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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1050 on: July 11, 2020, 09:46:55 pm »
Looks like a 1st generation Hemi in the hot rod. :)
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1051 on: July 14, 2020, 04:59:39 pm »
Another 550, '76 F. Had it for 6 months now and loving it. Highly original and running sweetly. Learning lots on this great forum.
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1052 on: July 15, 2020, 02:41:09 am »
Nice
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1053 on: July 31, 2020, 09:03:59 pm »
Looks like a 1st generation Hemi in the hot rod. :)

It absoluetly is. 1955 Hemi 354 in a 28 Chevy.

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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1054 on: August 01, 2020, 12:11:27 am »
Added this sad looking K4 to the collection today. She needs some love.

'74 CB360G - Hex Green Metallic
'75 CB550F - Flake Sunrise Orange - Always broken
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'78 CB550K4 - Mostly Rust
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1055 on: September 07, 2020, 01:44:43 pm »
Just found this... my 76 550F. Before and after 'renovation'.

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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1056 on: December 22, 2020, 05:05:49 am »
This is my CB550K1 resto-mod. took me 2 years to complete from 2016 to 2018
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1057 on: December 23, 2020, 05:08:52 pm »
This is my CB550K1 resto-mod. took me 2 years to complete from 2016 to 2018
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Beautiful restoration Mark..
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1058 on: December 23, 2020, 06:39:03 pm »
Gorgeous
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1059 on: December 28, 2020, 02:36:40 pm »
Thanks for your compliments; I love to ride this bike, it is like a time machine to my days repairing F4's.
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1060 on: November 07, 2021, 03:34:26 am »
Moved to another thread.

Having an issue with the Tachometer on the bike. Original was erratic so I sent it to CB750gauges.com for repair & renewal.

On return it initially would not register any RPM, after a short ride it started to run, but erratically.

I purchased & installed a new tach drive cable, no change.

Sent the tach back to CB750gauges, he reports the tachometer runs "perfectly".

Any Ideas as to what I should do next?

Thanks
Mark
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1061 on: November 07, 2021, 07:09:55 am »
How difficult is it to pull the tach gear? Could be an issue on the drive gear or cam driving the drive gear.
Have heard of issues like that on a Cx/GL500 but never on a CB motor, but you never know.
Can you take the cable loose and drive it from a drill? If it were an engagement issue at the tach end I would guess Marcel would see this too.
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1062 on: November 07, 2021, 07:12:47 am »
Mark, gorgeous restoration.
You are using a cb650 cam and 650 cam gear drive?

Has the bike been nominated for BOTM?

David
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1063 on: November 07, 2021, 07:14:41 am »
Thomana, very nice restore, any more photos you can share? Nice work.
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Re: Registry of 500/550 Owners (Three Tons of fun!!)
« Reply #1064 on: November 07, 2021, 07:29:02 am »
Mark, gorgeous restoration.
You are using a cb650 cam and 650 cam gear drive?

Has the bike been nominated for BOTM?

David

It is all original tach drive as far as I can tell.

Thanks. It has not been BOM nominated. I am not sure how that works.
I tell my wife the motorcycles are an investment...

CB550K1: 1975
CB750K6: 1976