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Offline Harley S.

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Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« on: January 13, 2024, 08:27:28 PM »
Hello all I picked up my first cb550 early 2021 I traded a old car trailer for it. When I got the bike it was in very poor shape. It was smoking out the exhaust awful and leaving oil puddles like crazy. I rode it for the season and fell in love. At the end of the season I took over my buddy's garage and got to tearing it down and doing a top end rebuild. This was the first time I've ever worked on a bike. I've been a car mechanic for 9 years now and figured it can't be that different right? It went great. I redid the top end and actually got it to run again. It's been running like a dream since. Still leaks oil but I'm still fixing her up. I'll try and start a new thread to show what I've done and what I will do
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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2024, 01:22:49 AM »
Welcome from the southern AZ desert beyond (West of…) the Tucson Mountains & a bit over 20 miles from downtown Tucson…
Harley, glad you are here.
The 550 is the best handling of the sohc4 bikes, little did you realize what you stumbled upon… ;)

I forget what year the bike was that Scott did this sweep the floor bike with…
That Kawasaki tail section seat pan certainly looks great on the bike…

David
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Offline newday777

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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2024, 03:06:24 AM »
Welcome aboard the forum from southern NH
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My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline denward17

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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2024, 07:34:23 AM »
Welcome from NC, currently working on a 550 myself.

Project build:
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,193881.0.html
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Offline Ozzybud

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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2024, 09:12:12 AM »
Welcome from Pacific Washington.
 There are lots of great tips and tricks and a wealth of information to be had on this site!
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1976 Z50A YELLOW
1970 CT70 BLUE
1971 CT70H ORANGE
1972 CT70H GREEN
1973 CL200 BLUE
1973 CB350F RED
1975 CB360T RED
1975 CB400F BLUE
1975 CB550 ORANGE
1976 CB750F RED

Offline tool14

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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2024, 09:58:02 AM »
welcome aboard
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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2024, 10:03:01 AM »
Search the site for info by plugging this format to your search:

“Terms you are searching for” site:https://forums.sohc4.net

So if I want all threads with terms “cb550 coil” , then my search string entered is:

cb550 coil site:https://forums.sohc4.net

It then lists all results from the forum.sohc4.net site

The https://
Is actually not needed, old habits die hard when you are old…specifying a web site address with http or https is an old practice where it was required a few generations of browsers ago…

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Offline MD

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Re: Hello from South Central Pennsylvania
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2024, 03:38:38 PM »
Welcome from sub zero Minnesota,

-MD
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