I found the next project bike! I managed to fit all this in the car yesterday and bring it home for the awesome price of $750.
Here it is still in the car.
I’ll be starting on this project in about a month or so. I still have more work to finish up the Sabre Cafe.
This week I’m finishing up a few things and getting the bike ready for paint.
It turns out that the Gremlin I was chasing was created by me! Yes that’s right… I calibrated the tachometer WRONG! Ha!
It’s all good though because along the way I discovered a few more issues with the carbs. It seems I had the emulsion tubes in the wrong locations. After a little help on a forum, I got it right.
This is how the emulsion tubes go in a 1985 Honda VF700S Sabre.
I fabricated the parts I needed to install my CBR 600 rear shock. It was a tight fit but it’s on the bike and works much better than the old air shock.
Enjoy episode 23…
keep on hackin!
Well here it is September 30th and I still don’t have the bike finished and on the road. I chased out another “Gremlin” though in the form of another faulty CDI box. It was the one with the rev limiter and it’s been replaced with a unit without a rev limiter. It revs to 6K now but no higher. I’m going to re-tune the carbs next. I really have no idea what work might have been done on them in an effort to fix the problems this bike had when it was first brought to the shop I bought it from. That’s for next week’s video.
Keep on hackin…
In this video I pretty much rule out the carbs as an issue and I also do a valve adjustment. I replaced the CDI ignition unit that controls the spark to the front two cylinders however that pesky Gremlin is still there! At 5,500 RPM the revs just fall off on the front two cylinders. More troubleshooting required.
Keep on hackin…
