Overall, I’m pretty proud of how it turned out and I learned a lot along the way. The intent was to make it as basic as possible with enough room to still fit a skinny lady on the back. It’s a lot of fun to blast around the city on.

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The lines of the bars, tank, and seat.
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The only switch is the key ignition which i built into the battery box.

I’ll be loading it up in the back of the toyota for the trip up to Ricky’s Joint for a proper tune up soon enough.

Fresh wire and connectors.

Main harness finished.

Greasy hands and late nights. More updates to come.

Cleaned the sludge out of the oil centrifuge.

Also, stripped the shitty grey paint off the engine covers. I’ll be wet sanding them with 320grit for a dull brushed finish like I did on my 500t.

Anyone have the cylinder head cover bolts to a 360?

Rotor had some serious gouges out of it which isn’t a good sign of anything. Possible metal bits floating around?

The cam tensioner arm was frozen but I was able to break it loose using a drift.

On a positive note, I cleaned the master cylinder which was filled with dried brake fluid. However, the rubber was still in good condition so I didn’t use the rebuild kit and reassembled it.

I got out of work late tonight but was still able to make it down to the UPS store on Oregon before it closed to pick these up. FRESH RUBBER! Duro HF318 400/18

Got them put on.

Mick stopped by to chill and check out progress.

I really like the matching front and rear tires and the front fills out the fork with just enough clearance on each side.

Cleaned headset bearings and assembled. I’m missing some nuts and bolts for the triple tree, forks, headlight bucket, etc…. I’m coming up with a list and will have to hit up the metric hardware store this weekend.

I think the euro bars flipped fit perfect. The headlight sits considerably closer to the triple tree compared to the other cb’s so i think it makes the look work without gauges.

My bible. I want this on a t-shirt.

Thanks for the input on the tires. I’m going with these in 4.00-18 front and rear. only $40 each. I think it’s a standard classic looking tire and I like that it’s a front and rear.

I’m still not sold on the reasoning for a fork brace. If these guys didn’t use one, I think I’m okay.

Lots of unnecessary bits.

While I was in the groove of grinding, I cleaned up the headlight mount. This build is all about using what I have and simplifying the oem parts. I trimmed off the signal mounts and with some more grinding and a clean weld it should look nice.

One of the rough sketches.

Parts are starting to arrive! Coming home from work to a box of parts is awesome. Here I have the ignition, clutch perch, headlight visor, chain, gran turismo grips, and euro bars. I dig how they look flipped and it should work with the small front end of the 360. If it doesn’t work out, I’ll go with the clubmans.

Originally wanted to run the Firestone Dexluxe tires but at $120 each they’ll push me over budget. Right now I’m digging these in 4.00/18 which are $67 each. Dunlop site says it’s a rear only tire but I don’t see why I couldn’t run it in the front as well. It measures 4.17″ and the clearance between the forks is 4.25″. Thoughts/advise?

Next up: carb rebuild, front end mounting, stripping oem clear off all aluminum and brake rebuild!

The parts:

The list of minor parts/gaskets/carb rebuild kits/tires/etc needed….

I plan to make frequent updates on the progress as well as asking for input on the design. I hope this ends up being as rad as I think it will.