750 Katana Resurrection

[steve murdoch]

Body work with a tie-down? That's a new one for me.
I spy a baby Kat?

[KiwiAlfa156]

Body work with a tie-down? That's a new one for me.
I spy a baby Kat?

Seemed to be the logical way to achieve the result. And yes that's a 650. I've reposted the resto of the Six-Fiddy from another forum as a GSResources restoration thread.

[psyguy]

I think I'm brake rotor obsessed... That cat in the background has two right hand rotors on the front wheel, I believe...

[KiwiAlfa156]

I think I'm brake rotor obsessed... That cat in the background has two right hand rotors on the front wheel, I believe...

That'd be correct, it's how that arrived too. I have a couple of sets of front rotors. Until I do something about it, you'll just have to look away.

[Grimly]

I recently bought a pair of nearly-new front discs. The fact that they're both LH means nothing to me. I really couldn't care less.
They were being sold cheap as an unmatched pair for less than half the price a used matched pair would be, even well used.

[Nessism]

BRAKE DISC
59211-45250

Both RH and LH discs are the same PN

[KiwiAlfa156]

BRAKE DISC
59211-45250

Both RH and LH discs are the same PN

CMSNL lists RH 59211-45250 LH 59221-45250 (difference is the fourth digit)

[KiwiAlfa156]

I recently bought a pair of nearly-new front discs. The fact that they're both LH means nothing to me. I really couldn't care less.
They were being sold cheap as an unmatched pair for less than half the price a used matched pair would be, even well used.

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Can't see 'em when your riding. I'd actually forgotten that the 650 had mismatched front discs.

[Grimly]

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Can't see 'em when your riding. I'd actually forgotten that the 650 had mismatched front discs.

Exactly, and nobody's going to get a chance to see 'em as I whip past them too fast.

[Nessism]

CMSNL lists RH 59211-45250 LH 59221-45250 (difference is the fourth digit)

I stand corrected. Sorry.

[KiwiAlfa156]

I stand corrected. Sorry.

No need to be sorry my friend.

[KiwiAlfa156]

Fairing sub-frame reassembled. Old headlight in as a place holder. A little tweaking required to align everything.

[KiwiAlfa156]

Next little job was straightening a buckled front guard





Not perfect, but ok by me.

[KiwiAlfa156]

Caliper piston kit and headlight arrived (finally). Fitted



The headlight doesn't have a fitting for the park light, but the LED indicators that I have for this bike have running lights, so I'll wire these to the park light out put.



The plan going forward is assemble the rear mudguard/tail light assembly (which I've painted). And refit the wiring loom. Unfortunately the coils look a bit poo, with some unsightly cracks.

[Grimly]

If you're not a slave to originality, fit a pair of MP08 coils from a Honda CBr1000, Glodwing, etc. Dirt cheap, common as muck and dead reliable.
They also have a dead handy feature of having easily replaceable leads.