'78 WR (OR?) Restoration

Ahh .... using a brass wheel ! Did that a while ago whilst wearing an old padded shirt. I put that shirt in the washing machine a day or so later (can you see where this is going !). The brass shrapnel embedded in the shirt from the wheeling found it's way out while in the washer. Carefully distributing it throughout the wash. Needless to say I was a little unpopular with the rest of the family. I still find the odd tiny piece of brass wire in a garment now

lucky the washing machine didnt pooh itself....real mr popular then

Brass wheel for me too. I wear an apron. Worst part is that I move the machine outside so as not to contaminate the area with plating dust, but its cold. And then the spinning wheel creates a wind chill effect on your fingers. The labors we go through.

Looking good so far.

hahaha, the bench grinder wind chill does suck

No, no it really blows

Nice pun. Well with my wheel centering setback on my '77CR250 I will be shifting over to this bike. Frame spent a long time at the powder coat shop, guy had to do it three times, for some reason the metal was off-gassing. The cynic in me thought he did not bake it enough during the prep process, but he did not charge any extra so all good.

The opening at the axle in the 1978 swingarm has about 1 1/2" additional width in the opening. I had a similiar but not identical problem putting a wheel into a 1976 swingarm. After getting a 78 OR frame, the spacers that came with the rear wheel just worked.

Yes, 1976 seems to be the crossover year. My '77CR swingarm has the same axle opening as several '78 swingarms that I have head the pleasure to come in contact with the past month.

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Very nice Hd401, I didn't realize palm trees grew in Sweden or Burnett's !
But I can make an acception this time.

Palm Trees? Never saw them

Nice!

six "Ingas from sveeeden" excellent..(the last one looks a little out of place)

Swedish Bikini Team. (outta your palce and into mine , Suprize ) LOL

Let's talk tanks for this bike.

1. What was the shape of the correct tank for the '78WR?
2. Before I look into restoring the yellow breadbox, or other breadbox, are there alloy ones that were larger than the 1970's "cigar" type tanks?

The correct WR tank is steel. See this link HERE It should be page 8 of my rebuild, with a sorry looking WR tank. Further on in the thread is the tank finished.
The 78 WR tank has one petcock and no balance pipe. The tap has on/reserve/off functions. The genuine taps are still available new.
The alloy tanks are smaller and were fitted to the CR models.

wow great build! I have a NOS petcock. So I will now be hunting for a steel tank, I'm thinking the yellow one that came with bike is dented too much. Will be going with the same paint scheme - black and gold.