4th Letter from Dave

Hi Yasu

Continuing the front end rebuild, I turned my attention to the forks, again these stripped down easily as per the Haynes manual, although as I said before the stanchions were slightly pitted but the rest of the parts were ok, including the anti-dive mechanism. I cleaned all the internal parts and gave the fork legs a coat of satin black paint. Taking the advice of one of your contributors I made up a pair of 25 mm spacers to fit on top of the fork springs. On reassembling the forks I replaced the fork seals, and as the stanchions are quite expensive to rechrome or replace so I'll see how the originals last! The original mudguard was damaged and I fancied a more "wraparound" modern style. After trying varius different types I found that the front mudguard of a Yamaha TZR 250 fits the CBX perfectly, using the original CBX steel "hoop". With the fork topped up with oil and the new mudguard fitted the Honda front end certainly looked "the business", I can't wait to tackle the rest!

Yasu, throughout this rebuild I've been lucky enough to have a circle of friends and workmates without whom the project would not have been possible, therefor with each of my episodes I'd like to mention some one who gave their all to the cause. Today I'd like to thank Charlie Butler who's untiring skill with the acetylene torch reshaped the Honda's exhaust!, and many more smaller parts.

Ride safe Dave

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Dave Head
headd@agrevo.com