She lives again

dppeter · Post by **dppeter** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:42 am

A couple days ago I finally got one of the Superhawks I have been working on done. I put this one together out of a lot of parts (I have a few old ones that have been sitting in my barn). Rebuilt the engine - bored to S4, carbs, checked all the bearings etc. She started up on the second kick and with a little carb adjustment runs pretty well. After working on this one for the last month or more it was nice to get her together and running. I went through everything on this bike and even though some of my parts didn't start out as pristine as I would like she came out pretty well. I took the time to clean/paint/refurbish a lot of my other extra parts as well and went ahead and built up two more engines - one a CB and one a CL. The extra CB is bored to S12 (337cc). I'll try and get another body done this winter so my son and I can ride the two of them. The extra CL engine is destined for an old chopper frame that it came out of. All I can say is it is a thrill to be working on these again. At the moment I'm having a ball!

prima5star · Post by **prima5star** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:08 pm

Sounds like you work fast. I wish I had the time to get an engine together in a month. Post some pictures so we can see your work!

dppeter · Post by **dppeter** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:53 am

prima5star wrote:Sounds like you work fast. I wish I had the time to get an engine together in a month. Post some pictures so we can see your work!

The first engine took a while to finish, mostly because I hadn't worked on these for a few years. I forgot the retainers for the transmission shaft (the ones that look like a half a piston ring). So I had to pull the engine out, split the crankcase and install them. Then I realized I had forgotten the "o" rings that go with the head gasket so I had to take that apart again and install them. You have to understand I was really putting this engine together from parts. I took a few of these engines apart long ago and stored them, didn't touch them for years and now am back in the game. The second and third engine I did went together very quickly. Mostly because I had already cleaned and checked all the parts, painted the covers/cases/heads. The third one went together in an afternoon including the carb rebuilds. I hate to admit how many things I have forgotten about these engines. My old brain cells are trying to recall everything again and as I said before, it's been a lot of fun. This time around I have just a tad more money so I can replace some of those items that I would have just used before and though - "hey, that's close enough".
I'll get some pictures posted of things as soon as I am able.
Take care

dppeter · Post by **dppeter** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:42 pm

Here are a couple pictures of my restored bike. Don't jump me about the mix of late and early model parts. I put this together out of misc parts from my barn collection. I think she came out pretty well. I couldn't find a chain guard so I made one from sheet metal and painted it up to match.

dppeter · Post by **dppeter** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:43 pm

Another picture

dppeter · Post by **dppeter** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:44 pm

Final picture

scum · Post by **scum** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:49 pm

Looks good man. The bike came out great.
Kinda looks like my pile of locked up CB77 motors you have there... :)