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Offline ZTatZAU

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CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« on: October 25, 2024, 08:21:59 AM »
Just wondering...
Did any of the CB750 brake pedals have an upward travel stop, other than the bottom of the right foot peg bracket?
Thanks!  ZT

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2024, 08:51:56 AM »
I don't think so....

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2024, 09:27:17 AM »
I don't think so....
Interesting!  I only ask because of the less than perfect condition of the chrome on top of the pedal where it comes up and hits the foot peg bracket.

It seems Honda should have put a rubber bumper or something in between the chrome pedal and the steel peg bracket.
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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2024, 10:01:22 AM »
Different models probably have different solutions, my K8 has a bolt/nut setup with a rubber pad.

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2024, 10:24:39 AM »
Different models probably have different solutions, my K8 has a bolt/nut setup with a rubber pad.
That's even more interesting (to me anyway ), Denward.  Now I'm wondering if it took Honda until the K8 to provide some protective cushioning here.
Anyone else?
ZT

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2024, 12:13:33 PM »
Of the bikes I’ve restored, the cb750K6, K7, and K8 were the only ones with this feature. Very handy as you can adjust the pedal to a comfortable angle, then pull up the rear brake adjuster. All my earlier cb750’s just bang up against the peg bracket. cb750K6 pictured. The frame tab with the screw and lock nut adjust up and down, against the pedal.

Looking more closely, it might be fairly easy to weld a threaded tab to the foot peg bracket and achieve the same results? I’m going to check it out, would be a useful mod.
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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2024, 03:55:16 PM »
Of the bikes I’ve restored, the cb750K6, K7, and K8 were the only ones with this feature. Very handy as you can adjust the pedal to a comfortable angle, then pull up the rear brake adjuster. All my earlier cb750’s just bang up against the peg bracket. cb750K6 pictured. The frame tab with the screw and lock nut adjust up and down, against the pedal.

Looking more closely, it might be fairly easy to weld a threaded tab to the foot peg bracket and achieve the same results? I’m going to check it out, would be a useful mod.
As usual, I appreciate the info John!
Doubt I'd ever weld anything to the frame for this.  I was thinking more of an obscure piece of inner tube, or something similar, wrapped around the foot peg bracket but I'll likely leave it as it is.
ZT

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2024, 07:09:58 PM »
ZT….. to clarify: I meant weld a tab to the actual foot peg bracket (not the frame). I may try it on a spare right side foot bracket for my cb750K3. It should be fairly straight forward?

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2024, 11:23:21 AM »
ZT….. to clarify: I meant weld a tab to the actual foot peg bracket (not the frame). I may try it on a spare right side foot bracket for my cb750K3. It should be fairly straight forward?
:) To tell the truth John, the pedal bumping up against the bottom of the foot peg bracket never bothered me.  Other than a blemish in the chrome in the area of contact, I really never noticed a problem until brainstorming some way to successfully install my #3 & #4 Busso no-stamp exhaust pipes.

As some who've been following my K1 resurrection saga, may be aware, I walked away from the Busso exhaust pipe install more than once in frustration, to ponder different approaches and finally got the #1 & #2 pipes installed with no cutting.  Thanks very much again for your advice and encouragement, John!

I'm at the "walk away from it" stage once again to regroup on pipes #3 & #4.  I'm close, but not quite there yet!  I'll post more detail in my "Almost There; except for the pipes" thread; but basically, I can now insert the rear OEM bolt nicely through the both muffler sleeves and into and through the frame; but I can't bring the dished out area at the forward end of the #4 muffler down far enough to sufficiently clear the brake pedal.

Bottom line is, at this point, I'm stumped and feel like waiting to hear from Stu and/or DonR to see how they fare on pipes #3 & #4 in the area of the brake pedal.

ZT

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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2024, 02:13:33 PM »
Don't wait for me......
I haven't gotten to the point of trying again.....
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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.....
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Re: CB750 Brake Pedal Question
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2024, 07:55:40 PM »
 I put mine back in the boxes. One set will go on the K0-1 but it needs engine work.
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