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« on: May 12, 2013, 06:04:35 PM »
If #1 & #2 are wetting the plugs, I would be inclined to look at the points gap & timing. It may be that the points have closed up & the plugs arn't producing a spark. As the carbs are more difficult to access, check the ignition first...with a timing light preferably.
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« on: April 30, 2013, 12:08:11 PM »
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« on: April 11, 2013, 08:23:56 PM »
I didn't have a PRR/SS but it was based loosely on the PRR.  When I went to the Isle of Man TT back in '83 I wanted to position my bike in the same place as Bike magazine did when testing the PRR & placed in front of the Highlander pub on the TT course 
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« on: April 04, 2013, 04:35:00 PM »
I fitted BB pointless ignition to my 750 special without any problems...ever. I also fitted Andrews high performance coils, silicone leads, resistorless plug caps & NGK D8EV plugs. When I installed the blue & yellow leads to the laminate back plate I used thread lock to stop the small nuts on the connector posts from coming undone.
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« on: April 04, 2013, 04:28:56 PM »
The switchgear wiring on the CB550K3 was differant to the same switchgear on the CB550F1/F2 because the wiring was external of the handlebars on the K3 whereas it went through a hole & was internal of the bars on the F models. Accordingly, this is why the K3 had the connector block as against bullet connectors on the F models.
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« on: March 30, 2013, 01:47:39 PM »
And they were not cheap to buy new 
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« on: March 30, 2013, 01:41:14 PM »
This is the page from the Honda catalogue showing tyre sizes  On all of my CB550s I fitted 4.10x19 fronts & 4.25/85x18 rears with no problems whatsoever. never had tyre flex or speed wobble, despite provocation. My favourite tyres were the Dunlop Red Arrow front & Avon Roadrunner rear.
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« on: March 12, 2013, 11:36:49 AM »
I'm with Lynbrook http://www.lynbrookins.co.uk/90285/info.php?p=5 for my Exup1000 & for £54 I get classic cover including breakdown/recovery on a limited mileage agreement of 1500 pa. Suits me as I have three other bikes on the road at the same time.
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« on: December 15, 2012, 08:25:50 PM »
This is the one from a Honda catalogue for a CB750K5  ...& a CB550F1  ...& a CB400F  So the internals should be quite easily swapped across from the switches of these models into the early CB500K alloy finish housing
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« on: November 25, 2012, 08:58:36 PM »
That's interesting Yoshi as you seem to have been way ahead of the design curve there in that people making specials for decades have gone for a lowering of the center-of-gravity as you've raised it........which is what they are all doing now in Moto-Gp as they corner faster this way especially with the sort of tyres used now.
I wanted more ground clearance as the sticky tyres available in the early '80s were nothing by comparison to todays. But as the development of my 750 Special progressed I had some wider rim CMAs specially made so that I could fit Metzeler Comp K tyres in a wider fitment ie. a 160x18 ME1 rear and a 110x18 ME33 front. With the uprated suspension it handled really well, regularly outcornering more modern bikes.
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« on: November 23, 2012, 10:50:15 PM »
The accelerator pump mechanism starts with a tab on the throttle cable pulley pushing against a rod which pushes down onto a diaphragm. This pressurises a fuel rail which supplies all four carbs & squirts a stream of petrol directly into the mouth of the opening carb throat.
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« on: November 23, 2012, 10:45:53 PM »
That does look very good Yoshi, didyou say you used a 900 front fork on it?
I ended up fitting 35mm forks from a CBX1000Z which gave me plenty of room to mess around with front height as i'd fitted some rear shocks from a CB900/CBX1000 as well, which are a good 30mm longer than standard 750F2 shocks & gave much better ground clearance.
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« on: November 23, 2012, 10:33:19 PM »
Don't you mean Comstar wheels?...as standard fitment to the CB750F2/CB900FZ/CBX1000ZA?
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« on: November 20, 2012, 08:48:11 PM »
This was my special in its heyday 
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« on: November 20, 2012, 08:34:05 PM »
Fork legs from a CBX1000ZA or CB900FZ also fit the CB750F2, as do the rear shocks from those models.
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