HondaCB650

The only marks are the marks left on the boots from when they were made. Lining them up is almost impossible; you can't rotate them while they are on the bike (the amount of space I have to work with could be measured in millimeters) and removing the carbs and putting them back on inevitably knocks ...

Carbs back on, here's some video of it, and how it sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LJ7WkSBcg Here's a second video, but this mostly me talking to myself about some other things I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBFOGdri3A On the plus side, when it was warmed up compression showed abo...

I got my carbs back on the bike tonight, and it runs, and no overflowing! I forgot to sync up the throttle plate on the #4 carb, so I have to operate it manually apart from the throttle - but I also don't have the airbox to carb rubber "connectors" on right, so it doesn't fit in there prop...

The knocking on the bowls may be a red herring. I knocked on the bowls with wood *after* I had also taken the tubes off that connect the carburators. As for my pile of parts - the floats did get kind of intermixed, but they all "float" and move freely. Due to staining (sigh) I was able to ...

Just keep watching. They'll pop up, just stay away from the guy that's parting out an '81 CB650 - he's asking for way too much money ($25 for an oil drain plug? No thanks.) Also, there's other web sites out there that are for junkyards, where you can ask for parts, and they will check their inventor...

Ebay will help you a lot with carb rebuild kits. I have an '81 CB650C that I'm working on , and I found carb rebuild kits for cheap - I'm talking four (4) carb rebuilt kits for between $50 and $100. A honda shop will ding you at least $50 *per carb*, so that's pretty good. Just make sure the jet siz...

I know for sure that the float valves are ok, and that the seats and so forth are working fine. Originally, I had carbs 1 & 2 , and 3 & 4 directly linked - bad idea. Overflow-o-rama. Removing that link helped a lot, but they still leaked. I need those tees. :( I thought up two solutions for ...

Last night, I disconnected those tees, and when the carbs overflowed, gas poured out them. Bummer. I took the carb bottoms off, checked again, put them back on, gave them a few good whacks with a board, and ran gas through them... no overflow, this time. I'm going to try a few hardware stores to see...

I have a 1981 Honda CB650C that I picked up for a song. I have thoroughly cleaned the carburators, and they are extremely clean at this point. However, since putting them back together, they overflow. Not out of the drain at the bottom of the carbs, out of the intake hole (the throat?). There is one...