Progress on this build tends to come in two flavors. Either something comes off easier than expected or you spend an hour disconnecting wires one at a time before the thing you actually wanted to...
Category: CB750F Restoration
The workbench is finally built, the seat cover is finally off, and the 1976 Honda CB750F seat pan rust situation is officially worse than I was hoping for. My dad got the stuck fasteners sorted with...
There is a lesson buried in this episode and it is not a subtle one. The CB750F seized caliper piston that I had been fighting since removing the rear brake caliper weeks ago, the one that survived...
There are sessions on this restoration where you make real progress. Then there are sessions where the more you dig in, the worse things look. This was one of those. The CB750F seat pan went from "I...
One of the things I genuinely like about this old bike is how it keeps surprising me. The CB750F trunk removal was supposed to be a quick clean-it-and-move-on job. Instead it turned into a time...
The last session ended with a hard lesson learned about carb cleaner and painted metal. After accidentally softening the paint during the rear fork cleaning, the only real path forward was to scuff...