81 CB 750C

Seat hoop welded, now onto the battery box and seat pan.

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Looking great. I'm interested in seeing what you come up with for the battery box. I'm ready to tackle that next for my DOHC as well.
 
BigNickel said:
Looking great. I'm interested in seeing what you come up with for the battery box. I'm ready to tackle that next for my DOHC as well.
I spent many hours brainstorming and a couple hours with cardboard and tape. Still not loving what I came up with so it may change. I'm open to suggestions.

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Any chance you wouldn't mind throwing a tape on your rear axle and letting me know the length?
 
MORK said:
Any chance you wouldn't mind throwing a tape on your rear axle and letting me know the length?

Hey man sorry for the late reply. I measured it and then my furnace shit on me so I forgot to post the dimensions for you.
The overall length is 13" to the outside of the axle. Let me know if you need anything else.
 
Hi, im lurking do the ton since a while
I registered to suggest you to rotate the rear fender a bit in order to look more horizontal
A scramblish look more or less
Keep it up it's becoming beuatiful

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Rick cb650 sc said:
Hi, im lurking do the ton since a while
I registered to suggest you to rotate the rear fender a bit in order to look more horizontal
A scramblish look more or less
Keep it up it's becoming beuatiful

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Thank you for the recommendation. I have been pretty busy lately and haven't had much time to work on the bike, just time to think about it. I have decided to go without the fender for now and it will look something like the picture attached.
 

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Doing a little work as my schedule allows. Got my fender area welded up and made some progress on the battery box then ran out of weld wire.

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Man, I hate when that happens! Nothing worse than running out of wire mid-job.

Looking good so far though Ike; keep it up!
 
Cookie said:
Man, I hate when that happens! Nothing worse than running out of wire mid-job.

Looking good so far though Ike; keep it up!
The good thing was it happened when the kids were waking from a nap so I had to stop working anyways. Good news picked up more wire this morning!

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I got a little more work done on the electrics box under the seat.

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OK gents I need some advice. I've just about finished up on the rear end and I'm prepping to strip down and paint the frame. I threw the wheel back on to check my clearances from tire to fender area. With an F shock mounted I'm sitting at 3in of clearance in the lowest area. Trying to figure out if I will be good with that or if I need to reshape my fender to give more room. I plan on buying decent progressive shocks for front and rear but if it needs more clearance then now would be the time to do so. I would prefer the shocks bottom out before the tire contacts the fender. Please help!

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You could always do cbr wheel swaps. You’d be able to get better handling tires. Lots of guys over at the cb1100f.net site have done them. One of them sells a kit with the right spacers. It’s an option. You’d also have at least another 1” of clearance.
 
brad black said:
take the spring off the shock and collapse it. if the tyre hits the plate, make it so it doesn't.

It does hit that's why I'm trying to find out if the shocks will keep it from happening, if not then I'll have to reconsider.

esmoojee said:
You could always do cbr wheel swaps. You’d be able to get better handling tires. Lots of guys over at the cb1100f.net site have done them. One of them sells a kit with the right spacers. It’s an option. You’d also have at least another 1” of clearance.

That is an option, I am currently just trying to run with what I have to get her road worthy and then later on look into things like that. I just don't want to add more things to the equation right now like figuring out new rear brake setup, chain alignment, spacers, etc.
 
I gotcha, riding season is fast approaching. When you do decide to do it I would reach out to the guys on that site. They have all the info and parts you’d need. Good luck and I hope to see you get her out soon!
 
you could put a spacer around the shock shaft to limit the travel. something with two halves that screw together.
 
brad black said:
you could put a spacer around the shock shaft to limit the travel. something with two halves that screw together.
Yeah I thought about something along those lines, that could risk damaging the hydraulic mechanism of the shock. I also considered welding some sort of stop across the top of the swingarm. How can I know the full compression of the shocks?



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your spacer will hit the top of the shock body when the bump stop hits it. no difference to anything else, i would expect the external bump stop to limit travel before the internal anyway, and you're not going to full compression.

i wouldn't stop the swingarm, that'll stress it where you stop it as the shocks will still try to let it move.

remove the spring, that way you'll know exactly what the shock is doing.
 
If it's the seat base that'll make tyre contact first, you could beat a hump in it, which I did, and made 20mm extra clearance at least.

No detriment to the seat foam, as I was having 50-60mm thickness.
 
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