Author Topic: 72 CB500 Restomod - Update Sold! (Read 42276 times)

RAFster122s · « **Reply #375 on:** December 18, 2018, 03:40:58 pm »

Congrats on ID'ing the perp...now smack him/it around until it falls in line...

hehe

I'm sure you will be able to sort it out and get it purring...

David

Scramps · « **Reply #376 on:** January 03, 2019, 02:30:30 pm »

Still haven’t done anything with the leaky carburetor, or anything on the bike for a couple weeks really.

Ever since I put the OE clutch pushrod, I can’t get the clutch to release. I’ve tried a few orientations of the adjustment points, but I can’t seem to be able to figure out how to achieve full slack and then tighten things up from there.

The shop manual isn’t very helpful, and I can’t find anything on the forums that gets into this specific thing

Gurp · « **Reply #377 on:** January 03, 2019, 05:56:28 pm »

Clutxh spring bolts too tight? With older bikes I've ran into this a few times. Ive even been the culprit a few times as torque wrenches are not as accurate near the edges of their scale.

Scramps · « **Reply #378 on:** January 04, 2019, 04:19:11 am »

That’s possible, I did put the stock springs back in - I had been using the springs from the 550 which are a good bit taller. With those installed, the oe pushrod wouldn’t even fit. The PO had added some washers to the original springs, but they were also running a pushrod that was way too short. So I thought the parts manual configuration would be appropriate for the stock pushrod

Gurp · « **Reply #379 on:** January 04, 2019, 06:57:11 am »

Ive found as the parts where in sometimes you need a 1 or 2 +/- the torque the manual recomends. My 500 was not releasing at factory torque. I dropped 2lbs and it worked fine.

calj737 · « **Reply #380 on:** January 04, 2019, 08:13:05 am »

Quote from: Gurp on January 04, 2019, 06:57:11 am

Ive found as the parts where in sometimes you need a 1 or 2 +/- the torque the manual recomends. My 500 was not releasing at factory torque. I dropped 2lbs and it worked fine.

Sounds very much like you need a better torque wrench. Or better springs.

Gurp · « **Reply #381 on:** January 04, 2019, 11:34:30 am »

I definitely need a better torque wrench. Building a better tool set a few bucks here and a few bucks there.

Scramps · « **Reply #382 on:** January 07, 2019, 11:01:27 am »

Finally got back into the garage today, clutch is working now. I have the adjusters at the ends of the clutch cable both backed out as far as they can go, and the slot on the left side cover for the actuator is counterclockwise from the level mark about 1/8”. It seems less than ideal, but if it works, etc.
Also, I’ve left my fuel valve open while I go run some errands, but I think I’ve gotten that part sorted as well. There was a tiny piece of purple plastic in the needle valve’s bronze inlet port keeping it from being able to close.

Still waiting for paint. Really looking forward to seeing what it looks like

Gurp · « **Reply #383 on:** January 15, 2019, 10:26:04 am »

What color are you goong Scramps?

Scramps · « **Reply #384 on:** January 15, 2019, 01:52:57 pm »

That’s the template I gave them. It’s Electric Gold and white

Gurp · « **Reply #385 on:** January 15, 2019, 05:20:03 pm »

Nice.

Scramps · « **Reply #386 on:** February 15, 2019, 04:49:26 am »

Still no news on the paint, but I do have a shiny new replica gas cap to slap on there when the time comes

I was attempting to sand down my old one to get the pitting out and give it a nice brushed nickel look, but these old caps are tough!

The replica isn’t 100% identical. The sides are vertical rather than tapered, and the corners are sharper, but it seems solid enough.

Gurp · « **Reply #387 on:** February 25, 2019, 04:47:02 pm »

Get everything back from paint yet?

Scramps · « **Reply #388 on:** February 25, 2019, 04:50:21 pm »

Nah, I’ve been calling them once every week or so, keep getting the same answer. “We’re really busy, but we’ll get to it as soon as we can”

I can’t complain, the people that run that shop are practically family

Gurp · « **Reply #389 on:** February 25, 2019, 06:18:54 pm »

Can't wait to see them when they are done.

Scramps · « **Reply #390 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:52:28 pm »

News!

Still waiting on the side covers. The plastic they’re molded from wasn’t taking paint very well. Needed some glazing, or something along those lines. Also decided to scrap the stripes on the side covers. We laid it out and it just looked weird.

Scramps · « **Reply #391 on:** March 14, 2019, 02:37:31 pm »

Headlight bucket rat’s nest: eliminated

Gurp · « **Reply #392 on:** March 15, 2019, 10:44:16 am »

clean!

Scramps · « **Reply #393 on:** March 17, 2019, 09:33:35 am »

Got everything back together and sorted. Clutch was slipping, got that straightened out.

Went for a quick 40 degree blast a few miles down the road and back a couple different ways.

This exhaust has a very different sound to it, it’s not obnoxiously loud, which is what I wanted.

Apparently I did not fix my overflowing carb bowl issue, so I’ll have to revisit that.

All in all, though, things are coming along very nicely

SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan · « **Reply #394 on:** March 17, 2019, 09:55:56 am »

What's left on the TO DO list, Scramps?

Scramps · « **Reply #395 on:** March 17, 2019, 10:07:31 am »

Side covers
Fuel leak
Good exhaust one day

That’s all I can think of at the moment. Of course there will be more things that I want to do later, but for now it’s nearly done.

Gurp · « **Reply #396 on:** March 17, 2019, 11:34:47 am »

When i get my chopper done I'll bc parting out my non title 74 550. Has a pretty good set of 4 into 4 guns on it.

Scramps · « **Reply #397 on:** March 24, 2019, 09:25:58 am »

I’ll keep that in mind.

Took the bike out today to work since the weather is so nice. Still waiting for my side covers, but I’m pretty pleased with how it looks so far

Gurp · « **Reply #398 on:** March 24, 2019, 07:52:00 pm »

Love the paint out in the light!

Scramps · « **Reply #399 on:** April 04, 2019, 01:46:56 pm »

Got my emblems ready to go onto the side covers when I get them back.

Got to ride to work today, wasn’t all frosty outside when I got up. Bike ran a little rough this morning, found the connector for the stator was loose on my junction plate. I also found that my battery isn’t getting enough voltage to keep it charged up. Only producing 13.4 volts at 4k rpm.

I checked the stator, none of the coils are grounded, there’s continuity between all three, and each one is producing 14 volts AC. I’m almost positive that the problem is my cheap eBay regulator/rectifier.

Should’ve steered clear. Anyway, I’ll get a better one soon.

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Author Topic: 72 CB500 Restomod - *Update* Sold! (Read 42276 times)

Author Topic: 72 CB500 Restomod - Update Sold! (Read 42276 times)