CB350 Cafe...The 7 Year Bitch! Blew a coil... damn it!

[BCBarker]

Make a lot of Carb progress.. All I need to purchase now are new o-rings. I can't see spending a ton of loot for the OEM o-ring kits, so I'm doing Rouge! Ordering from an O-Ring supply house. Does anyone know the O-ring size for the float bowl o ring & the pilot jet? Also if you know the float bowl o ring sizes for a CB350F I'd love to order extras for that bike too!

[boomshakalaka]

The o-ring for the float bowl is not actually round but instead it comes in the 5sided shape of the bowl.  I guess if you found the right size you could make a round ring work?  Ive also heard of people using gasket glue or something to cut the right length then glue it together at the cut ends.  I wouldnt feel too good about that solution though seeing as its up against gasoline.

[BCBarker]

I know the o-ring you take out of old nasty carbs are 5 sided, but they are originally round o-rings... I just ordered a bunch of different sizes and spent less than honda charges for their kit! I figure someone has to do it so we all can know and never pay for those OEM ones that are way too over priced! next mission is to find a replacement for those little rubber plugs in the pilot jet hole. Sirius can't be the only after market place to sell them. There has got to be a .50 plug that will work! I'll let you know if there is!

I think my mission is to create a full o-ring / SS screw & nut kit for the CB350 Carbs. Would anyone be interested in this? All the hardware including the nuts?! I Almost have it all figured out.. including the butterfly screws! And I'm thinking about a SS screw kit for the engine cases that include the flat heads on the sides! you can never get those in the EvilBay SS screw kits!

[BCBarker]

OK! Finally got some work done. Motor in the frame, Carbs ALMOST done (waiting on that little white plastic plug) Exhaust back from Thermal Coating, and most things installed. Once I get the carbs done, I'll be to the "tuning" part.. I hate that part!

But here is how she sits right now.. Tank and seat aren't on quite right. I'm still working on a quick release for the eat.. although JRK has me thinking more and more about Velcro...

Things still to do:
Get running,
Rear-sets (picked up a Duc-Monster brake petal that looks promising)
Mirrors? (threw on on old set upside down. Not sure if they will work in actuality, but I thought I'd see.)
Install chain
make wheels pretty (it will be a cold winter thing.)

[tWistedWheelz]

Looking good, are those the factory mirrors just mounted to the headlight ears? That looks great, never thought of that!

[tweakin]

I dig it.  I really like the the way you did not change it up too much.  Nice work, now get that biatch tuned

[Traveler]

VERY nice bike.

I really like the way you resisted the urge to spend alot of money, and have been doing it yourself.

Anyone can throw money at a bike...but to built it yourself is the way to go, IMHO.

~Joe

[boingk]

Schmick mate, bloody nice indeed. Really like that front fender as well, sort of thing I'd like to do to mine when I get around to it.

Don't sweat the tuning, just set the mainjets so they give the best pull at higher rpm and then stuff around with the rest until you're happy. Its always a good feeling to tune a bike well, not to mention people can often be surprised at how well it goes for "an old girl". Good luck with it.

Cheers - boingk

[BCBarker]

Thanks for all the Positive feed back! I feel like this bike has been "in the works" forever! I hope this weekend or next week I'll have it running... unless the wife finds more shit for me to do!

As for the mirrors.. Yep.. factory mirrors upside down. Not sure how practical they are. I think I'll eventually get some classic bar end mirrors, but I saw a BMW with some mounted kinda like this so I thought I'de give it a try.

As for not changing much, I just really like the classic lines, and I hate cleaning, Ditching the rear fender meant more cleaning, so I kept it. If I was going to race it,  could easily drop it, but for now, Fender it is!

The main jets are 115's. I think that should work with a 2 into 1 and V stacks. I also have 105's if I need to step down and then drill them larget a little at a time. I guess I should just ask ChrisF what his jetting is on his 2 into 1... Chris?

The rest of the tuning is what I hate.. The electrics and such! Athough I'm going to try a home made manometer for this bike.

[troybilt]

Congrats bud. bike looks fantastic. I had to read twice to make sure it wasn't photoshop magic, haha. I even like the mirrors like that as long as they work. Looks different and kinda cool! Just look at it again. Heck yeah, I'm lovin it! really nice work!

[BCBarker]

FINALLY thanks to Boom the Carbs are back together, Looking GREAT and ready to go on the bike.



Also been working on some rear sets. I'm not really a huge fan of the aluminum/home made ones, So i'm trying to make them outta the parts that came on the bike.



Not that hard with the shifter side.



The brake side is forcing me to switch to cable operated. The stock arm just isn't good for reusing in any other way than honda designed, so I got a Duc brake arm cuz it was the most promising at the junk yard. This is where I am right now. Still need to make an armature for the cable on the pedal side. Thinking the wheel side will have it's arm attached to the brake stay. Once I fab it up I'll post the solution!

Any feedback is welcome!

B

[boomshakalaka]

sorry it took so long!  glad it worked out though.  Stock derived rear sets are looking good!

[BCBarker]

So all this snow in VA has really been slowing down my progress!

BUT I did get the rear sets welded up and painted. They are pretty much finished except a final coat on the shift linkage and hooking everything up. I went with a cable hook up for the brake. If I find the right brake lever that can be easily modified I'm going to convert it back to something along the likes of CCrider's mechanical control. I just like the thought of keeping the "original" technology.

Here they are. I'll get better pics when the weather is better, but you can see from the "parts" pics how they came together.


Pegs fold up for I can still use the kicker! Kicker arm clears the brake arm with lots of room to spare too!

Black on black is kinda hard to see... sorry. Look at the Parts pics for close up details.

[VonYinzer]

Very cool man. Im doing something similar with my rearsets... The shift side is going to be GP style, which is the easy way out, but its really clean looking so thats a plus. The brake side Im not sure about yet... Your bike looks terrific though!

[BCBarker]

Thanks.. as much as I love snow, It SUCKS not to have a shop to work in! All this snow makes working outside COLD! I even tried starting a fire in my fire pit, but it was still too cold for me. I'd rather be drinkin' than freezin'! AND it's supposed to snow today!

the first time I built this I was working for a Car Dealership in the service/bodyshop building so I was able to have a warm shop with 20 mechanics & body men with tools to borrow as needed. Now I have a 7x10 shed PACKED with all my toys and no room to work in!

I tried to convince the wifey to let me bring it into the house, but she wasn't too keen on the idea (dunno why).

I just want some 50 degree weather so I can work on this thing!