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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #875 on: August 08, 2023, 03:46:06 PM »
Nice RB... She's really come a long way.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #876 on: August 08, 2023, 04:32:25 PM »
  Yes it's looking a bit healthier . Have to put a battery in it and time the spark, sync the carbs, a chain and a few other little things and it's time for a ride.
    #2 and 3 pipes are in okay shape  , 1 and 4 could use replacement .... like every one else's.  I think I know a guy who welds stainless , I'm gonna try to bend some stainless sheet stock up for a "patch " for those 2 and see if it works . I just can't see cutting # 2 and 3  pipes so I can put on an old aftermarket set of 2 into 1 mufflers on it... they are just too good to waste.  And you know the day that I cut them, #1 and 4 pipes will show up somehow.
  Painted in a black area on the tank and pinstriped it today, looks much better now. pics will be coming .
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #877 on: August 09, 2023, 05:37:01 PM »
  A few years ago I liked plain single colored tanks with no Honda emblems on them, now  for some reason I find the traditional tank look more appealing now.
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #878 on: August 09, 2023, 06:35:19 PM »
I like that green  8) Good looking bike.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #879 on: August 10, 2023, 04:02:54 PM »
   Thank you. It's a Nissan color, it's not the old Honda color, but it is Japanese,  seemed close enough for me and I like it.
Got a bit more fooling around to do to it and hope to give 'er it's first ride in a long time soon.
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #880 on: August 10, 2023, 07:07:35 PM »
Looking for a "second" to my BOTM nomination:  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180400.0.html
1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #881 on: August 11, 2023, 11:15:05 AM »
   Thank you, but it doesn't qualify this month....I haven't fired it up yet.
A few Honda 500's, a few Honda 550's, a few Honda 650's, '72 cb 450, a couple 500/550/650 hybrids, and 2001 750. 
  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #882 on: August 11, 2023, 11:46:18 PM »
   Thank you, but it doesn't qualify this month....I haven't fired it up yet.

Let us know and then go accept the nomination in the nomination thread!
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #883 on: August 17, 2023, 06:52:12 PM »
  Guess who waisted an entire day on wiring a 76 550.
haven t been able to get power to the brown lines on the fuses... the red has power in and out.  browns have nothing in or out but does ohm back to the ignition switch.
 I ohm d the new switch in all positions and it is working properly. Even hot wired an old set of wires BL+R and the 2 browns together didn't make any difference.
   All the wires in the headlight have mates , with the exception of the lone brown wire ( like usual)and an empty female 4 pack in black, the only spare male wire is brown and white  with a full 4 pack of brown and white, no place to put it .
   I wonder why the yellow 1/2coated sleeve on the female brown and red is 1/2 yellow  like it's some kind of special.  There is a male brown and red that is plugged into it.....  I wondered if this could be the place for a jumper wire that would be able to light up the other 2 brown fuses  since I have seen no way to light em up on the back end of the harness. so I figured that there must be a jump wire in that special yellow jacketed  wire . I did find  a jump wire in the light bucket when it was being dismantled , don't remember if it was hooked up to anything. I usually find horrifying things that have happened in a light bucket, so I didn't think much about it.
   I have blinkers, horn, and horn beeper , and one  orange light on the triple.  I installed new throttle side controls ,but kept the left side as the operated easily.
   No action w starter button  changed solenoid no change , suspicious looking wiring on rectifier...changed that out just in case.
  I looked up the addendum wire diagram here for the 76  but it isn't a match for the colors I have on the bike . I do have a 76-77 new harness that doesn't look right either. my manual is for earlier 550 and has little info on upgrades.
  I must be close but was unable to get there... anyone got an idea what I missed?
« Last Edit: August 17, 2023, 07:03:07 PM by rb550four »
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #884 on: August 18, 2023, 04:27:22 PM »
 So today I pulled the left bar controls out of the bars since they weren 't new, as luck would have it ,I had a new one hanging on a nail in the barn. looked the same from the outside should do the same thing as the old one. It had a bunch of extra wires in the unit. the original had 7 , had a used one with 10 but the new one had 11 and have of them were unitized for plug and play, more like the later models....WTF.  Went with the second choice , the used one with only 10 wires in it  and 2 on the lever. It was alot thicker than the original one ,stuffed it in the hole with  1 extra wire and tape...got it half ways there before the tape let loose from the WD that I sprayed inside the bars for lube. I usually use nylon line  but it was on the jobsite.  I used some stiff wire with no jacket the next time and just wrapped it in a choker spiral ...not easy, not fast but got the job done.
 Unplugged everything in the light bucket for the 3rd time , just in case I may have screwed up the 1st two times.  Everything went together alright til near the end  but there was no brown/red wire male  for the female with a yellow jacket , this time but there was a male brown blue with small yellow jacket, a female brown blue with no yellow jacket , a black w yellow stripe male, a 4 pack of female black , and  the jumper wire that I pulled out of the trash.
  What to do? Right?  Ended up plugging the m and f brown and blue together,  the jumper from the  4 way black female to the brown and red which lit up the second circut like I wanted . The extra black and yellow wire lit the headlight which was great , now I know that works....but the on off light switch on the other bar was set in off position...sounds like I fed it power through the back door....  ran outta time to play.....unplugged that black and yellow wire from the black 4 pack, forgot to test the light in the ON position. Unplugged the battery so I don't burn the place down and left for dinner. I'm closer today than yesterday, maybe  get it right tomorrow.
A few Honda 500's, a few Honda 550's, a few Honda 650's, '72 cb 450, a couple 500/550/650 hybrids, and 2001 750. 
  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #885 on: August 22, 2023, 03:03:48 PM »
  Had just enough time to check the wiring diagrams for the left switch that I already wired in. It seems that the switch came from a 77 750 not a 550 , the 77 wiring diagram shows that the unknown black and yellow male wire from the switch goes into the light bucket and hooks up to the only brown wire  that we usually leave hanging alone ( for parking lights) we don't use parking lights this side of the pond ,so I think that I'll put it in an insulated jacket ...can 't find a new 76 left side switch for a 550 any place ,  seems they go up to 75 , then start  again at 77. So if I check the right hand switch  and everything works, the fuses don t blow, and it doesn t melt the harness , I 'll consider it a success .
   Then time the spark....but then there is a new issue. Maybe someone here has  run into this: NGK no longer makes spark plug caps anymore, ordered them from Parts Unlimited, kept re ordering them but they never come,  the word from  Parts Unlimited is   " they have no alternative for any machine that have used NGK  spark plug caps.  and their spark plugs have been pirated for years so it's been hard to say if an NGK plug is really an NGK plug or a knock off. I have found the same issue with other shops that used to sell them. Has anyone found a good  alternative?
A few Honda 500's, a few Honda 550's, a few Honda 650's, '72 cb 450, a couple 500/550/650 hybrids, and 2001 750. 
  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #886 on: August 22, 2023, 08:15:41 PM »
  Had just enough time to check the wiring diagrams for the left switch that I already wired in. It seems that the switch came from a 77 750 not a 550 , the 77 wiring diagram shows that the unknown black and yellow male wire from the switch goes into the light bucket and hooks up to the only brown wire  that we usually leave hanging alone ( for parking lights) we don't use parking lights this side of the pond ,so I think that I'll put it in an insulated jacket ...can 't find a new 76 left side switch for a 550 any place ,  seems they go up to 75 , then start  again at 77. So if I check the right hand switch  and everything works, the fuses don t blow, and it doesn t melt the harness , I 'll consider it a success .
   Then time the spark....but then there is a new issue. Maybe someone here has  run into this: NGK no longer makes spark plug caps anymore, ordered them from Parts Unlimited, kept re ordering them but they never come,  the word from  Parts Unlimited is   " they have no alternative for any machine that have used NGK  spark plug caps.  and their spark plugs have been pirated for years so it's been hard to say if an NGK plug is really an NGK plug or a knock off. I have found the same issue with other shops that used to sell them. Has anyone found a good  alternative?

Takes a good bit of hunting around to find NOS? NGK spark plug caps made for your application:I have also ordered by Honda part# to get some NOS NGK spark plug resistor caps with the correct specs.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #887 on: August 28, 2023, 11:18:34 AM »
  Thanks ... I forgot about going through Honda parts , Those ngk caps were always something I could get from anywhere before.
Stole some time and put new points and condensers  in the rebuilt 550 engine and timed the spark. Happy about that.
  Plugged in an old headlight to see if it works properly after reading that the black and yellow wire gets fed by a black wire to feed the lamp alone, must have been a original light with a rusty or dirty filament , didn't burn out wires but did smoke the inside of the glass. The wires didn't get hot so I'll get a new one and see how it works. If it doesn't work I'll splice some bullets into that plug and play left hand control from 4 into 1 that I found hanging on a nail in the shop , rewire the bars and see if that makes things all better. It's all fun and games but few things give me as much pleasure as spending time working on a Honda.
 
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #888 on: September 07, 2023, 06:18:18 PM »
  So I banked a little time from the job where I could escape to the shop and give that 76 it's first fire and sinc the carbs today.
I cleaned up that old wiring harness a week or so ago ,had a moment or two of no power to the fuses...checked the ignition switch, worked fine . unhooked all the wires and rewired everything again  and viola everything but the horn and the starter worked.  Used a screwdriver across the solenoid, no go , so I ordered one .  Put that in today first thing  and  found I'm back to no power to the fuses or anyplace else. Will I waste another day tracing wires ? Will I open up that harness ,do the repairs, because it's a 50 year old harness?
  I had a new 1975 harness on the wall, just in case. And now is the case, no more dicking around with 50 year old wires with a ghost, I'll use the new 75 harness. The light switch that has had my goat last week because I couldn't find a 1976 switch for replacement anywhere,  but did find a new 1975 switch on a nail in the barn, then decided to use a used 750 switch with an extra black and  yellow wire that I could feed from an open black female wire instead.
 The plan is to fish the wires back out of the handlebars and use the new 75 replacement switch with the new 75 harness . I'm thinking the only difference that I have seen is no clutch safety thing wires that  people over ride anyways. Probably should have done that in the first place, it just seemed too easy.
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #889 on: September 07, 2023, 07:23:33 PM »
Glad you are getting time in the shop and making headway.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #890 on: September 18, 2023, 04:01:25 PM »
   I love spending time in the shop especially if I'm making things work in a reasonable amount of time and I can go to the next step. This machine is not coming in at a reasonable amount of time, and has not allowed me to get past the wiring, it wouldn t bother me too much if I could identify the trouble and correct it, but it seems to be an intermittent trouble ...works one day but not the next type of stuff , get it fixed sinch up the harness and suddenly it won't work. Don't mind saying it's getting me just a little pissed at this point . Okay , so I have an entire 500 harness ,both handle bar controls for a 500 , new electrical for everything under the side cover also for a 500. I am used to the 500 bar controls because I ride 500s, easiest harness out there, and I know it 'll work as I have a few 550s in the 500s now. The only thing that was holding me back from using the 500 stuff was that I wanted to be stock, and correct by year.....well that all went out the window last night, swapped out everything to 500 and it all works fine. I should have just done that first (Hindsight) and bypass wasting all the time. But that isn't the irritating part, the kicker is I have no idea what was wrong with the last set up, half of it all was new and worked fine for a little while. Everything wire related that I took off is going in the wire parts bin , nothing gets hung back up  or reused this time.  Good , now I can move to the next step, fire it up and sync those carbs. All better now.
 
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #891 on: September 18, 2023, 09:35:01 PM »
RB, sorry this one has fought so hard, glad you have overcome it, albeit at a price...
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #892 on: September 19, 2023, 03:58:20 PM »
   This one ... all the other bikes I have would be whining in the corner wanting to be happy again, not this one, never said a word. It must have been treated badly and has trust issues or something. I can't remember any of the other machines taking this long to get back in order. Hope it gets over it on first fire. We need to establish trust.
    Even so, it's all still fun .
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #893 on: September 20, 2023, 01:26:00 AM »
Well, hopefully it is happy to be running again and soon to see some miles. Imagine weather in NY is starting to change a bit. We won't see fall weather here in Southern AZ (Tucson) until end of October up through Thanksgiving time. Nearby mountains are at 8-9000 feet but us at 2400-2600 feet ASL it comes much later.
Hope you are enjoying time with family between wrenching sessions and work has been decent. Enjoy the last of summer and warm days for cookouts...and picnics with the wife.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #894 on: September 24, 2023, 07:03:35 PM »
  Yes, summer is over and fall weather has taken over quickly. The color of the leaves seemed to start to change a while ago  but the green is still trying to hang on. The Maple trees are all trying to change color this week but the rain has washed the color out before the leaves begin to turn bright.  Had some nights below 40 degrees already, the days are upper 60s low 70 s and damp. We can expect snow the week of Halloween sometimes and have had raging blizzards on Thanksgiving...never know. I had a very chilly ride on Saturday with a heavy leather jacket on. Ran the tanks down and refilled with high test in all 3 riders and put in some marine grade fuel stabilizer incase the riding is already over and I just don't know it yet .
   This summer was nice. Did a bit of outdoor cooking. My daughter bought us a Blackstone  flat top grill, not a bar b que , which I thought was going to take some time to get used to...but it's a dream . I haven't burned 1 meal beyond recognition yet.  It's pancakes eggs and  bacon, French toast breakfasts, and anything else anyone wants for lunch and dinner. Only requires minimum care to keep it seasoned and clean. That'll be taken in for the winter.
    Today is Sunday , had the day off , was going to fire up and sync that stubborn little green 550 today.  Didn't do it , didn't want it laying around over the winter with fuel in it  and no  time for riding it. It can wait until early spring , I guess. We'll see , depends on Winter.
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  550 Snowbike -Somebody had to do it.
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #895 on: October 31, 2023, 07:50:09 AM »
It's getting cold this week here too. No snow though. I could do without that lol
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #896 on: October 31, 2023, 09:31:37 PM »
Souther Ontario got some snow, John D - BenelliSEI shared a photo… Denver got a few inches last week, Tahoe, and Montana had a big snowfall…
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #897 on: November 08, 2023, 11:50:59 PM »
Souther Ontario got some snow, John D - BenelliSEI shared a photo… Denver got a few inches last week, Tahoe, and Montana had a big snowfall…
It got down in the 30s here then back up to the 50s/60s
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #898 on: December 03, 2023, 02:32:48 PM »
 It's December, only had a little snow, but had no riding....a little chilly for me. But that doesn't mean that I have been stuck in front of the TV , I've had a machine that I wanted to get ready for  next spring that I put together a few years ago . It's a sweep the floor bike, a 76 K  that was too rusted to save the chrome so I camo painted the entire machine after rebuilding the engine. I was happy with the idea of a Camo bike since  I used to paint army trucks camo in the late 70's .

   As life would have it, I picked up (by chance ) a sidecar that I found at a yard sale that had no mounts, beat paint, no windscreen , and rotten seat, bad wiring , and was just screaming "save me", a real gem for the price. Anyways, I always thought that these two pieces should be put together, so I painted it camo along with seat repair ,a plexi wind screen and some extra storage you know ,just in case. I never had an attached sidecar so I put it on my bucket list .
  I was polishing up the collection when I noticed my eye kept drifting over to these 2 pieces sitting right next to each other for years and thought if I don't get to it , it'll never get done. So I finally ordered a mounting kit and put them together , order a new 16 inch tire and tube that hasn't made it here yet . 
A few Honda 500's, a few Honda 550's, a few Honda 650's, '72 cb 450, a couple 500/550/650 hybrids, and 2001 750. 
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Re: 500/550/650's that followed me home
« Reply #899 on: December 03, 2023, 02:38:56 PM »
Not bad. Do you have a picture of the sidecar ?
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