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CB500/550 / Re: Carb Cleaning Tips?
« on: March 27, 2024, 11:21:02 AM »
I can speak from experience that the good alloy wheel cleaners like Wonder Wheels that work great also corrode wheels. Merc will not cover alloy wheels under warranty that have had such cleaners used on them. The original W124 alloy wheels were Anodised for the first few years of production before they used paint & lacquer like most others

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CB500/550 / Re: Carb Cleaning Tips?
« on: March 27, 2024, 09:18:24 AM »
The clock cleaning fluid is interesting, for brassware I use White Vinegar - it's much cheaper as well.

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CB500/550 / Re: Carb Cleaning Tips?
« on: March 26, 2024, 07:36:19 PM »
To release my Emulsion Tubes it started with soaking the carb in fresh petrol for 48 hours as the sliders were also stuck. I squirted the area with Carb cleaner & Nail Varnish remover before drifting them out.

A few years ago I bought a set of long drifts in various diameters with a flat ends for drifting out bearings. One was just the right diameter to fit over the slightly proud Emulsion tube - a light tap made it flush with the carb body, the next size down just cleared the carb body. It fell out with barely a tap.

Heat might have helped though I did not try it as I'm always afraid of melting alluminium - a hair drier might have helped. I was lucky as I did not mark or distort anything - a plastic drift tip might have been better but I do not have one.

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Misc / Open / Re: Advice sought, modernish tourer needed
« on: March 26, 2024, 03:31:53 PM »
budget is a bit woeful really, I can only really afford about £2k, £3k if I sell the 500.

I think you will find quite a few nice used bikes in that price band, there are a lot of decent low mileage bikes around from born again bikers who have finally given up on two wheels that have pampered & garaged them.

It's a bit of a buyers market as the days of bikes holding their value as they used to have long gone imho.

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CB350/400 / Re: Engine rebuild Parts list
« on: March 26, 2024, 09:51:01 AM »
Would it be worth getting a smaller gauge?


Where did you get it from? I can only find big boxes of it that are £35+

I believe you need to work with Platigauge that will measure the small gap involved.

Yes its expensive I can't remember where I bought mine but I did buy the wrong size first time as I bought on the colour code rather than the range.

I will send you a PM shortly.

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CB350/400 / Re: Engine rebuild Parts list
« on: March 26, 2024, 09:18:40 AM »
Yes.

The gauge I used is 0.001 to 0.003"

0.025 to 0.076 mm

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CB350/400 / Re: CB400F Air Cleaner Lid
« on: March 26, 2024, 12:01:44 AM »
That's lucky.👍👍👍

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My folks had Crittal windows in their bungalow with "Everest" secondary double glazing. Think 7-9" gap courtesy of deep window sills. Remember the original 1960s Everest advert by Ted Moult with the falling feather test? Solid fuel boiler by Potterton. Warmest room was the kitchen with an old AGA stove that also heated the HW.

With my heart condition I'm so nesh that my house runs at around the 75 -78 F mark all winter in the daytime. I turn it down overnight to 68 F. I do have a water bed running at 89 F in the winter. If our bedroom drops below 68 F I wake up with Angina.

Our house is so well insulated upstairs that aside from the towel rail in the bathroom we have the bedroom radiators off all the time. Downside is in the summer we have to have all the upstairs windows open as it's often over 80 F upstairs in the summer.

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CB350/400 / Re: Seized clutch adjuster bolt.
« on: March 25, 2024, 10:26:18 PM »
I would add also when the lock screw is undone try tightening it a little working back & forth once the heat & Plus Gas has done its magic.

I'm sending you a PM.

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CB350/400 / Re: Engine rebuild Parts list
« on: March 25, 2024, 10:24:30 PM »
My first observation is why are you looking at the Imperial Scale when all the manuals bearing tollerances are Metric.
Secondly what scale of Plasigauge are you using?
Presumably the other side of your Plastigauge will show the metric readings.

If you look at the scale the smaller the clearance the more the Plastigauge is compressed.

Check what the 7 reading is by looking at the Imperial range of the Plasigauge I doubt somehow it's 7 thousandths of an inch that sounds excessive my mains  were around 38 Microns that's 1.49606 thou". The big ends were about 25 microns.

If I'm wrong someone will jump in.


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CB350/400 / Re: CB750 fuel filters
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:11:23 PM »
Do some makes of  bikes have them factory fitted?

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CB350/400 / Re: CB750 fuel filters
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:06:18 PM »
No Sponge in the Aeroline filters - just a rubber type sealing washer. The filter medium looks like a lump of stone like material.

There are a lot of the see through 90 deg filters out there - does someone make a decent one?

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CB350/400 / Re: CB750 fuel filters
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:08:33 PM »
Is it a space issue?

On my 400 the fuel pipe runs in a loop under the seat using a straight inline filter - not my idea a member here showed me how to route it.

Only draw back is if you run your carbs dry of fuel it takes a bit longer - not for the purists.

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CB750 / Re: Oil feed to clutch cb750k
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:01:33 PM »
Excluding fully synthetics I'm sceptical that new oils are not backwards convertable for bikes.

When I owned a diesel Terrano a lot on the 4x4 sites said mineral was best. I used modern Synthetic Diesel oils in mine for over 60k miles - it ran quietest on Total.

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CB350/400 / Re: CB750 fuel filters
« on: March 25, 2024, 06:44:04 PM »
This one, I tried the see through plastic ones but they fell to bits.

They make a few different types IIRC.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173734676326

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