Hey everyone!! My name's Nick but everyone calls me Danish. I picked up this 72' CB500 Four in the summer of this year with the intentions of turning it into a cafe. I had done some work to it here and there to change the style of it while still keeping it on the road but now with winter here and myself being currently unemployed, I can really spend some time working on this. I'm trying to keep the costs low so I'll be doing as much of the work myself as I can.
When I first brought it home
Doing some cleaning
Before
After
Comparison
Before
After
I did the usual first things when making a cafe. Picked up some bar end mirrors, clubman bars,smaller turn signals, new headlight bracket and threw some tape over the headlight.
Built my own seat out of aluminum plate and rode the hell out of this bike for the rest of the summer.
It had some issues here and there with running weird and just some general problems but I didn't really care all that much because I was having a blast and knew I would tear into it once winter came around. And tear into it I did
Then engine had a leak at the head gasket and the guy I bought it off of had a rebuild kit but never put it on so now is the time to do it. This is my first attempt at doing this and so far it is going pretty smooth but I have questions that hopefully someone can help me with.
On the bench and ready to go
Breather cover off
Cam cover off
Top end pulled
Left side
Right side
Left side
Right side
Cam cover and cam
I followed a few tear downs on this site to get me this far but now I'm not quite sure what to do next. I knew the ports were pretty clogged up with carbon deposits and it was in need of cleaning but I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I got the engine apart. From what I can tell everything looks pretty good other than it needs a good cleaning but I hope some of you can give me some pointers as to how to get all this clean and what to use to do it. I appreciate any help you guys can give me and I apologize for the flood of questions that I'm sure will be asked in the future. If you need better pictures of something to be able to help me out more, just let me know and I'll do my best. Thanks!!!!
