Filed under: electrical mess | Tags: honda, LED, light, motorcycle, signal, turn, winker
LED turn signals installed and wired in. you can use any light for the turn signals. here i chose these. they were easy to splice into the existing wires that were left when i ripped off the old turn signals. but they don’t flash yet. so next i will get a new flasher box
Filed under: electrical mess | Tags: CB400F, custom, honda, light, motorcycle, tail, vintage
i needed to ditch this jumbo stock tail light. the lens was broken and gone anyway. + the thing was just giant.
so i got this vintage lucus tail light from a old motorcycle side car. actually i got it from my buddy at the friends of the library.
i had to replace the innards, cause the lucus wires are pathetic little worthless wires that blow fuses and things like that. so i used a socket from a turn signal that was set up for dual filament for some reason. anyway it works!
here’s where it’s going
and here’s the finished light. just plug in all the wires, and it’s done.
Filed under: da pipe | Tags: 400, CB400F, chrome, exhaust, four, honda, new, pipe
i needed to weld on some kind of baffle to the 4 into 1 headers. when i got the bike it had no baffle and the baffle mount on the frame was hacked off. so i got a harley soft tail stock baffle on ebay for $5 or so and put it on.
here’s the finished pipe. and below is the new mount welded to the frame. kind of hard thing to weld with the bike all together. good enough, it will work. and turns out looking kind of sporty
Filed under: tire | Tags: 18, 400, 90/90, bald, CB400F, change, Durotour, flat, four, front, honda, IRC, leak, slim, slow, sport, super
the front tire was bald so i had to get a new one. this is true. the back tire was fine, so i got the same kind to match.
the IRC Durotour 90/90 18 inch tire
here’s how things went.
Filed under: Keihin | Tags: 4, battery, carb, carburetor, clean, four, junk, Keihin, signal
the first thing i wanted to do when i got this bike was to drop the handle bars some. clubmans are too low and hard to handle. so for quick results i used and old moped tricky and flipped the stock low rise bars.
next was to hack off some of the junk on the bike. giant turn signals practically the size of headlights, some broken some good, all into the trash. the horn was ready to be retired. the tail light lens was broken and missing, so the whole bulky bracket and all came off. this junk will get replaced with smaller, brighter better looking things.
the bike had a broken clutch lever, so i got a new one at cycle gear. new battery too.
with the battery in and charged. electrical is working. the indicator lights are on, headlight on, no tail light. electric starter works. bike doesn’t start tho, not yet. i put in some new gas, turned the cock on, and then push the start button. no starting. but gas pours out two of the carburetor drain hoses. four carburetors. four 20mm Keihin carbs all in a row.
pry, pull, twist out the row of giant carburetors. i figured the carburetors might be dirty from sitting around. i took em apart and there was some old gas goo build up in the float bowls and all over all the jets and needle valve and everything.
cleaned up all the parts and put it back together. hoping i wont have to repeat this ever again. i hate taking off these four carburetor set ups for some reason, and i hate putting them back on even more. i guess the reason is mostly the air box. mine is tottaly ruined as far as i can tell. the rubber couplers that go on the carburetors are hardened solid and wont go on the carbs at all. i’ll just have to get new ones, is that possible. i havn’t found a place to buy them yet.
float bowl
hot rod looking choke valves.
strange jets that don’t screw in. they just sit there and get pushed down by a clip. 89 main jets, or was it 98.
my least favorite part of the bike.
done
Filed under: CB400F | Tags: 400, beginning, four, honda, motorcycle, project, sport, super
my good buddy and co-worker mr. jimmy found me a free motorcycle. full story to come.
Filed under: CB400F | Tags: 1975, 400, ad, advertisement, cafe, CB400F, four, honda, motorcycle, racer, sport, super
