Re: 78 cb750K won't fire up. (1 coil fires other doesn't)

Posted by mitchberry on Sep 12, 2010; 6:55pm
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oh yeah... re-run..   as far as never having a problem with your bike....  

That's cool..  i have heard nothing but good things about these bikes... and.. well.. honda in general is NOTORIOUS for making a VERY mechanically sound motor... those stupid little scooters from the 60's n 70's claimed literally to be bulletproof... and... they pretty much were.. i saw a clip where they dropped one off a 5 story building just to test out how indestructible they were..   and.. it fired right up..   albeit, they couldn't ride away with it because the wheels were destroyed..  

anyway, honda is a super reliable machine in general.. and these cb750's are no exception for damned sure.. that's why there are soooooooo many of them around...  and there are soooooo many parts to choose from..

 whereas my 69 suzuki T500, i only know of 3 in my entire city ... only mine and 1 other run and are street legal...   not saying they aren't dependable, but.... nowhere NEAR as dependable as the cb's have been..

 with that said, someone at some point was going to restore this bike, and they tore it into pieces and stuck them in a box for god knows how long...  then the guy GAVE it to this kid who started to put it back together but realized he had no idea what he was doing, and eventually sold it to me for $200 bucks...  since then i went completely over the wiring...

 now that it (somewhat) runs,  i'm going to fine tune it and tear it BACK down to pieces and clean, powdercoat, chrome, polish etc all the crap on it that i can afford to do as i can afford it...   put it all back together and get it street legal..

the fortunate part is that since i have a vintage bike already that is titled, registered, inspected and street legal,  i can pretty much swap my license plate between them..   my 2 suzuki's are both 69 models, and no one knows the damned difference...  i probably wont have honda badging on my 750.. .so, really, no one will know even a cop...  not that i ever get pulled over on my bikes...   then again, i will get everything taken care of with the bike once it runs reliably and get it titled and registered so i can sell it eventually..

once i finish this project, i'll sell and start another... i enjoy making them as much as i enjoy riding them.