Hey everyone, I just joined the group yesterday, but I've been reading up on FAQ's and posts for a while. This site is one of a very few that actually have good info for us sohc4 Honda guys. Ok I got my bike last summer for $300 from a cool guy in Saginaw. It's a 1973 CB500 23,000 with king/queen sissybar seat on it and came with a fairing and hard fiberglass bags. I'll include a pic of what it looked like on day 1, it's pretty bad
Anyways, I like to consider myself pretty engine-friendly . . . got my 1987 Dodge Daytona Shelby-Z in the low 13's on street tires
but anyways, Thought this would be a fun project to keep my mind off college n' working.
The bike was pretty torn apart when I bought it so putting all the little pieces in the right spot was a hassle; however, I got it running! guess that depends on your def. of running
Now here comes my question:
The bike runs, but the carbs like to pee out the overflow tubes, like many of you guys have experienced. I tried the tap tap method, re-adjusted the floats yada yada. . . . now, please don't hold this against me, but I think I found the problem tonight!!! Remember, this is my first time working on anything with less than 4 wheels in my life . . . . On the rack of carbs there is a "T" that goes between 1/2 and 3/4 . . . there is also a smaller brass nipple thing that connects them and feeds out on carb 2 and 3. I think the "T" is the gas line, and the brass nipple guys are another form of overflow tubes because they feed into the top of the carb bowl. Please correct me if my intuitions are wrong. I believe I mistook the little brass guys for fuel inlet, and the big "T"s for some sort of air vent/vac that fed into the valve/tappet cover vent barb.
Ok sorry about such a long post, just wanted to say "HI!!" and double check my idea. None of the manuals I read covered something as stupidly-simple as where to hook the fuel line into.
If I had it hooked in the wrong area, I cant believe the thing actually ran. . . but it did! Haven't tried hooking up to the "T"s yet though, that'll be tomorrow morning.
~Jon Z
Present:
-1973 Honda CB500
-1998 VW GTI
Past:
-1987 Dodge Daytona Shelby-Z 2.5L---13.2 1/4 mile
-1968 Pontiac Tempest Convertible 6.6L (1st Car!)
