Refitting 500/4 Carbs

[pritchard1921]

Hi everyone. Probably an old question but when putting carbs back on do I fit them to inlet manifold rubbers 1st and then put air box rubbers on to carbs and air box. Any help and advice would be welcome. Cheers

[SteveD CB500K0]

Yes.

Feed them in from the right hand side (when sitting on the bike) and waggle them onto the inlet rubbers.

Then fit the airbox chamber.

Works for me.

[pritchard1921]

Thanks I will give that a go. Cheers.

[andy_c101]

I find it best to leave the rubber air inlets completely off; then mount the carbs to the engine cyl.hd. alloy inlets first.
Soak the ruber inlets in a jug of hot/boiling water to soften them (at this time of year), then with either cyl 2 or 3 first, carefully scrunch the rubber intake and 'just manipulate' it over the carb intake throat, then onto the air filter manifold box.
It is very 'fiddly' but you will develop the technique.
Sometimes having a BLUNT screw driver or narrow spatulata often helps.
Good luck
Oh and on completion.....apply bandaids to knuckles!


(I'm sure there's over threads on this on here somewhere if you search.)