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« on: May 31, 2021, 05:53:48 PM »
Hi again, I ordered an exhaust to collector box gasket from David Silvers and this is what came, and it was way tooo big does anyone have their exhaust off at the moment that could measure the collector box neck and the exhaust internal measurements, mine is 38mm at the collector neck
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« on: May 30, 2021, 11:51:31 AM »
Excellent write up by Nurse Julie about setting float heights but does it make a difference if you just have your carbs horizontal and leveled out with a spirt level, like i watched on youtube, I ask this as when I changed the float valves because the carbs were overflowing, I just set them level. The springs in the new valves were a lot softer and I found I had to adjust all the floats considerably to 21mm, put back on bike they overflowed, not pouring just a constant drip, took off checked the levels then set at 22mm put back on still the carbs dripped down the overflow pipes, I had to settle on 23mm to get the carbs to stop dripping, it didn't help that one of the overflow pipes in the float bowls was fractured and took a lot of identifying only to find out later it is a common fault(hind sight is a great thing) I did consider putting the original float valves back in with just new rubbers any thoughts on that and would it affect tick over in my other thread.
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« on: May 28, 2021, 09:47:00 PM »
Hi again, bike is all put back together, fired it up and but when it gets warm, I've got tick over at about 1k or just over and the bike will surge to 2k then settle back then surge again, I'm thinking it might be an air leak, but I didn't disturb the inlet rubbers, I'm wondering if it's time to pull the carbs off again for the upteenth time.
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« on: May 25, 2021, 12:33:08 PM »
This could be the first stupid question I ask but here goes, I'm currently giving a CB400f what I call a sympathetic restoration others my think I've gone too far, I would have included a pic but I can't crop it down that far, but I bought a set of mirrors for the bike, they fit but the right mirror because it screws into the brake lever what is built up and the clutch lever isn't it makes one mirror higher than the other, my question is should it be like that or should the left mirror have a longer stalk if you get my drift. For the purists what is the correct mirror if anyone cares, my mirrors don't look like the one in the photo I've attached, it was just one I came across.
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« on: May 25, 2021, 12:13:54 PM »
Hi all, sorry if this in the wrong place, I did join the wrong site, I thought they were all affiliated but Nurse Julie suggested I join this one as more people own a CB400f, thanks for that. I have had quite a few bikes in the past and thought I'd hung my boots up for good 6yrs ago. I was brought up on two strokes and I always had a soft spot for the Suzuki GT550 / GT750 but never went down that route, only got as far as the RD200. My bikes in the past have been Yam RD200, V-Max, Ex-up 1000, BT1100, Honda CB175, CB1300 X4, Suzuki katana 550, SV1000s, GSX1400 Kawasaki GPZ900, ZZR1100, ZX9 my last bike before the CB400f I bought was a Victory Hammer. There was so much wrong with the Cb400 I'm still trying to find out what is right and what's wrong, when I say wrong I mean been made to fit, I'm going to make my first a question about mirrors.
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