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CB350/400 / Re: Front brake!
« on: August 19, 2010, 05:20:28 AM »
Main problem used to be the pivot pin siezing
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CB350/400 / Re: Front brake!« on: August 19, 2010, 05:20:28 AM »
Main problem used to be the pivot pin siezing
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CB500/550 / Re: 550/4 supersport« on: August 18, 2010, 05:07:46 AM »
Its not a model that is appreciating at the moment and some original parts are hard to come by but it was a good bike and with history and if you like it plus the price is right go for it
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CB500/550 / Re: CB500K1 Headlight, European spec« on: August 17, 2010, 06:31:36 AM »
DS only lists the US one but he stocks the UK one as well--usually complete with rims
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Misc / Open / Re: First and Worst« on: August 15, 2010, 12:19:22 PM »
OK just to show me age
First, RE Crusader 250 bought in bits with a big end gone, rebuilt many times when assorted things broke or fell off, travelled 1,000 miles and even "chopped" it at the end. Worst:- From cost point Triumph T150 bought as a wreck to turn into a racing Kneeler but never ran despite lodsa money wasted. From heartache point The Honda No 36 in avatar bought for me by my then Gilfriend, now wife, in the States for my 50th and trashed by some little ar*ehole who set fire to it From reliability CB750F2 that kept needing loadsa work, including valve guides at 25,000, just a bad one ---Even Honda do the occasional one 10025
CB500/550 / Re: Exhaust's« on: August 12, 2010, 06:53:26 PM »
looks like marshall is now part of laser try
http://www.asptrading.co.uk/acatalog/LASER_EXHAUSTS.html MAKE SURE YOU LOOK UP THE CORRECT 550 MODEL as brackets vary looks like 10026
CB500/550 / Re: 650 cam swap for cb550k3« on: August 12, 2010, 11:11:17 AM »
All the same but you cant use a tacho as the gear is different
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CB750 / Re: F1 rebuild and stuck front wheel spindle!« on: August 12, 2010, 12:34:15 AM »
clamp the round end in a vice and turn the hexagon away from it
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CB500/550 / Re: Exhaust's« on: August 07, 2010, 06:40:57 PM »
Dave Silver sells BSM and Marchall did a deeptone one that sounds good,
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CB500/550 / Re: My old 500/4 sadly long gone (about 1978)« on: August 06, 2010, 01:34:00 PM »
Pride and Clarke now theres a name from the past!!!
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CB500/550 / Re: Kick starts« on: August 03, 2010, 05:57:16 PM »
K3 (and F?) had the folding peg along with a different shaped kicjstart
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CB750 / Re: sandcast or not.« on: August 03, 2010, 05:55:38 PM »
If it is it has to be an import as no sandcasts came directly to UK, what does the logbook say
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CB350/400 / Re: Is it a FRAME UP« on: July 30, 2010, 07:00:37 AM »
Actually the crank pins only have two steps, its the cases and rods that have 3
Main journal case max 1.4182 min 1.4173; pin max 1.2992 min 1.2983 so thats a total variation of 0.0009 on the case and pin sizes, count the 0's after the point its not even 1 thousandth. variation:- big hole small pin is 0.1199 small hole big pin is 0.1181 so MAXIMUM TOTAL is 0.0018 or 1.8 THOUSANDTHS in which Honda supply 4 different shell sizes Mind blowing the machining and measuring acuracy of the japanese isnt it 10033
Announcements / Re: We're Back - Sorry for the Down time« on: July 29, 2010, 06:02:25 PM »
Glad its sorted John, you do a stirling job keeping us all out of trouble
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CB500/550 / Re: carb rubbers for cb550 k3 / cr29 carbs« on: July 29, 2010, 06:01:05 PM »
Try fitting 500 manifolds as the head end is the same but the spacing is different
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CB500/550 / Re: Rearsets - What's this called and where can I get one?« on: July 29, 2010, 05:59:50 PM »
It ought to come from the rearset manufacturer as it is bike specific, but yo could adapt a rear brake pedal if you didnt want it pretty and chromed
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