And it was gone. I traded it on a 1974 (maybe 1973) CB350. The seller of the CB350 is Christchurch based so we both had to pay for shipping either way. Hopefully the sadness of seeing this one go will be followed by much joy upon the arrival of the CB350 on Friday afternoon.

I managed to fix the neutral light. Pulled the sender out and stuck a screwdriver driver in the hole. I managed to rotate the contact back to where it should be. I’m absolutely chuffed to nuts I don’t have to pull the engine out and split the cases again. YeeeeeHaaaa ?

After pulling the engine, splitting the crankcases and spending several hours trying to understand how the kick-starter mechanism works, I figured it out. There’s a plate the controls engagement of the kick starter ratchet and it was bent. Bent it back and all is fixed.

Lapped the valves while I was in there, exhaust valve was bad, came up great though. Runs really nice now with good slow steady idle.

I have introduced another issue now though, the neutral light is on all the time. The engine will have to come out again as the sender is buried in the middle of the gearbox.

I put the engine back in the frame and started it up today.

Now I remember that the engine was making this grinding noise from the kickstarter previously. It still is.

I made a tool from a wheel spindle to pull the fork stantions through the fork ears today. It saves a lot of hassle.
I got the wheels on and discovered the new mudguards are actually made of stainless steel ?

The only decent handlebars I had didn’t have the slots for the electrical cables so I milled slots into them.

Lots of goodie’s have arrived from mBIKE in Christchurch ?

Bev did a great job on preparing and painting the engine. She did it all on her own ?