I just finished rebuilding my cb650 engine.
The engine leaked a shit ton of oil from the rubber o-rings around the head gasket. (Common 4cyl problem on old Hondas.)
My engine fins have always been completely covered with caked on oil, grease and dirt. If you didn’t already know, the engine fins are what cool your engine. So to say the least, my engine prolly wasn’t properly cooling itself as much as it should have been. No matter how much I cleaned it, 2 weeks later it was gross again.
In my plan to reduce overall engine temperatures, and efficiency, I’m doing a new gasket kit, having the cylinder jugs measured, and having the cylinder head pressure tested to see if everything is still within spec. Possibly installing an oil cooler.
View this projectin a couple weeks he’s flying out to Portland with his buddy, and riding road bikes from Portland, all the way down rt.1 through California, down to Tijuana. Pretty fuckin awesome!
So Alice’s is a vintage motorcycle restaurant along the way that might be cool to check out.
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February 14th, 2010 at 11:28 am
thanks holmes..
it’s actually not that far off my route, and sounds like the road could be pretty interesting, so maybe i’ll have to detour and ck it out.
February 14th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
damn, i was literally two minutes from that place when i was shooting in Santa Cruz but didnt have time to check it out! Bummer!