Posted by PotentiallyAndy on July 25, 2005, 2:31 pm
Hi
New to this sort of thing (both groups and bikes) so please bear with
me.
I have a 1981 Honda CB750 Custom and I want to remove the carburetors
to give them a good cleaning. I have the correct Clymer Manual for my
bike, but I am having a problem.
To remove the carbs (accoring to the manual), you must first remove the
battery box bolts and move the battery box to the rear. You can then
move the air box to the rear too thereby allowing you to remove the
rubber intakes from the carbs.
When thats done, it describes how to remove the carbs.
HOWEVER: (and here is the problem) The battery box will not move to
the rear without first moving forward to clear its bracket. But it
can't do this as the air filter box is in the way.
As far as I can see, the air filter box can't be removed unless the
rubber intakes to the carbs are removed first, which you can't do
unless ....... I seem to be going in circles.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance
Andy
Posted by kriyamanna on July 25, 2005, 2:58 pm
PotentiallyAndy wrote:
> HOWEVER: (and here is the problem) The battery box will not move to
> the rear without first moving forward to clear its bracket. But it
> can't do this as the air filter box is in the way.
> As far as I can see, the air filter box can't be removed unless the
> rubber intakes to the carbs are removed first, which you can't do
> unless ....... I seem to be going in circles.
Well, I don't happen to own a CB750C, but if I was going to remove the
carbs for cleaning, I would spray all the rubber intake hoses with
aerosol carburetor cleaner to soften them up for easy removal. Put some
rags under the hoses to catch drips. The carb cleaner might soften
paint.
The hoses will be more flexible and you can probably gently pry the air
box hoses off with a screw driver. Some kinds of hoses have a groove in
the air box end, and those hoses can be shoved back into the air box.
Posted by gsl on July 25, 2005, 6:55 pm
wrote:
>PotentiallyAndy wrote:
>> HOWEVER: (and here is the problem) The battery box will not move to
>> the rear without first moving forward to clear its bracket. But it
>> can't do this as the air filter box is in the way.
>> As far as I can see, the air filter box can't be removed unless the
>> rubber intakes to the carbs are removed first, which you can't do
>> unless ....... I seem to be going in circles.
>Well, I don't happen to own a CB750C, but if I was going to remove the
>carbs for cleaning, I would spray all the rubber intake hoses with
>aerosol carburetor cleaner to soften them up for easy removal. Put some
>rags under the hoses to catch drips. The carb cleaner might soften
>paint.
>The hoses will be more flexible and you can probably gently pry the air
>box hoses off with a screw driver. Some kinds of hoses have a groove in
>the air box end, and those hoses can be shoved back into the air box.
wouldn't the carb cleaner eat at the rubber hoses?? try using a
hairdryer to soften up the rubber hoses first.
Posted by kriyamanna on July 25, 2005, 8:16 pm
gsl wrote:
> >The hoses will be more flexible and you can probably gently pry the air
> >box hoses off with a screw driver. Some kinds of hoses have a groove in
> >the air box end, and those hoses can be shoved back into the air box.
> wouldn't the carb cleaner eat at the rubber hoses?? try using a
> hairdryer to soften up the rubber hoses first.
If aerosol carb cleaner does anything to rubber hoses, they were
totally dried out, cracked and generally useless. Carb cleaner just
contains xylene, which is used for paint thinner and acetone which is
used for nail polish remover. It takes a long time soaking in acetone
for it to attack paint...
Posted by Tdi on July 25, 2005, 8:23 pm
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> gsl wrote:
> > >The hoses will be more flexible and you can probably gently pry the air
> > >box hoses off with a screw driver. Some kinds of hoses have a groove in
> > >the air box end, and those hoses can be shoved back into the air box.
> >
> > wouldn't the carb cleaner eat at the rubber hoses?? try using a
> > hairdryer to soften up the rubber hoses first.
> If aerosol carb cleaner does anything to rubber hoses, they were
> totally dried out, cracked and generally useless. Carb cleaner just
> contains xylene, which is used for paint thinner and acetone which is
> used for nail polish remover. It takes a long time soaking in acetone
> for it to attack paint...
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> the rear without first moving forward to clear its bracket. But it
> can't do this as the air filter box is in the way.
> As far as I can see, the air filter box can't be removed unless the
> rubber intakes to the carbs are removed first, which you can't do
> unless ....... I seem to be going in circles.