Quite a bit , before sunup and after dark too , the old Stanley seal beam is working O.K. .

So , Thursday after my pre dawn ride , coffee and Tech Writing , I puttered on home and replaced the chain and 45 T rear sprocket , cleaned up lots of  chain lube spatter from the rear of the Moto .

Nice Japanese made chain but Honda N.A. has discontinued the sprocket so I got one from Parts Unlimited , sadly it's Taiwanese but it'll work until I fine a N.O.S. Japanese one at the Moto Swap or perhaps Ohio Cycle etc .

I'm officially well pleased and anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new Stanley seal beam and chrome ring along with a Winker Kit ~ I'm a firm believer in Winkers along with any other Safety Equipments I can find and use .

I'm now ' On The Hunt ' for a yellow milk crate to replace the old black one and will likely install one of those silly looking but impossible to ignore , Bicycle LED's that blink , for safety's sake .

John Pardue kindly wrote me up a detailed early model alternator test and diagnosis Tech Sheet and I used it to sort out the non color coded alternator leads on my '70 CT90K2 .

If anyone needs it , I'll post it in the electrical section .

As long as I had the rear wheel off , I cleaned out the accumulated brake dust from the brake drum and shoes , re assembled and moved the brake actuating arm clockwise one spline to bring the geometry into correct alignment ~ the brake arm should met the pull rod at *exactly* 90° just as the brake shoes begin to make contact ~ any sooner and you'll have dangerously grabby brakes , any later and you'll have slow brakes that require too much pedal pressure to work .

Of course our Government got into this and requires the post 1969 models to have asymetric splines & shafts so you only have a few splines worth of adjustment but it's well worth your time & effort to ensure the brake linkages are properly set up and adjusted .