As above the CL ad and loaded up to drag home.
A little over three weeks later.
Still some more to go but she's a rider.
Put on 35 miles tonight.
(A rather shiftless sort of ride)
Gas tank was ugly inside but scrubbed, boiled and electrolysis (ized) then cleaned blew cleaned scrubbed and blew some more.
I put on an extra filter then realized in addition to the stand pipe filter the petcock has a bottom filter. Think I know how that's going to look when I pull it in the morning.
It has a vacuum pot "in gear, fast idle" that will need some adjustment or maybe a cut out, cuz going down hills it eliminates engine braking. The next year Honda added a speedo based cut out switch to it so engine braking happens.
Two speeds and you can just leave it in second use the torque converter to launch unless you want "extra" acceleration at low speed.
kinda fun to go stop go with just throttle. Other than that it's like every other single cam Honda 750.
Took me three tries to get the carbs right. A bit fiddly but not super hard to in n out them. Accelerator pump took a bit of fiddling, to get all 4 cylinders squirting.
A PO had used silicone seal to hold the float bowl seals in to assemble, that didn't go well, but think i found all the bits n pieces of gooey that went all over.. I used a small amount of grease to hold the seals to assemble, which worked fine. Other than some 40 year old electrics trouble shooting (cold solder joints found and fixed) and the usual wake up drill of, brakes, fuel, points, lots of cleaning, touch up, rust removal, etc. no big issues. Gotta make the horn beep yet.
Now that it runs I ordered new tires, chain and sprockets, the right battery, and few other items. Camping trip bike? hmmm.