Steve C
XS650 Addict
Good luck. There are worse carbs to get back on a motor but I can’t think of any right now.
Make sure you grease the rubbers for smooth insertion!
Make sure you grease the rubbers for smooth insertion!
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Sure makes you appreciate the simplicity of our little 650’s ! 
kawabunga
XS650 Addict
I’ll see if I can put it back together that way. Thanks!
CBX carbs are not too fun when you have to drop the front mounts and lower the engine to get them out. Another good idea from HondaGood luck. There are worse carbs to get back on a motor but I can’t think of any right now.
Make sure you grease the rubbers for smooth insertion!
Just curious, what do you plan to do with the corn?
It wouldn't be exaggerating to say I could fill a 3 1/2 gallon bucket with all the corn, hay, dead critters, and pet food I've pulled out of barn find intakes and blown out of mufflers over the years.
That seems to be a common thread with barn finds. Did the nice chew up any of the wiring?
I seldom think of them as nice.
But no, I have not seen any wire chewing. The mice don't seem to be all that big on wire but I have had some other rodents create problems with that. Took me a couple years to find the chewed wire that killed the AC after some meadow critter got into the Sprinter van engine compartment and munched down while we were camped in Montana one night.
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Corny huh!
One of my stepsons bought an Evo Superglide HD from a brother Boilermaker sight unseen while on a road job several years back.
Paid a transport agency to have it shipped from NM and delivered to my work in GA so I could ride it to his house. Bike arrived on a really nice pallet with decent hold down straps so I untied it, rolled it off, got a can of gas and put some in the empty tank.
Turned the key and fired it up, seed shot out of the exhaust like a cannon.
Now that I think about it reminds me of an old Quaker oats commercial
One of my stepsons bought an Evo Superglide HD from a brother Boilermaker sight unseen while on a road job several years back.
Paid a transport agency to have it shipped from NM and delivered to my work in GA so I could ride it to his house. Bike arrived on a really nice pallet with decent hold down straps so I untied it, rolled it off, got a can of gas and put some in the empty tank.
Turned the key and fired it up, seed shot out of the exhaust like a cannon.
Now that I think about it reminds me of an old Quaker oats commercial
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kawabunga
XS650 Addict
Oh man! You just blew some poor mouses house out the back! 
PS, someday you’re going to have to teach us how you post those nice videos that you don’t need a link to open!
PS, someday you’re going to have to teach us how you post those nice videos that you don’t need a link to open!
txxs
XS650 Addict
Looks like each little critter had their own private quarters.An '83 GL1100 I resurrected after sitting 20 years in a barn.
An '83 GL1100 I resurrected after sitting 20 years in a barn.
THAT's what I'm talk'n about...
Video Worked for me AFTER I opened the link in a separate tab...
kawabunga
XS650 Addict
PS, someday you’re going to have to teach us how you post those nice videos that you don’t need a link to open!
I upload all of my forum content to imgur, ever since photobucket gave us the shaft... For the video I just put it in-between the [ IMG ] code. I guess it autoplays for some but not all? It autoplays for me on my Mac desktop and my iPhone.
Is that how the term Peashooter came about?!? Lol
Back together and took it up and down the road. Self back patting alert;
It's running perfectly, idle to red line and everywhere in between just like a Honda should.
Since my temp tank holds about a quart it wasn't a long ride.
Everything works correctly, Shifting, clutch, brakes, lights, charging, all good. Tires have good tread but are about 14 years old, A bit of corrosion here and there most of which will polish up.
Need to order a side cover, do some gas tank flushing and get a petcock intake pipe screen, about another days worth of polishing and it'll look quite nice. Allison is already hovering over it
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About installing carbs; I girded for battle.
Installed with the rubber connectors on the carb bodies. Lots of Sil Glyde, used a heat gun to warm, soften the rubber. Pushed both carbs down/onto the spigots, one SIDE (front and rear carb) at a time, used 1x4 and 1x2 as levers between the frame backbone above and the aluminum pan/carb rack, repeat on other side, done.
Use lots of caution when levering on that pan it isn't real heavy duty. But the install was actually easier than I expected. Didn't even have any leftover parts!
Pulled float bowls, removed cleaned mains, emulsion tubes, and pilots, made a tool to remove the odd D shaped idle mix screws,
Took a 1/4" bolt shank, about .240 OD, drilled a .177 hole in the end about 5/16 deep, lightly dented one side to fit the head, bingo bango. .177 is a #16 drill bit 11/64" would probably work also. Mix screws were all about 2 turns out, reinstalled at 2 1/4 turns.
cleaned those, used a wool pad on the dremel to buff the float valve seats, lots of carb cleaner, a light smear of Hylomar on the float bowl rubber seals. No carb parts were needed. Just a bit of varnish and fine rust here and there. The pilots were about 80% blocked.
It's running perfectly, idle to red line and everywhere in between just like a Honda should.
Since my temp tank holds about a quart it wasn't a long ride.
Everything works correctly, Shifting, clutch, brakes, lights, charging, all good. Tires have good tread but are about 14 years old, A bit of corrosion here and there most of which will polish up.
Need to order a side cover, do some gas tank flushing and get a petcock intake pipe screen, about another days worth of polishing and it'll look quite nice. Allison is already hovering over it
.
About installing carbs; I girded for battle.
Installed with the rubber connectors on the carb bodies. Lots of Sil Glyde, used a heat gun to warm, soften the rubber. Pushed both carbs down/onto the spigots, one SIDE (front and rear carb) at a time, used 1x4 and 1x2 as levers between the frame backbone above and the aluminum pan/carb rack, repeat on other side, done.
Use lots of caution when levering on that pan it isn't real heavy duty. But the install was actually easier than I expected. Didn't even have any leftover parts!
Pulled float bowls, removed cleaned mains, emulsion tubes, and pilots, made a tool to remove the odd D shaped idle mix screws,
Took a 1/4" bolt shank, about .240 OD, drilled a .177 hole in the end about 5/16 deep, lightly dented one side to fit the head, bingo bango. .177 is a #16 drill bit 11/64" would probably work also. Mix screws were all about 2 turns out, reinstalled at 2 1/4 turns.
cleaned those, used a wool pad on the dremel to buff the float valve seats, lots of carb cleaner, a light smear of Hylomar on the float bowl rubber seals. No carb parts were needed. Just a bit of varnish and fine rust here and there. The pilots were about 80% blocked.
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Bob; the beemer is gone, sold after I got the Venture so there was room in the shed for "just one more" .
Bob; the beemer is gone, sold after I got the Venture so there was room in the shed for "just one more" .
Ring the bell, schools back in! The professor does it again! You really do make it look easy.
Thanks for sharing this job with us.
Thanks for sharing this job with us.
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Bob; the beemer is gone, sold after I got the Venture so there was room in the shed for "just one more" .
Im not surprised you got it sold. It’ll be a nice bike for somebody.
That is just weird.
Is that supposed to keep people from changing the factory settings like the way Yamaha pressed a plug over the idle screw?
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