{"id":594,"date":"2007-03-05T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2007-03-05T20:41:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T10:41:26","slug":"postie-bike-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Postie bike rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress! The Honda CT110 oversize piston kit arrived and the cylinder has now been rebored to fit the new piston.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image588\" alt=\"piston kit\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ct110reborekit.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And with Sharon starting to be on the mend I took the opportunity during her sleep to start reassembly of Eve&#8217;s bike. First the new piston went on smoothly &#8211; the new piston pin slid neatly onto the connecting rod and the pisoton was secured with the new piston clips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image589\" alt=\"ct110 piston\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ct110pistonfit.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After fitting the piston rings it was time to start on the barrel &#8211;  there was a lot of rust and dirt on the barrel so I cleaned the exterior using kero brushed on and then a drill-mounted bronze wire brush.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image590\" alt=\"CT110 cylinder\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ct110barrel-clean.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the tricky bit &#8211; fitting the cylinder without breaking the piston rings. After fitting a new bottom gasket I tackled the fitting. Not having a piston ring compression tool I used finger pressure to squeeze the rings closed as I gently lowered the barrel over the piston. This requires patience and eventually got it ride smoothly over the piston.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image591\" alt=\"CT110 cylinder\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ct110barrel-fitted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>taking care to thread the cam chain through. Then I fitted the cam sprocket to the cam chain and held it all in place with some thin wire.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the head. I cleaned the carbon out of the combustion chamber and the valves, and removed the remnants of the previous gasket, before cleaning the outside of the head thoroughly and fitting a new head gasket.<\/p>\n<p>I lowered this gently in place and then, after making sure the crankshaft was at top dead centre, I installed the cam through the cam chain sprocket and bolted it in place, using a small 10mmsocket wrench. I set the other socket wrench on the timing end of the crankshaft to stop the cranckshaft rotating when I tightened up the sprocket bolts.<\/p>\n<p>Once in place it was a relatively quick process to install the covers with their respective new gaskets, so it looks nearly complete.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image592\" alt=\"CT110 engine\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ct10left.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next step was to refit the carburettor inlet manifold &#8211; with its new gasket &#8211; and then the exhaust.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image593\" alt=\"CT110 engine\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ct110right.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like a new engine now! And in many ways it is &#8211; it will need running in of course. But before I can test start it I want to get the footpegs and bash-plate back on &#8211; so more to come on this rebuild \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress! The Honda CT110 oversize piston kit arrived and the cylinder has now been rebored to fit the new piston. And with Sharon starting to be on the mend I took the opportunity during her sleep to start reassembly of Eve&#8217;s bike. First the new piston went on smoothly &#8211; the new piston pin slid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-motorcycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}