Honda-SOHC

General => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: Fischmann on April 18, 2022, 10:06:01 PM

Title: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Fischmann on April 18, 2022, 10:06:01 PM: I've been lurking her for a while, and now I have nabbed myself a 78 CB550 K3 in need of a rebuild. I'll be plumbing the extensive knowledge base here re tips on rebuilding and sourcing supplier and services over the coming months – wish me luck!
Cheers!
Fischmann
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Nurse Julie on April 18, 2022, 10:08:25 PM: Welcome to the forum and enjoy your project.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Bryanj on April 18, 2022, 10:35:55 PM: Im in Gloucester, you can bring me anything except the carbs to help with!
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Moorey on April 19, 2022, 10:01:34 AM: Welcome to the forum and have fun.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on April 19, 2022, 10:22:07 AM: Welcome to the forum tbh I know nothing about the CB750's aside from looking cool back in the day.

Do not be misled by my ststus as sohc Master I am very much still a learner - good news is I am climbing out of the learning dip I can see the learning curve on the near horizon.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Johnny4428 on April 19, 2022, 10:45:08 AM: Hello and welcome to the forum, I have a 77 550k3 that I restored so any help I can pass on I will be delighted, although far more knowledgable people on here for sure.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: SteveW on April 19, 2022, 11:35:05 AM: Welcome, just down the road from you in Stokenchurch.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 19, 2022, 11:49:30 AM: Quote from: Bryanj on April 18, 2022, 10:35:55 PM
Im in Gloucester, you can bring me anything except the carbs to help with!

I love doing carbs, :D

Welcome to thje forum everyone's great on here and the more questions the better, you've never met more knowledgeable bunch of buggers in your life (not me I just bumble about but I have OCD so it helps) ;D

Enjoy the process, its very, very, rewarding.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Fischmann on April 19, 2022, 01:59:09 PM: Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!

The bike should be with me in a week or two and then I will take a good look at it before commencing the strip down – I'll be going for a non-standard mild-to-medium custom look, nothing too outrageous though – I'll start a project thread once it's here

It's been many years since I worked on a bike, in fact around 40 years, so my limited experience has faded – I had a fizzy, a DT100, a DT175, all of which I tinkered with and then moved over to cars, so expect lots of questions

Cheers!
Dean
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Oddjob on April 19, 2022, 02:40:15 PM: Clearly Roo you've never done a bank of K3 carbs. I've seen jigsaws with no picture on the box look easier.

Best thing is to replace them with a set of 550F carbs. Need to use the inlet manifolds as well though.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Laverda Dave on April 19, 2022, 02:45:33 PM: Welcome to the forum and enjoy the rebuild.
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 20, 2022, 12:39:40 AM: Quote from: Oddjob on April 19, 2022, 02:40:15 PM
Clearly Roo you've never done a bank of K3 carbs. I've seen jigsaws with no picture on the box look easier.

Best thing is to replace them with a set of 550F carbs. Need to use the inlet manifolds as well though.

That bad Ken?

In which case, I HATE carbs me, never enjoyed doing them. In fact I swapped mine for a set off an F2. Much easier ::) ::) ::) ;D
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Bryanj on April 20, 2022, 01:35:56 AM: Yes Roo they ARE that bad!
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: philward on April 20, 2022, 09:44:28 PM: Welcome to the forum - enjoy!
Title: Re: Hello from Oxford
Post by: Yetanotherbike on April 21, 2022, 09:10:20 AM: Welcome to the forum.
I'm something of a newbie here myself. There is a LOT of knowledge in this forum and a lot of helpful people here too.
I was going to wish you good luck with your project, but you won't need luck, just time and money, anything you'll need to know is right here!

Regards Robert