1976 CB550F "Barn Find"

Re: 1976 CB550F "Barn Find"

5 YEARS. 5 YEARS OF SPORADIC WORK. SHES ALIVE!!! SHE RUNS!!!! ILL POST A VIDEO AFTER I RECHARGE THE BATTERY!!! THANK YOU GUYS!!! WILL KEEP YOU POSTED!!!
 
Hey man, must confess that I haven't read through all your thread but do see that you've been working on your ride for 5 years - congratulations on getting the old girl fired up! Man, I know when I got my bike to fire for the first time it sounded better than Beethoven's Fifth. Happy for you mate, hope you're riding that beauty in no time
 
awesome man! that Master and levers went out on Wednesday (had sick kids, sorry!) you should see it soon! hope they work for ya
 
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Thank you all! And miniatureninja, I'll keep my eye out for it, appreciate ya!
 
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Checked the tank, she's clean as a whistle. The old gas had turned milky, but after a flush, it came out clear. Next on the list: attach the wiring harness to the frame and go through my carbs. If anyone has pictures of the way the 550 wiring harness routs, that would be invaluable. It's surprisingly difficult to find actual pictures of the harness on the bike.
 
I don't have a picture but it should be somewhat self explanatory. Should run from the headlight and handlebar stuff down the backbone to the under seat stuff.
 
Wiring comes out of the headlight bucket and wraps around the left side of the frame, under the gas tank mount past the coils down the backbone and then splits off to all of the places in the rear of the bike mainly staying on the left side from what I remember. The points wires and rear brake wire routs down the right side at the point where the backbone attaches to the rear section. Otherwise, you'll see where stuff fits/goes and possibly swear once or twice while you have to re-route it for some reason. Usually not too hard or bad. I couldn't find an in-process pic of my wiring of the last several cb500/550's I've had over the years. If I find one, I'll update this post.

Edit: I found one from an older 500 that I had. It's not the best/cleanest pic, but hopefully it helps somewhat.
 

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Re: 1976 CB550F "Barn Find"

Great! That's exactly what I was looking for! Any suggestions for dealing with extra harness that hangs in front? I have a smaller headlight bucket, so I can't cram things in there.
 
Yeah, this is where you come into modifying the harness, or seeing if Sparck Moto could help you out. http://www.sparckmoto.com/ <---Matt is from here (DTT), cool guy.

But otherwise, just wrap it nice and tie it out of the way like Ninja just said ^^^ You need to RIDE that mofo this season!! WOO!
 
^^^ Sonrier (Matt) owner of Spark has great products and great customer service if you need it. I prototype tested his FB-11 fuse block and used it to re-wire my whole bike one circuit at a time and eliminate a lot of the harness doing it on my GL1000. 2 seasons of riding later and it's still working great. He also now owns vintage connections so you can get all the bits you need to build a harness or you can have him build you one to your specs.

http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=74475.0

thats the FB11
 
Maritime said:
^^^ Sonrier (Matt) owner of Spark has great products and great customer service if you need it. I prototype tested his FB-11 fuse block and used it to re-wire my whole bike one circuit at a time and eliminate a lot of the harness doing it on my GL1000. 2 seasons of riding later and it's still working great. He also now owns vintage connections so you can get all the bits you need to build a harness or you can have him build you one to your specs.

http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=74475.0

thats the FB11

That fuse block looks great, I think I am going to get one for my GT500.
 
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Ive wanted one of his harnesses but they're a little out of my budget. Once it's riding and everything else is out of the way to make it safe, I'll hop on it for sure. Function over form right now. Like you guys said, I want it on the road this season!
 
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I will be redoing the electronics bay, especially now that I have access to a full machine shop, and his fusebox is number one on that list. Second is the regulator/rectifier
 
He gives you very easy to understand instructions in hiw to wire things through it. My GL harness was wrecked completelty from a deer deciding to run into me sidelong so I had no choice but to almost start from scratch, that FB 11 made it soooo much easier for me
 
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