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Offline Romhog

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CB550 F Super Sport - The beginning - help me!
« on: December 03, 2011, 06:43:10 PM »
I have been looking for my next project bike and this time around I was looking to go Cafe. I finally found the barn find of my life and my first order of business was to take a look at the engine. The only negative thing I had delivered to me about the whole bike was that it ran but started to exhibit an engine knock. knowing this I got it all drained, cleaned up a bit and pulled. Here is the evidence I have noticed on the cam



And here is the Rocker matching it.



To a trained eye, does this look bad enough to repair or can I just slap it back together and redo spring adjustment?

From what I have seen digging in to this motor, I have been debating on if to rebuild it completely. I have not formally done a complete rebuild before and can tell that deeper in to it, it has good compression (though I screwed up and didn't get a reading with my pressure gauge before tearing it down. :(

thanks in advance and glad to find a home to talk about SOHC!

Offline Mcwilliams570

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Re: CB550 F Super Sport - The beginning - help me!
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2011, 05:43:42 AM »
Welcome to the forums.. Is the cam and rocker arm perfect no will they work I would think so. I just got done with rebuilding my 550 engine and my cam and rocker arm were similar. I bought a 650 cam they are pretty cheap 40$ and it just drops right in dont have to do anything special and is a nice little gain on horsepower. Type 650 cam in the search engine will get lots of info. Goodluck to ya..


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Offline Stev-o

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Re: CB550 F Super Sport - The beginning - help me!
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2011, 06:11:23 AM »
How many mikes on the motor? Since you have it apart, I would replace those parts.
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Re: CB550 F Super Sport - The beginning - help me!
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2011, 06:14:05 AM »
Hi Romhog,
                  I think once you install a good camshaft & rockers and then start it up and listen/ride it to sort out what other noise, if any you have you can do a compression test after it has warmed up;have you found a cam yet ?
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Re: CB550 F Super Sport - The beginning - help me!
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2011, 08:29:11 AM »
I will admit that I was hoping I wouldn't see enough damage to "want" to replace anything internally. So with that being said, I have not shopped around for a replacement cam yet. My other decision to break open the engine was to gets the parts media blasted but I want to make sure I can get the complete rebuild kit first before digging further in to the engine.
The bike only has 28,000 miles on it and from what I can see so far, I'm tempted to throw it back together, and turn my focus on getting the carbs rebuild so I can get it test setup and see if she will fire up.
still not sure :)

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Re: CB550 F Super Sport - The beginning - help me!
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2011, 11:33:41 AM »
A replacement camshaft & the appropriate replacement rocker arms will sure be a good start to your rebuild parts stash.
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