It's a bit off topic, but it's your call as it's your thread................
Hardcorp - Tim Wilkinson ex Gunnery Sgt US Marines, 2 tours to Iraq, 21/2 tours to Afghanistan,(came home early due to wounds) Marine Recon unit (the best they have) and a sniper/HALO Jumper unarmed combat spec, and scuba specialist.recently responsible for correcting the behaviour of some fairly nasty people....having said that, a great guy, family man with two boys, one only 6 weeks old...........friend of mine for the past two years, regular chats on the phone to Georgia.
Died in a car accident on duty somewhere in the US.last Friday..................He designed part of my siggy, and the complete one I use on the CBRJunkie forum too, where many of us have dual membership.A true gentleman and a patriot. I miss him..............

As for me - I live in the land of the Zulu, Kwa-Zulu-Natal in the Republic of South Africa, east coast, near Durban.

And don't worry Henry, when we know you better we'll ALL mess with you..............

 

Thanks for the debriefing Shadow.
Now I am doubly sad. Two good men down in a week.
As for messing with me, have a crack. I'm open to anything. It's what I do all day long. Project management requires a serious excess of bladder content. Everyone want's to take some every minute of the day.
Sorry, we've gone seriously off topic, but hey, it's one of those days. I'm just glad to be here.
I'm going to spend a couple of minutes in silence now. Hardcore and my father in law. Might not have been the same day they died but they'd have liked each other. He was a Para and got asbestos in his lungs from the army. A fighter till the end.
Salute! At ease......
Now get to messing..... Frankly I'm very pissed!

 

Terrible news Pete just terrible.......such young dependents ....not good.........just quite simply a disaster man is all I can say

Henry.......sincere condolences.

 

Henry. Sorry to hear about your father in law and I'm really sorry to hear about Hardcorp. I read a lot of his threads and he seemed to be a good bloke. It really sucks for his young family but they must be very proud of him.

Henry. I've used a freezer spray in conjunction with heat several times in the past to extract broken studs. I used to drill a small hole (not big enough to make it crush when you clamp onto it) and squirt it right down inside. If you're using a reverse thread extractor you'll probably be doing this already, but I just thought I'd mention it in case you're using a cam type stud extractor and don't need to drill a hole anyway. Good luck with the re-build.

 

Would you believe it?
I wrote out my entire parts list, numbers and all yesterday evening, went and had something to eat before I'd posted it and when I hit the submit button the whole thing just disappeared. Damn!
I'll get round to it again in the how to.
Today I'm starting work on the lump. Stay tuned....
Dave, thanks for your advice. I'm using a cam extractor. All my fingers crossed.

As for what has become a forum wide tragedy in Hardcorp's death, I am frankly still in shock and mourning. I can't get the whole vision of it out of my mind after reading his wife's account of what happened so I've decided to do this rebuild in his memory. I've toyed with the idea of just giving up given the expense of the engine spares but damn no, we should all follow in his example of taking on a challenge head on with no other possible outcome other than success. After all, a bike without a working engine is just a useless ornament.

Here goes, (rolling up sleeves).....

 

Good for you Henry !

 

Today has not been great for progress.
Slopped half a gallon of degreaser over the engine, drank coffee, slopped another litre on, drank more coffee, wire brushed, scraped, brushed, slopped another half litre, craked a beer, brushed and brushed, took a step back and realised she was looking a lot better, cracked another beer, wheeled engine to bench, lifted engine onto bench (on my bloody own again), cracked another beer, realised I'd run out of time, rushed off to pick up 14 Y/O daughter from school (something I never seem to have the chance to do), got home, ate a fab dinner, started spraying fluids over my broken exhaust studs, gave up any further activity.
Sounds good doesn't it. I'm happy. Tomorrow's another day. Unfortunately I have to go to work. Apart from the broken studs the lump is ready for plundering but I'm in no rush. Still getting quotes for parts. Still wondering how far I'm going to go with replacements. damn shame I lost that post last night otherwise you'd know what I"m talking about.
My determination is right up there though.

 

Just take your time over it mate. There's no point ordering too much until you get in there and have a good snoop. Parts are so dear you don't want to replace stuff just for the sake of it. I haven't had one of these apart (hope not to as well) but I've spent big bucks on others. Took the head off an old 750 four (also f'n heavy to get on the bench alone) due to a leaky valve. While the head was off I noticed play in the pistons, then when I took the barrels off I noticed play in the con rods etc.etc. In the end I replaced everything that moved and spent a fortune.

Are you going to do a 'how too' with a **** load of pics for the rest of us ?.

 

hey Dave,

good to hear about your experience. I'm kind of thinking the same. get it open and see what's really needed. I'm hoping not to have to do much in the top end department but now I can see the exhaust valves I may just strip it down clean up the stems and do the seals, lapping in etc. I had an engineer do the head of my Volvo recently and having had a bit of a struggle to get it off in the first place it made me feel a lot better knowing that I wouldn't have sorted out one problem only to find another one appearing five minutes after it had all been put back together again.
I'm not in too much of a rush but need to set myself a limit of about two weeks from now have it all up and running again.
As for pics, yes I plan on lots of pics and a bit of a write up.
Still can't get those bloody studs out at the moment. Time to buy some cobalt drill bits, a Dremel and some diamond burrs. That'll do it even if it takes me a few hours on each one.
Do you have any tips on making sure studs don't seize up in their holes? Perhaps I'll just have to remember to loosen them off a bit every few months and then retighten.

 

Very sorry to hear about your loss, Henry...

I'm glad to hear that you're tearing into that motor, though.
I've enjoyed working on quite a few Honda cars over the years, and hearing you mention lapping valves brings back some memories. (mostly good...)
As I'm sure you already know, the best way to work on a honda is with a smile on your face. (and a beer in your hand... )

And if anything goes wrong, just think of me accidentally dropping a head on a new radiator and smashing it.
Or think of me installing old crank bearings (probably wrong), and burning the crank up a week later.

I just wish that you could call a distributor and buy cheap low mile Jap motors for the 1000F like you could do with the cars. Hell, I was buying D16 motors for $580 shipped to my front door!
If that were the case with the 1000F, I'd probably have a spare on a skid in my garage by now...

But anyway, good luck with the build. I'm looking forward to your success!