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 Post subject: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:55 am 
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A member of the UK KH&S Series board, Schurminator, has recently completed a restoration of a KH400. His attention to detail and documentation of the restoration is remarkable! He has taken over 900 photos of excellent quality. An excellent resource!
Although this is a KH400 restoration, there are many aspects of the documentation that apply to other models. It is well worth the time to look at what he has done. The documentation covers two web pages because of the number of pics included and, even then, is slow to load.
http://3cyl.com/mraxl/kh400a5/shurmresto1.htm
You can begin on page 1 and read as it was posted in time or select various build topics from the index. Click on any pic for a full size photo.
A big "Thank You" to Steve for taking the time to do a really tremendous job of documentation!

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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:39 am 
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Awesome Dale, reminded me of Soupdragons thread.
I posted a link to this thread on the Canuck forum.

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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:58 pm 

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Nice resto
Steve Schur lives not that far from me he is an aircraft engineer for Virgin so you would expect a spot on restoration from him
He finished his resto about the same time I completed my café race H1
http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae34 ... 4951423217


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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:17 pm 

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Read 1% of it, pretty impressive.

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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:42 pm 

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It's a great restoration but the thing that impresses me most is the documentation of the build. It takes a lot of extra time to take all those pics. :clap:

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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:46 am 
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Woaowwwwwwwww :o
What a great restoration. :clap:

I posted the link on the french forum where 3 or 4 guys are restoring their 400.


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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:19 pm 

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Very nice as it helps alot like the 72 h2 restoration you have on the site. :thumbup: and thanks for the hard work as it's appreciated. :D


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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:29 am 

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I remember Steve Schur from a few years back helped him with his Z1B good to see the man is still the master of restoration. I saw his old Z1B on a classic bike classified advert now painted in the classic Z1B black and maroon colours I remember he made a custom plate in brass that read DOHC 900 which went across the handlebar clamps top work Steve.


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 Post subject: Re: KH400 Restoration
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:01 pm 
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this is like the blog version of a haynes manual!
the extra time devoted to sizing up all the pics and uploading them! wow. nice work :D

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