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Continuing on from my member introduction..
This project has been a year in the making and I am about halfway through to where I want the bike to be. I bought my 1970 CL350 a year ago from a guy in Georgia. Got a notorized Bill of sale and took it to Tennessee where they issued me a title. Score! The whole idea behind this bike was to build a vintage bike into a tracker/ desert sled inspired bike that could be ridden on pavement and hit a few gravel roads in Eastern Tennessee.
The bike a year ago. Non running but solid bones. I didn't have a compression tester but it would kick over although the kickstarter was slipping. The exhaust had been cut and the previous owners already had VM30 Mikunis installed. They said they never could get the jetting right and as discovered later they were using way to large jets.
The bike as of two weeks ago .The motor is currently out for a rebuild as I stripped a spark plug and at that point I wanted to do it right and remove the head. I discovered heavy pitting on the right cylinder exhaust valve cam lobe and rocker arm. At that point I knew I wanted a rebuild and also get that pesky slipping kickstarter fixed while I was at it.
This project has been a year in the making and I am about halfway through to where I want the bike to be. I bought my 1970 CL350 a year ago from a guy in Georgia. Got a notorized Bill of sale and took it to Tennessee where they issued me a title. Score! The whole idea behind this bike was to build a vintage bike into a tracker/ desert sled inspired bike that could be ridden on pavement and hit a few gravel roads in Eastern Tennessee.
The bike a year ago. Non running but solid bones. I didn't have a compression tester but it would kick over although the kickstarter was slipping. The exhaust had been cut and the previous owners already had VM30 Mikunis installed. They said they never could get the jetting right and as discovered later they were using way to large jets.

The bike as of two weeks ago .The motor is currently out for a rebuild as I stripped a spark plug and at that point I wanted to do it right and remove the head. I discovered heavy pitting on the right cylinder exhaust valve cam lobe and rocker arm. At that point I knew I wanted a rebuild and also get that pesky slipping kickstarter fixed while I was at it.
