I have the desire to restore some bikes, but not the budget anymore, so i just keep my 1 or 2 bikes i own running, and ride. But luckily i can live vicariously through your channel :)

I recommend you keep a large Garden Sprayer filled with the cleaner solution you prefer. Much easier to dispense than a hand trigger sprayer. I keep an assortment of these garden sprayers for various liquids I use. Just makes life easier. Simple Green diluted with water is my #1 dirt remover.

I miss my '81 cb900 custom. I did the same thing with the engine. It was a beautiful bike. I just got scared with an incident and decided right then that my motorcycle days were over. I hastily sold it and made a deal with myself to never ride again. I wish I still had that bike. Even Harley guys thought it was cool and never gave me any crap when I parked next to their pieces of junk. It had shaft drive, adjustable air suspension, and a dual band transmission. At 80mph I was cruising at about 4k. I had no fairing or bags but still took it on long trips. It was a beast. My best was a 500 mile trip in 5 hours with 5 stops for gas along I-10. I was going over 120 mph for most of the trip. I didn't even take my helmet off to run in and pay for gas. Before I was at the end of each entrance ramp I was already going well over 100. The 85 mph speedo was pegged the entire trip. I was 25. Now I'm 58. I'm glad I lived through that part of my life, but I sure do miss that bike. I hope it wound up in the capable hands of a man like you.

Nice work. Good job 👍

You have a nice collection of bikes. Remember these from when they were current they never really court on round my area but thing lack of dealers might not have helped.

Nice job, looking good!

Looks great! I'm going to start working on a 900F. I'm curious why you left the front sprocket on? Wouldn't it be easier to clean that area with the sprocket out of the way? And I assume it's going to get replaced anyway? Also, is that a specific tape you used for masking? While I've done a fair bit of regular maintenance on my Vulcan S, this will be my first experience tearing a bike down and putting it back together... looking forward to learning a ton!!! So glad to have found these videos! Thanks so much!!!

Hi If its hard to get an engine down how do you drop a whole bike to ground level.

Sorry but got to say not a big fan of the silver paint on the cooling fins. Other then that about like the way I do it. Thanks man for the vid and keeping the old bikes alive!

Sorry you said it is hard to get the engine to ground level if you wanted to jet wash. How do you get a whole bike out of your 1st floor work shop.

Plenty of work done on the engine and its looking good, just one thing though, the edge of the fins on the cylinder head should be polished and not painted.