hmmmm pete,

slowed down? mine came to a grinding halt... I run a small home based business, I have a two year old and a four year old that are with me all day... my 4wd work truck spun a front axle... my fridge died... my furnace died... repaired everything but the fridge myself, bought new appliances... oh I remodeled my little girl's room, with new furniture... new carpet in the boy's room... let's see... my super nice lawn care guy was here illegally and got deported so I am back to cutting my own grass... getting too old at 48 to push a effing lawn mower so I bought a rider... all four Chinese tubes popped within 3 mows, what a chore to fix, can't get your fingers in the dinky rims... replaced several yards of rotted concrete myself... brake job on the wife's car... u joints on my work truck... this is just the last 12 months... with the pile of cash and the hours I have spent, I could have restored a whole truck load of bikes 

I think I read that you lost your job... welcome to the club... that's why I am self employed now... happened to me 4.5 years ago, lost a job of 15 years with a wife 8 months pregnant... 

hang in there brother! life gets in the way sometimes... your k0 looks fantastic mate  looking forward to the end results!

kind regards, john

hi,

needing upper two hole air box in good shape. rear rolled rim or complete wheel. narrow top bridge. exhaust system if very nice and correct-ish.

can pay $ or can trade, I have two complete k2's for parts, a k0 die cast early frame, a k0 die cast running motor, early k0 gauges/top bridge/bars/switch gear, probably some other stuff too. trades of equal value or +/- $ are preferred.

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thanks, john

thanks, that is what I suspected! it's sometimes hard to tell by looking at someone else's pictures.

so I guess I need a rim to go with the original sand cast hub, which is laced to a 16" chopper wheel. and spokes. 

this is the rear rim on my k0 donor bike. looking at pictures of the "rolled rim" correct for the sand cast, I believe this is a non-rolled rim and incorrect. opinions are greatly appreciated!! thanks!

hi Marcello,

I will soon put the entire engine up for sale. if it does not sell within about 3 months time then I will take it apart and you can have first pick on the valve cover.

 am just today pulling the engine from the donor bike. once again I had many delays, my 4wd truck had front axle failure and I do not really trust other people to work on my vehicles so I did all the repairs myself. it was dirty, tedious, and not very much fun... but I know now it has been repaired properly. the mechanics charge too much money and who knows what kind of work they do since it is all hidden! but I am slowly moving ahead on the sand cast project.

I will let you know if I take the engine apart and sell the pieces.

regards, john

A good head would be worth say $200 to $300 I doubt it would be worth much more

I have sold 3 or 4 k2 heads for $300 and up. if I were to market a k0 head I would put the price at $450 at least. it would take a while to sell, but it would sell. I have not a single k2 head left in stock and I have never sold one for less than $300. I believe the last k2 head I sold went for $350 or $400 and took about 6 months to sell. $200 is spot on if you want to sell it "fast". it is worth whatever someone will pay, and some don't have to watch the budget so well. I am an ebay power seller by the way and do it full time.

John:
      You have an excellent starting point with the available donor bike. The donor bike has most if not all the parts you need to make a pretty complete bike, especially some of the more hard to find parts. Your frame is going to be the most challenging item to work with. A good welder would not have any real concerns doing the cutting, welding and getting the frame back together correctly in a timely fashion.  Marty K.

yeah, the frame will be professionally done. I would never try and do it myself... considering my welds look like bird poop on a stick 

thanks for the encouragement!

Hi everyone,

Sorry it's been a while... last year was the year of breakdowns, had to replace the furnace and all appliances and all sorts of stuff at the house... well I am trying to get the 1767 project moving ahead. As some of you may remember, I bought K0 9394/9360 last winter for a donor bike. Honestly... I know about as much about correct sand cast donor parts as I do about women... 

I hate buying bikes over the net, without looking at them in person, which is just what I did with #9394. I am fairly disappointed with the overall finish and quality. The seat is a wreck, the chrome is pitted, the tank is so-so, the spokes are rusted, and so on. I was hoping for a much cleaner example considering what I laid out for her. The pictures on ebay sure didn't appear to be as rough as the bike is in person.

http://youtu.be/o2Dtl0blQ4w

At this point, I am just hoping that the p/o didn't swap out a lot of the correct parts for later stuff. The guy I got this from apparently deals in a lot of CB750's which may be a bad thing, for apparent reasons. Anyways, I am hopefully at the point where the sand cast and the die cast will start to come together as one. I would very much welcome your comments, observations, and suggestions regarding the use of these donor parts.

And just to refresh my project basis, #1767 was badly butchered by its p/o with a bad chopper job, the frame was totally hacked up for fat bob tanks and a king/queen chopper seat... swing pin welded to make it a rigid... exhaust pipes sawzalled off... I basically have a good running low mile (8-9k miles) motor, gauges, controls, front wheel, carbs, and a few other bits from 1767. I bought a k0 frame and swing arm (actually haven't checked them out well yet) and will have the "good" front half of frame 1767 professionally mated to the rear section of the untitled k0 donor frame I bought.

Any thoughts, good or bad, are much appreciated regarding the use of #9394 as a donor bike!!

Cheers, John