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Ken's (oddjob) 500/4 resto??? Where are you with it?
Oddjob:
It’s Mike Berkshire who wants the bracket James, I thought I’d see if the yanks have one spare as they did tend to move the switch to the bars back in the day.
Thanks for responding though, decent of you.
Oddjob:
--- Quote from: taysidedragon on February 13, 2025, 05:01:15 PM ---For the sidestand why don't you fit one of those rubber strips to it, like the 400f uses. The rubber catches first and pulls the stand back before the stand itself digs in.
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Sorry, forgot to reply to this point. The shape of the heel of the 500 is different to the 550 stand for instance, the 550 did have the rubber strip fitted BUT they also moved it back on the frame from under the lower front engine mounts to just behind the riders footrests, whether that location helped it work I've no idea. But due to the shape of the heel on the 500 it wasn't feasible. I did consider fitting a 550 side stand but wasn't sure if it was smaller/larger due to different mounting location and TBH I just don't like the shape of the 550 side stand anyway. If I iron out the bugs on this idea I'll be sure to post a possible solution. I saw a pic of a CB550 clutch cover the other day with a small slave cylinder attached to it, clearly ditching the cable pull arrangement, looked pretty good TBH but a little sticky outie for my liking.
Oddjob:
Ohh, I forgot this little project.
Some will look at this and just say WHY? Some will like it, some may hate it. It was just one of those things that just happened to be able to be done and I thought, why not?
So I have been replacing clutch basket rubbers on some of my spare clutches over last summer. I'd split a number of baskets and found that in general the 500 baskets were still ok, no real movement of the large gear at the back, the 550 ones however were a different story. I have around 5 IIRC, 2 were buggered, 2 were ok and 1 was marginal. So I split 2x500 baskets and 2x550 baskets. One of the 500 baskets broke in 2 halves due to the force I was using to try and remove the existing rivets, lesson learned on how to remove them, if they won't punch out, drill right down the centre of them and collapse them inwards, sometimes just the drilling makes them drop out. I intend to refit the good 500 rubbers into the 550 baskets and get at least a working 550 basket.
However off topic. I was getting a lot of parts either ceramic or powder coated last summer. For a laugh I decided to get the basket done, the rear gear was done in a special coating designed to reduce noise and friction, designed to be used on car gearbox gears, so I had that done in that, along with the securing disc at the back, I'll get the primary gear it meshes with coated at some point but it wasn't available at the time. This coating only comes in one colour, a sort of gunmetal grey, so I decided on the same colour for the basket I'd had my CB1300 wheels done it, a really nice gold.
Here's the result
Basket. You can see the rivet holes have been tapped to 6mm.
Gear
Securing plate
Inner baskets
Assembling, brand new damper rubbers fitted.
Fully assembled with plates fitted.
And yes I know, you can't see it once it's fitted. Unless you look through the dipstick hole that is :) :) But I am considering putting a window in the clutch casing and making a feature out of it. Another little project.
Bryanj:
My answer is why not, you like it, you know its there so good enough!
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
A Bling clutch, brill.👍👍👍
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