Blogs of the various bikes FM Bike Works is looking at.
The CX500, minus just about everything! As you can see, the engine is removed! Over the summer I noticed the stator got worse and worse until I nearly ended up stranded with a dead battery. So the first step is to remove the tank, side panels, foot break, carburetors, electrical […]
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Got the new shims in the mail today; ordered them from Thunder Valley Powersports and they were good about keeping me up-to-date on where my order was at. With parts in hand I set about correcting my valve clearances. Using my spreadsheet from before, I was able to easily decide which […]
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Went back into the cylinder head and took some measurements. Dirty work, but had to be done. I used metric feeler gauges to find the clearance and a digital micrometer to find the thickness of the current shims. The manual mentions that the shim thickness should be between 0.06mm and […]
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Finally had a chance to button up all the carbs and get the pack rebuilt. My attempts to fix the stripped air mixture screw all went poorly, so ultimately I picked up a replacement off of Ebay and cleaned it up. Things are looking pretty clean and came together quite […]
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Finally got some time to get back to the surprisingly clean carbs from the CB900. I went through the various air and fuel passage ways with some carb cleaner and all the pathways seem pretty clear. Piece by peice I started reconstructing the carbs replacing all original bolts with stainless […]
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Well it’s sold! Made a few bucks on it, covered the parts I put into it and moving on. Based on my experience finding XS parts, and the build quality in general I think I’ll stick with Honda’s in the future. That said, the next owner is happy with the […]
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Finished tearing down the carbs to prepare them for a cleaning. Found a missing washer (carb 4) on one pilot/air mixture screw and a missing O-ring (carb 1) on another. The missing O-ring likely explains the amount of fuel build up on the number one carb. In addition, the primary […]
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It’s been a while since I’ve done some work on the bikes (winter time projects were in the way). Bringing the CB900C back to the middle of the garage, I fueled her up to see where the project was left off. Engine started after a bit but still running rough. […]
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Well the CX500C is finally completed. It’s time to put it up on the block for sale. Here’s some parting shots of it before I let it go to the next owner So form the last set of pictures a few changes, header wrap, cleaned =)
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After getting the prettied up tank onto the XS400 we found a fuel leak. At first the theory was a leak up around the mount point of the petcock, but further investigation found that it was a passage way on the diaphragm assembly that was causing the problem. It’s difficult […]
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