My 1968 Honda S800 Re-build


So I got it home Sat morn, had a mobile painter come round and painted the doors, frames and boot.

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Then I had to look after my son till wife got home at 5, I shot out to garage to start working on it. Fitted the boot hinges, full set of new coolant hoses, rad, adjust timing belt, replacement leads, fuel pipes, mesh grill and exterior chrome grill, fuel pump. Thought I best stop and go to bed as it was 2am!

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Sunday fitted the roof insulation, filled g-box and engine with oil and coolant, fitted fuel tank, fuel cap, front indicators, door light switches, stainless steel straight through tail pipes. Best of all started it and ran her for about 30 mins ::). Finished at 00:30!

Today 2/3 fitted roof lining and had enough by 21:30.

I will get some pics soon.

Dunx
 
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Nice marathon session you had going on! Hats off!
Cant wait to see some pics!
 
Wow this has come on leaps and bounds! Good work!

Must be looking good for Japfest if you've already got it running!
 
Today got some of the front back together before tea time.

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Fitted rear bumper and boot lock this morning

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Painted behind fuel tank before fitting not that you can ever see there ::)

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Finally finished the roof lining this morning, looks good if i say so myself!

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Came in at 11pm having fitted driver head light, front bumper, number plates. Look very shiney at the front now.
Pics to follow
 
I can officially say that I'm jealous! :nice: That is one nice build! Can't wait to see it finished!
 
Must be nearly there for the body now mate :)
Looks beautiful :)
 
Been working my tits off but the end is in sight. Only real prpblems are i cant get main beam to work and i also need to get a couple of sealed beam head light bulbs.
Here is how she looked this afternoon, by close of play had all carpets and drivers door on.

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Hi
This morning got the door handles re-assembled and fitted to doors. Also had to carefully re-drill the door mirror holes. Then finally fitted doors to car. This was the easy job.
The hard bit was coaxing the washer pump back into life. Took 2 1/2hrs but got it going again in the end, but don't know how long for.
Really pissed off as looks like i might have to remove the dash to connect the washer pipes to the washers!

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Good news took it for MOT, passed first time :))

Bad news is she smokes like a steam train. Pored in some "stop smoke" which has helped but just can't really go over 50mph.

Think I might just get up extra early for JapFest and take it easy with plenty of oil for top up's.

Dunx
 
Right the jobs i got done this afternoon were to straighten out and remove as much as i could the dents in the roof, door and rear qtr edge trims.

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Normally qtr and door trims are held on with metal clips that you cant get off and they scratch the paint off. on the qtr I'm just using screw fixings on each end and not bothering with the 7 or so clips. On the door trims im just using two instead of five.

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Popped the hub caps on, bit beaten up but all i have got.

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Got the bonnet on.

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Also interior back in but need to redo door cards.

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Seats are actually very comfy

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Got the wing badges all painted up.

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