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Offline DaveBarbier

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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #275 on: June 08, 2018, 06:10:40 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on June 08, 2018, 06:03:35 PM
Mine is assembled, but Cam's is running!

You degree yet, Don?
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #276 on: June 09, 2018, 08:39:42 AM »
Sadly no.  If you need the wheel and cam cover back, I can send it.
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Offline DaveBarbier

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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #277 on: June 09, 2018, 06:53:52 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on June 09, 2018, 08:39:42 AM
Sadly no.  If you need the wheel and cam cover back, I can send it.

Nope, don’t need it any time soon. You can hold on to it until you get the motor running to make sure it’s all good if you want.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #278 on: June 09, 2018, 09:15:57 PM »
Sorry to hear you've been having trouble with the ignition. Curious did you use suppression core spark plug wires with the new coils, or have to change to spark plugs /resistor values from stock?


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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #279 on: June 09, 2018, 11:13:36 PM »
The C5 ignition comes with its own wires and coils. We are still trying to figure out and diagnose the issue as of now, but all signs are seem to be pointing to ignition related. This could just be a design flaw with the bike itself and is causing the issue Dave and I have encountered. We need more testing to really pin point the problem.
Ive been riding the hell out of this bike and have only had this issue once.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #280 on: June 22, 2018, 06:08:33 AM »
Update.
Tons more seat time no issue at all. Ambient riding temps below 80 degrees. Oil cooler parts have arrived and I’ll be venting the cover on install.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #281 on: June 24, 2018, 01:50:58 AM »
Promising!
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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: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #282 on: June 24, 2018, 11:28:07 AM »
Quote from: Camrector on June 22, 2018, 06:08:33 AM
Update.
Tons more seat time no issue at all. Ambient riding temps below 80 degrees. Oil cooler parts have arrived and I’ll be venting the cover on install.

Have you been riding with the cover off? I added Buffalo to my weather app, haha, and it says next week will be in the 90’s and sunny for you. That would be a good day to test the cover being off.

Good that it’s working well, but I still hope with the cover on in the heat it stalls out.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #283 on: June 24, 2018, 10:38:11 PM »
If it were the coils a heat pipe type cooler might work if you vented air to the coils.  But if it were the coils, then better solution is more condition tolerant coils.

Makes it frustrating to have spent good money and need to help figure out the cause for the problems with the unit.  Guess that comes with being a pioneer of a new unit, can't be afraid of a few arrows.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #284 on: July 28, 2018, 04:13:08 AM »
Do any tests with the ignition cover off yet?
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #285 on: November 05, 2021, 07:35:24 PM »
Saw the bike is for sale, listed on Facebook...
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #286 on: November 07, 2021, 04:46:24 PM »
say whaaaaa, this was a nice kit.
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