Topic: Re: 77 cb750a Hondamatic cafeish Starting to look like a bike again!!

[ryani]

Well I got the bike rewired today and it actually fired!!!!!! After a bit of kicking and screaming she finally roared to life.  It seemed to idle very high after it warmed up and I couldnt adjust it down with idle adjust screw.  Any suggestions on what to look at first???  Thanks

[knowsnothing]

Well I got the bike rewired today and it actually fired!!!!!! After a bit of kicking and screaming she finally roared to life.  It seemed to idle very high after it warmed up and I couldnt adjust it down with idle adjust screw.  Any suggestions on what to look at first???  Thanks

Sounds like an air leak.  Try squirting some wd-40 or something on the boots.  If the rpm changes, you have a leak.

[ryani]

Sounds good.  Thanks for the tip.  As much as a problem as it was to get the airbox boots onto the carbs I could believe that would be the prob.  I'll check with wd-40 tomorrow morning.

[ryani]

Air leaks and voltage drains!!!!  Woohooo!!   Well I got out to the garage quick.  Didn't spend alot of time because my fingers were freezing.  Anyway I did a quick amp check with the key off and found when I unplugged the voltage reg the amp draw went to 0!  I wired it up as per the instructions but I'll have to do some investigating tomorrow.

[ryani]

Well I ordered a two sets of mains and two sets of idle jets today along with a new accel pump diaphragm.  I'm going to run velocity stacks due to the fact that I can't get new intake rubbers and have many leaks.  Just going to richen everything up and let er rip!!

I think I found my drain problem.  It has something to do with the ford voltage reg.  When I disconnect it my amp draw falls to 0.  Its back feeding some how.  Maybe a diode in the ignition   (black lead) will take care of it.

Got my new taillight built.  I made it out of old indicator lights that I got from an old control panel at work.  Fits the bike i think.

The seat is at the upholstery shop as of yesterday.  I was looking at an old yamaha rd350 for my next project at this mechanics shop and viola!!! he had a guy that does seats!!

[seanbarney41]

I like your tail light idea.  I was gonna use some of those same lights, but blue, to do the old hot rod trick of blue dot tail lights.

[ryani]

Thanks!  I ordered a led taillight for the bike but thought it just didn't fit the old girls style.  I found some parts and work and bought an 1157 light socket at the auto parts store and came up with something different.

[ryani]

Got all my new jets installed yesterday.  Went up on the pilot needle and main.  Hopefully I can get it to run well enough with bench sync I did to really get a good test on the charging system.  Baby steps are better than no steps I guess.