Re: My very first bike! 1980 CB750c

Posted by Yuxc on Apr 23, 2012; 4:15am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/My-very-first-bike-1980-CB750c-tp3241255p3931489.html

So its been a while since i posted/worked on my bike. I dont have a garage so she sat in the shed all winter. But anyways i finally tinkered around on her and got her to idle without choke at about 1300-1500 (im still nervous to set it any lower even though its supposed to be 1000 +/- 100 correct?), also when shes warmed up she can start without the choke . But anyways how did this all come about. Well it all started with putting a trickle charger on a neglected battery that sat in my shed all winter(i think i got lucky in the sense that the battery actually survived it). Okay, so she can turn over and run for a bit but sounds really angry that i spent all winter with the wife, i knew there was more work too do. Bought new plugs, was going to go with NGK Iridiums but i don't think they had my size so i went with standard D8EA's . Got oem paper air filter but found out when i switched out the k&n filter that PO had thrown out the metal bracket for original filter style, so i with the help of my wife, rigged up a new one which actually works quite well, its just a couple of small metal brackets lying in the shed that i got my wife to wire wrap together with a pull string made from wire to get filter out for change up. Bought proper o-ring for my front sprocket bolt that was missing, found out that i'm missing the damper ring still but i think i can manage without for now.  After switching out parts i decided to play with pilot screws on the bottom of the carbs. After first attempt the bike was running worse than the year before D'oh . Then when i took the tank off to better get a look at the carbs i realized that some fool who must have worked on them pinched a bracket for the fuel line that comes off the carbs in between the top cover and the i guess you could call it carb body on the number 2 carb! So i took it apart and got the bracket out and flatten the kink out of it with the back of a screw driver (most of my tools are at my work wich is about 40 mins away so i started getting a little primitive but not so much as to break stuff) any who i also found that the carbs are pretty fricken clean bonus on my part but i still decided to run a bit of sea foam threw her just to be safe. The fun part. I dont have my license yet but my buds took me riding last season (im able to with them kind of like a license parent/guardian lol) so convinced the wife to let me take a rip to make sure the sea foam runs through the system , right? lol Anyways took her for a bit of a ride i finished taking a turn and pulled my clutch to switch gears and she sputtered and died... so i pulled over and and put her in neutral clutch still pulled and tried to start. She had a little trouble but started up and i finished the rest of my little circuit and went home with no more problems. The funny thing is when i got home and im slowly bringing her through my fence my jeans catch on my chain link fence and rip my pant leg, so of course i go in the house and say i wiped out  So it was a pretty good day got my bike going pretty good played a trick on the wife and got to update my situation to you guys, sorry for the long read but its been a while since my last post and i just wanted you all to enjoy the good news with a bit of humor. Now i can start on some of the cosmetics...