then WD-40ing the crap out of the front calipers to see if we can compress it(it's been sticking).
We also WD-40ed the clutch and throttle cables and they all seem to be functioning now.
Didn't get to anything on the Bridgestone because the Honda carbs took so much time. We also didn't want to get parts mixed up, so we are gonna work on one at a time.
Anyone have suggestions for the air filter? We decided today that we are not going to try and keep it true to OEM. Inverted forks are definitely in it's future, and the tank will have to be repainted. I love the blue and gold so we will use the same color scheme, but the tank has a soft spot on it and to fix it properly we will have to strip it.
We also found that the frame under the tank is dented ever so slightly. The tank is not dented in the same spot, so we are not sure what the hell happened with that. Maybe the tank has been repaired or replaced? We aren't entirely sure.
I think that is all we did....there were three of us and we put in a good 9 hours total last night and today. Granted, I'm learning a lot during all of this and my husband is meticulous and apparently wanted the carbs clean enough to where he could eat off of them.
We went through 3.5 cans of carb and choke cleaner.
We are just taking it step by step and not coming up with outlandish ideas just yet. But I am more than willing to hear about or see everyone else's outlandish ideas!
