1981 CB750 Super Sport

[Piute]

            ON MY 1977 S.O.H.C. F2 Super Sport
                                  was very easy that way

[Piute]

[Hoosier Daddy]

Johnnylevi wrote

... as far as the rear shocks go would putting the bike on a center stand and taking the weight off the rear wheel do the trick for taking off the old ones?

Might be a little late, but as Piute said, that's how I do it.

[Johnnylevi]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/81-Honda-CB900f-CB-900-intake-exhaust-camshafts-cam-chain-B-sprockets-gears-/160991128058?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item257bd1a9fa&vxp=mtr 

What do you think guys?

[seestheday]

Insanely expensive.  I wouldn't put that into my bike.  Look at how rusted those cams are.

Don't use a used cam chain either.

Go to the F site (cb110f.net) and post on the buy/sell section that you want to buy one.  There are lots of guys that will have much better ones than that willing to sell to you for a lot less.

I got two offers from guys in Holland that were willing to have them to me including shipping for less than half of what that guy is asking.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Exactly, those should go to the scrap pile, rusted lobes and bearing surface will fail in short order and do more damage to the engine. You have to know what you are shopping  for and what is good / bad sometimes even marginal. The zoom feature is nice IF it's available, you don't want any grooves let alone rust or pits.
Cracks me up when I see stuff like this...they are preying on people just who just aren't as knowledgable... I've even seen USED Goldwing Timing Belts for SELL on e-bay... SERIOUSLY?!
A timing belt can look good right up until it fails. And that can destroy a GoldWing engine.
Hey maybe I should start selling my USED oil filters

[Johnnylevi]

Thanks sees and hoosier for the advice. I didn't think it was a good thing, but I'm pretty new at the internals of an engine. I've already got a guy on the 1100f site an hour away

[Johnnylevi]

So... I have adjustable floats on my carbs. With the metal tabs. That means that they are 79 and not 81 carbs right???

[Johnnylevi]

 
Yeaaauhhh

Also going to pick up 900F cams, 4-1 kerker exhaust and quite possibly a 900 engine next sunday... stay tuned

[shinyribs]

Niiiiice....I'm tuned....

[Hoosier Daddy]

900F engine, not the one from a C with the dual speed trans, right?

[Johnnylevi]

You are correct the F not the C

[Johnnylevi]

Also, hoosier or anyone who'd like to chime in. Whats so special about the kerker exhaust? I know it is sought after so i jumped on the chance to get one, but what makes it so great?

[Johnnylevi]

so... when i first go the bike i started to take it apart and tore off the old muffler I had on it...pretty much wrecked it. As I was reading up on kerker exhausts I noticed they all had removable baffels and remembered mine had a bolt in the side of it... turns out I had a kerker on it before I knew anything about bikes and ruined it... kicking myself right now...

[LukeM]

Live and learn.  That's life.  You get used to it after a while.

Luke M

[shinyribs]

LukeM wrote

Live and learn.  That's life.  You get used to it after a while.

Luke M

True. Check out my sig. 


Johnny,anything that can be wrecked can be un-wrecked! You can fix it

[Johnnylevi]

Thanks, guys! I think i will fix it. As soon as i learn how to weld :P. The header had a bunch of rust on it and has holes in it. the muffler is just rusty and a little chewed up

[shinyribs]

If you're cool with header wrap you could probably get a muffler shop to weld some patches on there if the holes aren't too bad. It would be much cheaper than a new exhaust system. If you can clean the parts to bare metal and/or supply the needed patch pieces you could probably get it done real cheap.

[LukeM]

If you're the cheap sort, this is another alternative.

I'm mostly kidding: welding or replacing is the way to go. But I did quite down the muffler on my old Chevy II with some of this stuff back in the 70s, until I got enough money for a new one.

Luke M

[Lucky 1]

Coils almost never fail.

IF the bike has been sitting it may have clogged up idle jets.