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Craizeehair:
Good to see you going again Ted, I’ve been feeling your pain. I couldn’t  get the CB360 firing on both and had to have the carbs out three times, I’ve balanced them and it’s running but I’m not completely happy with it and knows it needs more fettling but as a novice it’s a slog but I’ll get there.

Looking forward to seeing your next update.

DomP:
Carbs out! The thought makes me shudder😂

Johnny4428:
That smell of burning skin, it’s not nice!

royhall:
Your at the worst part of the project Ted.
During the build your trying to do everything perfectly. After first fire up it usually becomes clear that more work is needed and it is demotivating.
You just need to accept that there is no such thing as perfection and getting a half century old bike to behave itself is not easy. More work is almost always required, you just have to take a few days break from it, then get stuck in and sort it.
You will get there in the end.
I have a bike I finished 3 years ago and it's still not run-in as I'm struggling with carburation issues.
Best of luck mate.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):

--- Quote from: Craizeehair on June 19, 2024, 08:52:37 PM ---Good to see you going again Ted, I’ve been feeling your pain. I couldn’t  get the CB360 firing on both and had to have the carbs out three times, I’ve balanced them and it’s running but I’m not completely happy with it and knows it needs more fettling but as a novice it’s a slog but I’ll get there.

Looking forward to seeing your next update.

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I just looked back at my personal build log in 2020 when I first had my 400 running before the full rebuild - the carb sliders were all stuck soild. After the carb work I read that I had to take the carbs off several times drawing blood on the back of my hand getting the intake 4into1 thing in place - being older even a hard plastic produces a big bruise as well as cutting thin skin like a blade. When I removed my 500 carbs I remembered to wear some grip gloves so escaped relatively unharmed!

I'm planning to go fishing this afternoon as a treat to myself before I return to the carbs - I have a couple of stripped bowl threads to fix as well 2 out of 16 aint bad I guess.

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