'76 cb360 cafe:ROUND 2...third times a charm!
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Re: '76 cb360 cafe
a few more photos from the other day
lollipops
scooped up a moto 4 on the cheap
today i did a quick wrap on the seat. i was super sick of just the blue foam. I'm going to re-do it yet again once i get some 1/4" foam and back the vinyl wrap and stitch them together for some pleats.
a few more photos from the other day
lollipops
scooped up a moto 4 on the cheap
today i did a quick wrap on the seat. i was super sick of just the blue foam. I'm going to re-do it yet again once i get some 1/4" foam and back the vinyl wrap and stitch them together for some pleats.
Re: '76 cb360 cafe
Bought a few things from www.hondacb360.com that needed to be addressed. Brake master cylinder rebuild kit and engine gasket kit.
As soon as I broke the line free from the master, I smash my thumb
And break the brackets I made for the speedo
Then trying to remove the snap ring in the master took forever because it was so rusty. It even broke the tabs off, I had to use picks and tiny needle nose to remove it.
But I finally got it apart/rebuilt and got the brake bled. Ready to ride except for all this damn rain! Also have been busy with my brothers xs850 hard tail project. Sneak peek...
Bought a few things from www.hondacb360.com that needed to be addressed. Brake master cylinder rebuild kit and engine gasket kit.
As soon as I broke the line free from the master, I smash my thumb
And break the brackets I made for the speedo
Then trying to remove the snap ring in the master took forever because it was so rusty. It even broke the tabs off, I had to use picks and tiny needle nose to remove it.
But I finally got it apart/rebuilt and got the brake bled. Ready to ride except for all this damn rain! Also have been busy with my brothers xs850 hard tail project. Sneak peek...
Re: '76 cb360 cafe
back from a while rest. bikes been running pretty solid. after changing the engine gaskets, the motor still leaks a bit of oil. shifter shaft seal maybe? i haven't gotten a chance to pull the cover off and check yet. in the meantime, i got some krylon stained glass paint, and painted my headlight yellow.
i dont have a pic of the light at night, but its still pretty bright.
rode ~50 miles to my cabin this weekend, it was a pretty fun ride. lots of back roads with lots of turns
also ordered an exhaust builder kit from TC Bros, should have enough bends/straight pieces to fab up my exhaust. ill be making the 2-1 exhaust and making a muffler as well.
oh, i do need to order new throttle cables, these are stretched/sticky. they are adjusted out all the way, still a bit of slack in em.
back from a while rest. bikes been running pretty solid. after changing the engine gaskets, the motor still leaks a bit of oil. shifter shaft seal maybe? i haven't gotten a chance to pull the cover off and check yet. in the meantime, i got some krylon stained glass paint, and painted my headlight yellow.
i dont have a pic of the light at night, but its still pretty bright.
rode ~50 miles to my cabin this weekend, it was a pretty fun ride. lots of back roads with lots of turns
also ordered an exhaust builder kit from TC Bros, should have enough bends/straight pieces to fab up my exhaust. ill be making the 2-1 exhaust and making a muffler as well.
oh, i do need to order new throttle cables, these are stretched/sticky. they are adjusted out all the way, still a bit of slack in em.
justinedible4
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Re: '76 cb360 cafe
This is a very cool bike! The paint reminds me my old 91 Nissan 240sx which was also charcoal grey metallic.
This is a very cool bike! The paint reminds me my old 91 Nissan 240sx which was also charcoal grey metallic.
Re: '76 cb360 cafe
so then the cutting began. cut the head pipe flange part so it bolts to the engine the same. the pipe was triple walled. nick cut the outer most layer only to sleeve the new exhaust pipes on to.
started with some 90s out of the head
then the sweep under the frame of the bike
nick gave me this half of his old exhaust from his cb550. only needed it for the coupler mostly.
s-bend to the coupler
roughly what she'll look like
mock up of the muffler. i used a piece of 2.5" i had laying around
welded together
on to baffle making time. took some gutter mesh, rolled it up and welded two 1.5" pieces on the ends to hold it together
used a hole-saw and cut out an end piece for the baffle, then welded a nut to it to mount it inside the muffler and it can be removed if re-packing is needed.
wrapped with some fiberglass scraps from nick. held together with SS cable ties
baffle in muffler
rolled it out to the street for a quick start up. has the same kind of tone, just more quieter. much nicer
tomorrow i will grind the welds down, paint the exhaust with some heat paint and then wrap it. more pics when that is complete/ possibly a video.
so then the cutting began. cut the head pipe flange part so it bolts to the engine the same. the pipe was triple walled. nick cut the outer most layer only to sleeve the new exhaust pipes on to.
started with some 90s out of the head
then the sweep under the frame of the bike
nick gave me this half of his old exhaust from his cb550. only needed it for the coupler mostly.
s-bend to the coupler
roughly what she'll look like
mock up of the muffler. i used a piece of 2.5" i had laying around
welded together
on to baffle making time. took some gutter mesh, rolled it up and welded two 1.5" pieces on the ends to hold it together
used a hole-saw and cut out an end piece for the baffle, then welded a nut to it to mount it inside the muffler and it can be removed if re-packing is needed.
wrapped with some fiberglass scraps from nick. held together with SS cable ties
baffle in muffler
rolled it out to the street for a quick start up. has the same kind of tone, just more quieter. much nicer
tomorrow i will grind the welds down, paint the exhaust with some heat paint and then wrap it. more pics when that is complete/ possibly a video.
crazypj
Split personality, I fake being smart
Re: '76 cb360 cafe
"not half bad" ?
It looks damn good, particularly for using up 'scrap' pieces, better than the one I made for mine using mostly scrap lengths cut from old Harley pipes
Loud pipes don't save lives, they just make you deaf ;D
checko said:
"not half bad" ?
It looks damn good, particularly for using up 'scrap' pieces, better than the one I made for mine using mostly scrap lengths cut from old Harley pipes
Loud pipes don't save lives, they just make you deaf ;D
3DogNate
"You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda"
Re: '76 cb360 cafe
I rode behind a guy riding a 110 Fat Boy with a pair of Bub "Jug Huggers" for a while not too long ago... that was PAINFUL. Sounded like someone firing an M-60 in my face after a while. That's probably the loudest bike I've heard in a while.
My XS650 is going to be a 2-1 straight pipe at first...it's probably going to be rediculous. I'll likely have to make a baffle for it. but the 2-1 I've got on hand looks too cool not to use.
checko said:
I rode behind a guy riding a 110 Fat Boy with a pair of Bub "Jug Huggers" for a while not too long ago... that was PAINFUL. Sounded like someone firing an M-60 in my face after a while. That's probably the loudest bike I've heard in a while.
My XS650 is going to be a 2-1 straight pipe at first...it's probably going to be rediculous. I'll likely have to make a baffle for it. but the 2-1 I've got on hand looks too cool not to use.
focusinprogress
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Re: '76 cb360 cafe
I'm the "nick" mentioned helping with the exhaust.....I copied my baffle I made for my XS650 to build the baffle for this pipe with checko..... My xs650 sounded like a weedwacker with the stock MAC baffle, and just too damn loud without the baffle....so I cut the old baffle up and used the same mesh and fiberglass packing to make it the same "noise" as baffle-less just quieted down. I love the way it sounds now, it's "just right"....kinda like goldilocks and the three bears lol.
3DogNate said:
I'm the "nick" mentioned helping with the exhaust.....I copied my baffle I made for my XS650 to build the baffle for this pipe with checko..... My xs650 sounded like a weedwacker with the stock MAC baffle, and just too damn loud without the baffle....so I cut the old baffle up and used the same mesh and fiberglass packing to make it the same "noise" as baffle-less just quieted down. I love the way it sounds now, it's "just right"....kinda like goldilocks and the three bears lol.
