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gaps

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hello from CT with my free 550
« on: November 12, 2009, 07:26:32 PM »
Hi sohc4 freaks! I am very pleased to have found this place, been searching all around the site gathering info to get this 77 550K up and running. A friend called and offered me this machine, been sittin since 1985 but the motor is not stuck, has good compression, fat blue sparks and the carbs are looking great after a weekend of cleaning them. Hope to hear it fire up fairly soon. :)
Again, great site, I have saved lots of time already just lurking around for info.
Any other CT area members? Im round New Haven..
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Offline spot45

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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2009, 03:52:52 AM »
 I am from Connecticut, north of you near Hartford.  Like yourself I just joined because I aquired a 1972 CB500K2.  Compression is good, nothing is seized, tank is solid, carbs are rebuilt, the only problem I have with it is with the electrical harness. 
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Offline kslrr

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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2009, 10:04:06 AM »
Welcome. Nice to see another classic Honda being brought back to life.
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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2009, 06:35:34 PM »
We have a member, Tivag (?), who was rebuilding a 550 (or 500) in CT.  Was doing a graduate degree in library science at UConn, as I recall.  You might look for his old threads on here.

I left CT in '76, but still go back for family visits.  Raised in Stamford.  In the late 90s I worked in West Hartford while living over the line in Mass.
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Offline MyEvilTwin

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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2009, 06:21:07 PM »
I am just outside of Hartford in Glastonbury, I work in S.Windsor. I am in the process of putting my 550 together this winter.
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gaps

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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2009, 05:44:29 PM »
Nice, good to see some locals, I just got mine to run for the first time tonite


With luck this is a link to a pic of the old gal...
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f293/MOTOGAPS/100_0460.jpg
'http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f293/MOTOGAPS/100_0460.jpg
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Offline the technological J

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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2009, 06:03:05 PM »
wow thats pretty nice not gonna take much to make her shine.... very nice
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Re: hello from CT with my free 550
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2009, 05:27:08 AM »
Man.........I love those rims :o
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