Looking good!
Thanks! Sad news is that I wont be getting it running before I move back to Florida like i had planned (ultimately my choice). This is why:
The mess of a stock wiring harness. The electrical parts of the bike is what I have the least experience with and it's what intimidates me most. The best I can do (and what I did) is label each corresponding connection when disassembling and upon reassembly, match the numbers. Simple enough, but doesn't really help when it comes to trouble shooting faulty connections and so forth. I had connected everything that I could, hooked up the terminals, flipped the key to on and...................nothing...... no dummy lights, no headlight, no power. There could be a dozen reasons to explain this with most likely it being that I did omit hooking up the front turn signals, back left turn signal, safety switch that runs to the clutch handle (PO broke that back in 2001), and the turn signal buzzer. With the limited knowledge I do have, I was able to chase the power to the 15 amp fuse and that was the end of it. So it came decision time, I could expend money, effort, and most importantly time trying to track down and fix the issue with the old wiring harness within my two weeks left in Tx or set in motion what my father and I had decided to do the bike anyways a month back. That was to scrap the wiring harness entirely and bring the bike into the modern day with this bad boy!
<![CDATA[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/HNF-h6oBczg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/HNF-h6oBczg</a>]]>So many features! I know it isn't time period correct but my goal in this build was/is to keep the outward appearance of the bike original while upgrading the internals (CB750 purists move along! I'm not planning on taking an angle grinder to it
). So the decision was made to just start buying the parts necessary to make it happen (M-unit, Rick's reg/rec combo, electrical connections from
http://www.vintageconnections.com/) and ship them to Florida so they will be waiting for when I get there. Forum member Calj737 has been incredibly kind answering my preliminary questions on how to run it, even offering to draw me up a wiring diagram to fit my needs. Clearing the Army has kept me from following up on it with him this week, hopefully that will change in the next couple of days.
I did get ahead of myself with this post and would like to highlight some of the things I did before trying to turn the power on.
The carbs were cleaned, polished, and assembled (with some issues). I used a couple of different products to help clean: acetone and Berryman's chem dip, but I think the best product overall for cutting through gelled up gas was Berryman's brake cleaner in the aerosol can.
Broken slow jet was replaced with a new Keihin #40:
Parts were polished and fasteners were replaced with SS Socket Head Caps to match the rest of the bike.
When I disassembled the carbs, I was unaware the stay plate was staked in place and broke a couple of small pieces off of the inside bushing (see previous post for pics). With a little bit of grinding, I was able to grind down a jagged edge and reassemble (without the two fragments). I know that this isnt the best route to go but I don't have a spare plate to replace it with. Once reassembled there didn't seem to be any major side to side play.
