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Well, with a few days off over the hol­days, I’ve got­ten the 305 Dream to the point where I don’t believe there is any­thing unsal­vagable here, and it won’t take an exor­bi­tant amount of mon­ey to put this thing back on the road in nice shape. The last few hours of work have been to get … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Near­ly ready for paint, prep, and parts-gathering”

Well, I now have the engine out of the frame, and the cylin­der head and both side cas­es off. The news isn’t all bad. Most of the engine looks in fine shape inter­nal­ly, as you can see here: obvi­ous­ly, this engine has been sealed up, and has the low mileage indi­cat­ed by the odome­ter (5129).   …

Con­tin­ue read­ing “The engine begins to reveal it’s secrets”

Well, I am part way through the dis­as­se­bly of our Hon­da 305 Dream project. Some has gpne pret­ty smooth­ly, a few bits are being obsti­nate. One of the easy parts was the cool alu­mini­um carb cov­er: the right hand engine cov­er is being obsti­nate, the screws are rust­ed and only 4 have bro­ken loose so far, … 

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Part way through disassembly…”