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13 Jul 2006 10:40 #61696 by 77Davo650
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Okay so I've been working on my bike for about a month now, still trying to bring it back to life and thought I'd give a little progress update.

This bike started out with everything wrong with it, except that it had just enough life to turn over and run for a few minutes at a time (that is, until I fried the electronics on it because the wiring harness finally decided to give up the ghost).

I totally re-wired the entire bike, ebayed the crap out of a bunch of miscellaneous parts, and have been able to slowly but surely make this bike start looking alike a bike again. The tank that came with it was toast, the phosphoric acid I used on it ate all that was left of the rust-steel, so I had to get a new tank (a steal on ebay for $15). I used MEK to dissolve the kreem crap out of it and instead re-coated it with POR-15, which I can tell is already 1000 times better. Kreem dissolves in Acetone/MEK. POR-15 doesn't. In fact, my hands won't be clean of it for quite a while. Even my dentist today laughed at my silver hands. I should have worn gloves.

The carbs were in bad shape, I broke an EZ-out trying to get one of the pilot jets out, so now I have a useless set of carbs and had to splurge on a newer set (ebay). Most of the parts are aftermarket/homemade/frankensteined on to the bike and I'm still trying to get it to look somewhat original but with my own touches where I see fit. I rattlecanned the body and am now just needing an exhaust (and to put the brakes on) before taking it out on the street. At this point I just want to get on the road, then wait until winter to make it look/run even better.

That's all I got, I'm out.

P.S. I'm glad I've had this site to refer to, or else I'd still be so lost and would have parted out the bike on ebay by now (like I did the two honda cb's I had in college, haha.)



77 KZ650 C1 (sold)
78 KZ650 B2 (sold)
78 KZ400 B1 (sold)
78 kz400 C1 (resto-mod)
78 kz400 C1 (hardtail low chop)
couple of possible project kz's in parts
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13 Jul 2006 10:41 #61697 by 77Davo650
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Oh yeah, besides the exhaust, I need to fab a seat. The towel definitely won't do. :)

77 KZ650 C1 (sold)
78 KZ650 B2 (sold)
78 KZ400 B1 (sold)
78 kz400 C1 (resto-mod)
78 kz400 C1 (hardtail low chop)
couple of possible project kz's in parts

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13 Jul 2006 11:57 #61718 by Nevco48
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Looks good so far! I would definitely put the brakes on it before you ride it. They come in handy now and again...

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13 Jul 2006 19:01 #61802 by apeman
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I enjoy seeing these bikes resurrected and put back on the road. Yours is starting to look good. Keep it up!
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Petaluma and Truckee, CA -- member since Jan. 23, 2003;
PREVIOUS KZs: 1980 KZ750H with 108,000 miles; 1980 KZ750E with 28,000 miles; and KZ750H street/cafe project, all sold a few years back.

This is what I do for fun, not for work. It is art, with a little engineering thrown in.

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13 Jul 2006 20:00 #61827 by pumps
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Hey it looks great. Show us the before AND show yourself! I saw some 650 pipes on ebay...
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1977 Yamaha XS650
2000 Kaw W650
2 KZ440 LTDs , a 79 KZ400H and an 83 Belt Drive

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