{"id":4011,"date":"2011-02-10T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:26:09","slug":"cb500-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2011\/02\/cb500-update\/","title":{"rendered":"CB500 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
So I’ve been working away on my cb500. I got it back in November and at that point it had been sitting for 22 years. After a bunch of work I got it running, what a great feeling to fire up a bike after it hasn’t seen action for that long! Here is everything I have done to it so far:<\/p>\n
So after all of that the bike is looking good and running pretty awesome. The only issue I’m having is a slight amount of smoke out of the #1 pipe. I think it is either a carb sync issue, or the fact that the small drain hold on the pipe seems to be clogged, so maybe its just water vapor burning off. Test riding the bike in really cold weather doesn’t help isolate the smoke. I haven’t done a compression test yet, but I’m pretty positive that’s not the issue. <\/p>\n
Things I still have left to do:<\/p>\n
All in all I’m pretty stoked, the project is coming along and I think I should have everything finished in time for the nice weather. I love the look of the 500\/550 stock, so as of right now I don’t plan on doing much to the bike as I already think its rad as shit. <\/p>\n