Hello all!
Dave from Austin, Texas here. Glad to be in such good company of bikers.
I just bought my first bike, a 1973 Honda cb350f. My father said he loved the bike, and with gas the way it is, and my wanderlust/propensity to travel all over the countryside, I figured what better way than by a damn fun ride. Plus, he has a Harley, and I'd like to show him up.
It has a four in one exhaust, and the tank was repainted by previous owner. I bought her on Ebay and used my days off work to get up to Colorado and bring her back on the truck. Now the "fun" begins. I know there's a lot of info in the Faqs, so I'm busily searching them, and I'm ordering a manual. So far I've found the following issues:
-The front tire has a leak somewhere. I'm not surprised, since it has signs of sitting in a corner of a garage.
-The blinkers light, but the left doesn't blink, and the right blinks at about 2 sec intervals.
-The headlight and horn don't work. The previous owner stated they were working, but how long ago he didn't say.
-The throttle cables have been swapped out for chopper cables, but on standard handle bars. -_-; I'll be swapping these back. In the meantime, the spring on the throttle beneath the tank hangs free, so I have to move the throttle open and closed manually. I don't see where the spring would hook, unless it's to the bottom of the tank?
I thought I'd start with the headlight and horn first. I've done a layman's job of checking the fuses and wires, and while they show signs of age, the connections look good. Fuse under the right side panel is good (no scorch marks). The last time I worked on a bike, it was a Kawasaki 250. I was fifteen though, and don't remember much about the wiring.
Well, here we go...
-Dave
