Recent content by Gobengo2011

Hi all! so i have a 1978 cb550 that i bought not running, tore it down put in new rings lapped valves honed cylinders and checked clearances. all good ;D i have recently got it running and have put about 500 miles on it after the rebuild, have good compression set my valve lash and changed oil...

I figured it out, had a damaged wire, two strands of copper charging the battery doesn't work too well, explains why it worked for 3 hours the kaput. Thanks guys

At idle I'm getting no power from the charging system, I've heard this is normal for these bikes, at 4k I'm getting about 14 and it goes up from there.

So here's what happened, I'm running a 78' cb550 with a ricks Motorsport electric regulator rectifier unit, I rode the bike yesterday for about 3 hours, ran perfectly, except I noticed the idle would drop suddenly, having to play with my idle all the time. So I got to a red light and let the...