Honda XL600 650 V Transalp XR750 Africa Twin Service Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD
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Honda XL600 650 V Transalp XR750 Africa Twin Service Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD
Introduction
- There Is no better example of the Japanese post-war industrial miracle than Honda. Uke other companies Which have become household names, it started with one man’s vision. In this case the man was the 40-year old Honda who had sold his piston-ring manufacturing business to Toyota In 1945 and was happily spending the proceeds on prolonged parties for his friends. However, the difficulties of getting around in the chaos of post-war Japan irked Honda.
- so when he came across a job lot or generator engines he that here was a way of getting people mobile again at low cost. A 12 by 18-foot shack in Hamamatsu became his first bike factory, fitting the generator motors into pushbikes. Before long he’d used up all 500 generator motors and started manufacturing his own engine, known as the ‘chimney’, either because of the elongated cylinder head or the smoky exhaust or perhaps both The chimney made all of a horsepower from Its 50 cc engine but it was a major success and became the Honda A-type.
- Less than two years after he’d set up in Hamamatsu, Honda founded the Honda Motor Company in September 1948. By then, the A-type had been developed Into the 90 cc B-type engine, which Mr Honda decided deserved its own chassis not a bicycle frame. Honda was about to become Japan’s first post-war manufacturer of complete motorcycles. In August 1949 the first prototype was ready.
- With an output of three horsepower, the 98 cc 0-type was still a simple two-stroke but it had a two-speed transmission and most importantly a pressed steel frame with telescopic forks and hard tail rear end. The frame was almost triangular In profile with the top rail going In a straight line from the massively braced steering head to the rear axle. Legend has It that after the 0- type’s first tests the entire workforce went for a drink to celebrate and try and think of a name for the bike. One man broke one of those silences you get when people are thinking, exclaiming ‘This Is !Ike a dream!’ ‘That’s it!’ shouted Honda, and so the Honda Dream was christened.
- This is Bike a dream l’ ‘That’s it· shouted Honda M r Honda was a , intuitive engineer and designer but he did not bother himself with the marketing side of his business. With hindsight, It is possible lo see that employing Takeo Fujisawa who would both sort out the home market and plan the eventual expansion into overseas markets was a masterstroke. He arrived In October 1949 and in 1950 was made Sales Director.
- Another vital new name was Kiyosh1 Kawashima, who along with Honda himself, designed the company’s first four-stroke after Kawashima had told them that the four-stroke opposition to Honda’s two-strokes sounded nicer and therefore sold better. The result of that statement was the overhead-148 rE-type which first ran in July 1951 just two months after the first drawings were made. Kawashima was made a director of the Honda Company at 34 years old. The E-type was a massive success, over 32,000 were made in 1953 alone.
- a feat of mass-production that was astounding by the standards of the day given the relative complexity of the machine. But Honda’s lifelong pursuit ot technical Innovation sometimes distracted him from commercial reality. Fujisawa pointed out that they were in danger of ignoring their core business, the motorised bicycles that stlll formed Japan’s main means of transport. in May 1952 the F-type Cub appeared, another two-stroke despite the top men’s reservations. You could buy a complete machine or just the motor to attach to your own bicycle.
- The result was certainly distinctive, a white fuel tank with a circular profile went just below and behind the saddle on lhe lett of the bike, and the motor with its horlz.ontal cylinder and brfght red cover just below the rear axle on the same side of the bike. Thls was the machine that turned Honda Into the biggest bike maker in Japan with 70% of the market for bolt-on bicycle motors, the F-type was also the first Honda to be exported.
- Next came the machine that would turn Honda Into the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the world. The C100 Super Cub was a typically audacious piece of Honda engineering and marketing, For the first time, but no1 the last Honda invented a completely new type of motorcycle, al though the term ·scooterette’ was coined to describe the new bike which had many of the characteristics of a scooter but the large wheels, and therefore stability, of a motorcycle. The first one was sold In August 1958, fifteen years later over nine-million of them were on the roads of the world.
- ll ever a machine can be said to have brought mobility to the masses it is the Super Cub. If you add Introduction o•5 The CB250N Super Dream became a favorite with UK learner riders of the late seventies and early eighties In the electric starter that was added for the C102 model of 1961 , the design of the Super Cub has remained substantially unchanged ever since, testament to how right Honda got It first time. The Super Cub made Honda the world’s biggest manufacturer after Just two years of production
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Honda XL600 650 V Transalp XR750 Africa Twin Service Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD
00 Contents, intro, specifications.... 1 01 Routine maintenance, service....... 22 02 Engine, clutch, tranmissison....... 50 03 Cooling system.....................120 04 Fuel and exhaust...................128 05 Ignition system....................151 06 Frame, suspension, final drive.....159 07 Brakes, wheels, tyres..............186 08 Bodywork...........................212 09 Electrical system..................222 Ref: Bearings.........................275 Ref: Gaskets..........................278 Ref: Chains...........................279 Ref: Conversion factors...............281 Ref: Fault findings...................282
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Aldo Eugene –
Looks good….haven’t used it yet