I recommend that when you heed advice from this forum, you take notice if they know about your specific bike or rather generic 750 stuff that may or may not be applicable to your bike.
CB550K carb install:
Remove the clamps entirely from the air plenum boots.
Remove the bolts that holt the air filter box to the frame. This will allow the airbox/plenum assembly to move rearward up to 1/2 inch. It's not much, but it helps. Figure a way to wedge or hold the airbox at it's rearmost.
Spray the outside of air plenum boots with something slippery Silicone, Armoral, WD40. Spray this on the inside of the intake runner boots, too. Or, use petroleum jelly there.
Install the carbs from the right hand side of the bike sliding the front of the carbs across the allready installed intake runner boots with only the front bands tightened. The air plenum side boots will deform and distort as the carbs go across. Make sure nothing digs into the rubber to avoid tears (both kinds
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When the carbs are all aligned with the runner boots, wiggle them until they fully seat while applying forward pressure. Don't knock the bike off the parking stands while doing so.
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Once the carbs are forward seated. Use an "L" shaped scribe or small/long allen wrench to guide or "walk" the plenum rubbers over the rear of the carbs. Lube where required in the process.
Reinstall clamps, cables and bolts, etc.
I think that's it...or at least what I can remember.
The fuel is fed by gravity to the carbs, Any old reservoir will do. Even if hung from the ceiling.
You can sometimes get draggy brakes less so by appling side pressure to the caliper. Palm of hand, heel of boot, or rubber hammer. Temporary fix, though.
Cheers,