Found a '79 to restore as my next project - "Freedom"

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Re: Looking for a '79 to restore as my next project - "Freedom"

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Wow! Those look great!
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The polished-up aftermarket headers are great looking, but for some reason they don't fit the Hunley. The left one hits both the engine and kick stand mount plus the angle is far off for even the shorty muffler. They are all shined up and looking like chrome now, but I'll probably end up putting them on eBay and looking for stock headers for the '79. Put the Hunley all back together because I have shows for it coming up. I only had one set of header gaskets left, and they are the aluminum type so I hope they work Ok.
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Re: Looking for a '79 to restore as my next project - "Freedom"

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Sold the SS pipes and a stock set should be headed my way. Hopefully arriving early next week as I am running out of things that I can do to it before putting the rear wheel back on. I've pumped the remaining fuel (about a gallon) from the tank and inspected it with a USB camera - looks good. Looking forward to putting the headers and mufflers on it, installing the rear wheel (I've already checked the bearings, cleaned and lubed both sets of splines with Honda Moly 60). Once the wheel is on I will roll it outside, hook up the auxiliary fuel cell, and try it with the rebuilt carbs. That will also be testing the conversion from Dyna S back to points so I'll check the time with a strobe. Then I'll roll it back in and jack up the front. The fork seals will need replaced and one of the tubes will be replaced from the junker bike. There is a pretty significant ding on the right tube that I believe is the cause of all of the oil that was on the motor.
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Stock headers came in today (Thanks, Witemanfromhil) right after lunch. Installed with mufflers, reinstalled rear wheel and swapped the '79 with the Hunley so I can pull the Hunley's carbs and find what is wrong/fix #2.
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Took the Hunley for an early morning shake-down ride over Norris Dam. Felt pretty good. I'll pull #2 plug this afternoon to see if I've beat the fouling problem. Then, I pulled the '79 out, hooked up fuel, and fired it up. For not having the carbs balanced and the time just set static, it sounded pretty good!.
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More good news - Hunley's #2 plug shows no sign of over-rich!
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Re: Looking for a '79 to restore as my next project - "Freedom"

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Pulled the '79 out this morning and checked the timing with a strobe - spot on! I must be getting better setting static timing. Then, balanced the carbs (were off, but balanced quickly), then took her for a spin. Rear brakes need bedded in (fronts are great) and the rear shocks/springs are way soft. The springs are two different wire size springs stacked on each other with a divider plate. I think that I have the originals from the Hunley build around somewhere. Don't know if these shocks are rebuildable but they don't feel like they are doing anything - just bouncing on the springs.
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Re: Found a '79 to restore as my next project - "Freedom"

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No, those are not rechargeable shocks, you just replace them when they do not dampen anymore.
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those are OEM shocks.... not bad for 40 years
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Swaped shocks on the '79 with a pair left from the Hunley build. Changed the mount rubbers in the shocks and mounted a handlebar that I picked up at the Barber swap meet. These shocks are dirty with rusty springs, but seem to be much firmer so I'll take the time to clean them. Handlebars have ~4" rise instead of the 9" of the others. I like them. Just need to loop the clutch cable a bit in the shelter/air cleaner area. Took her for about 25 miles and she feels pretty good although very light after the weekend two-up on the GL1800 pulling a trailer. Rode her in to the Time Warp Tea Room (Knoxville's Tuesday evening gathering place for 2-wheel addicted) this evening. Still need a bit better tune and the clutch adjusted. Clutch doesn't engage until lever is almost all the way out, then it seems to grab instead of slip. Rear brake getting better and better, and the fronts are so good that I have to use them two-finger.
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More good news - Hunley's #2 plug shows no sign of over-rich!
I seem to have the same problem. Can you tell me what the fix was in your case?
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More good news - Hunley's #2 plug shows no sign of over-rich!
I seem to have the same problem. Can you tell me what the fix was in your case?
The needle jet was wallowed out on the inside. Like to never found that! I ended up replacing it with one of the two-piece jets from a junk '79.
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1976 Yamaha RD400c
1978 GL1000 with '75 engine - the Hunley
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Been wanting to try an experiment of using Ford TFI modules triggered by the points to handle the coil current and dwell. So, today I finished up the wiring (well, I need to make it neater). Preliminary testing was good as it fired right up when I switched from normal ignition to the TFIs. But, then I ran out of gas so further work will continue when I get a petcock kit to repair a weepy petcock.

Anyway, it all connects via the six-prong plug on the front of the wiring interface. Just unplug the connector, plug the male from the TFIs into the box and the female into the cable that goes to the coils. Then unplug the condensers from the double connector near them. That's it! if a module should crap out all I'll have to do is swap back (takes less than a minute). I've read about the modules being used on drag cars. The main thing to worry about is cooling, and feel that the 1/2" aluminum blocks that sandwich the aluminum shower door rail with Arctic Cool heat transfer paste should carry away heat pretty well. Still I plan to scan them with an IR thermometer as soon as I can stress them. I see that I also need to re-route some of the cables going into the front of the interface. More PO fun!

The new white plugs go to the TFIs (yellow wire to the 1&2 Right coil, Blue to 3 & 4 Left coil). Red wires power the units from the old coil power feed that still jumpers to the coils and black leads to ground. Ballast resistor is jumpered in the plug as the TFI limits coil current to safe levels.
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Ex 2006 GL1800 - the Black Pearl SOLD! to make room for:
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1976 Yamaha RD400c
1978 GL1000 with '75 engine - the Hunley
Ex 1978 GL1000
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Ex '79 CB750F rat bike
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Re: Found a '79 to restore as my next project - "Freedom"

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The needle jet was wallowed out on the inside. Like to never found that! I ended up replacing it with one of the two-piece jets from a junk '79.
Thank you for sharing this info. I will have to keep that in mind when I tear into the carbs again (they were recently rebuilt). All four plugs looked great right after the rebuild, but then the #2 started fouling...
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