{"id":1269,"date":"2011-06-04T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:22:03","slug":"project-update-forks-are-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/04\/project-update-forks-are-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Update:  Forks Are Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The motorcycle restoration project took a few steps forward today. \u00a0I finally got some time to disassemble the front forks. \u00a0I&#8217;ve ordered new seals and dust covers for the forks to ensure that they won&#8217;t leak fluid. \u00a0I was quite pleased to find the fork shafts to be in excellent shape, with not a single sign of pitting or roughness. \u00a0I&#8217;ll reassemble the forks when the new seals and fork oil arrive.<\/p>\n<p>I also painted a few more black parts, such as the lower engine mounts and the fork &#8220;triple tree&#8221; bridges. \u00a0Finally, I managed to take some good old fashioned Brillo pads to the spokes and to some tiny rust spots on the wheel rimes. \u00a0They cleaned up pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>When I get the forks back together and mounted on the frame, I&#8217;ll start the reassembly of the motorcycle. \u00a0I have the first two weeks of July off work, so I&#8217;m expecting to make some progress with the assembly. \u00a0The bike was manufactured in October 1971 &#8230; wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have it running by this October, in time for its 40th birthday?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1270\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wwwIMG_3051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1270\" title=\"wwwIMG_3051\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wwwIMG_3051-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front forks disassembled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The motorcycle restoration project took a few steps forward today. \u00a0I finally got some time to disassemble the front forks. \u00a0I&#8217;ve ordered new seals and dust covers for the forks &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,52,88],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-cb175","tag-honda","tag-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}