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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:50 am Post subject: 73 CB350
Hi,
I am new here. I have been riding for 35+ years and have owned many bikes and currently ride a Harley Road King. Through the years I have had many Hondas, VFR750, XL350, VTR1000, ST1300, CB750F(81) and a CB750(73) as well as a few of the off brands like a Suzuki GSXR, Kawi ZX11 and a Ducati ST4. All that to say I decided some time ago to do a restoration but couldn't decide what to do. Then it struck me that the perfect bike would be the same as the first I ever owned and that was a 73 CB350 twin. Bought brand new in 73.
After some searching I found the perfect candidate. An original 73 in Edmonton. It looks like it has been painted with a mop and is kinda crusty but has been ridden. 8000 original miles and it is complete. My gracious brother-in-law will be picking it up next week, crating it and sending it to me here in Ottawa,
Let the games begin.
So I imagine I will be around here quite a bit looking for advice and searching out various bits and pieces. The first order of business is complete as I have ordered the complete Repair Manual for the bike.
Joined: Jan 05, 2009 Posts: 622 Location: Michigan
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: 350 honda
I am also new to this site and would like to know who said they could get the repair manual for free? I have a 72 CL350 and would find that a great help as I am on a very strict budget. Someone from Laporte, Ind. wrote that,? maybe. I am just over the hills in Niles Michigan. I am not restoring but building my 350 into a street bobber, complete frame redo to a ridgid, with a sprung solo/bycycle seat, low rise bars that are inverted, using old style controls, i.e. no switches on them, have lowered the battery box, and fabricated a fake oil tank below the seat to house the wiring, etc. I am using Avon Speedmaster tires for the "ol skuul" look. I am retaining the front brake assembly as it has a retro look. The cl mufflers were rotted through, so out came the sawzall, cut them about 2" past the existing bracket. I then found that the exhaust flanges that hold the head pipes in place, "found a set on a wreck" that using them as a internal spacer would allow me to use a Harley muffler set. So now I am in the process of making running boards, a little tricky as the lower frame rails which I kept intact are different heights, I moved the front brake pedal to in front of the boards, and I fabricated the pedal to use the brake pad off a Harley Softail forward control, the stock one, bout $4.00 at the H.D. shop. I have also converted to a hand shift which is on the right side, using some of the stock linkage and found that 3/8" pipe will fit in and clamp down where the old center stand was located, that is now the pivot point for the shifter. In any case this is a brief history of my project, bike has 11000 on the clock and runs great, and I want to keep it that way, so wouldn't mind coming up with a tree repair manual. Now, thank you for reading this, hope I didn't offend anyone because of what I'm doing. c-ya Blue
Joined: Jan 05, 2009 Posts: 622 Location: Michigan
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject: cb 350
Paul, Welcome, I to ride a Harley, Duece but have been really enjoying the older Jap bikes. I might have some (not many) take off parts that might help. I am new enough to all this that I don't know if 72+73 interchange. I do know that the CL has the side pipes and the CB low pipes, but other than that not sure what else would fit. I did find a real nice headlight in the J&P catalogue, side mount, 12v, chrome/ with high beam indicator that was pretty inexpensive and fit like a dream, between the headlight wings, I know that the original plastic headlight on the old Hondas was broken many times cause of the way the tab hooks in at the top is pretty thin and I think they also get brittle with age. Anyhow, good luck with the project, hope to have mine going by April. c-ya Blue
The bike has been picked up and is now resting comfortably in my brother-in law's garage ready for crating. Thanks for the tip on the manual. I downloaded and printed it out so I am ready to go as soon as it gets here.
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 1356 Location: LaPorte, Indiana, USA
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: 350 honda
Blue wrote:
I am also new to this site and would like to know who said they could get the repair manual for free? I have a 72 CL350 and would find that a great help as I am on a very strict budget. Someone from Laporte, Ind. wrote that,? maybe. I am just over the hills in Niles Michigan.
I have two official Honda Manuals you can download, one newer and one older.
Both contain errors, so you should have both.
Yes, I'm in LaPorte, available to help or work on your 350. _________________ Bill Lane - CB200-CM200-CB450-C70M-CL350
"When your only tool is a hammer,
everything starts to look like a nail."
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject: CB350 a couple of picks
These are two the seller sent. The tank on the bike is from a 350 four and the original tank is being shipped along with the bike. My brother-in-law will be taking a few more before it is crated.
I haven't been around in awhile work has kept me real busy but the bike is finally home. It rested in my brother-in-laws garage until the beginning of April and I received here from the transport company last week.
So far I have cleaned and bled the front brakes and cleaned and adjusted the rear. After charging the battery I got it to start this weekend. It runs fine and the work will continue.
The bike is an amazing contradiction in that it has not led a pampered life. But amazingly once through the grease, grime etc. what shows up is a bike that truly shows a condition that matches the7900 miles on the odometer. The stock mufflers are in decent shape and so far Honda of canada has turned out to have a decent stock of parts available. I have ordered all new wheel bearings, turn lenses as well as tail-light, fuel petcock, clutch and throttle cables etc. There is one thing missing that I will begin searching for and that is the rear grab rail. The stock seat cover is shot but I ordered and received an excellent placement with the right stitch pattern and the :HONDA" logo properly stenciled on the back.
There is one thing that confounds me however and that is the side cover emblems. The bike is definitely a 1973 (all numbers are correct and it has the disc brake and center console between the tach and speedo) but the side cover emblems are the small version from earlier years. I thought at first that maybe someone had replaced the correct side covers with ones from an earlier year. The bike has been repainted with what looks like a mop but when I look at the inside of the sidecovers the original paint overspray is there and it is the stock orange as is the underside of the tank. I am pretty sure that the orange was only used in 1973 and not before so I am in a quandary. No matter i will also be looking for new side covers with the larger emblems.
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