Caleb Foster
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How does the Cylinder Machining Service Work?
CMC Philosophy It's a sad fact that many of the key components of vintage motorcycles are no longer produced and will never be produced again. To keep these old bikes in service and preserve the...
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How does the Cylinder Head Machining Service Work?
What is a cylinder head, and why does it matter? An engine’s cylinder head is a large chunk of milled metal that caps off the engine’s cylinders. It contains the combustion chambers where power ...
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Prep & Installation of Pistons and Machined Cylinders | Vintage Honda Motorcycle Engine Top End Rebuild
While the machining and restoration of your cylinders might be done when they arrive back from the Common Motor Machining Service, the work is not. Rebuilding the engine from the ground up requires...
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The Late Electric Starter Safety Switch Circuit (Post 1974): Electrical Troubleshooting and Basics on a Vintage Honda Motorcycle
The late electric starter circuit is probably the most complicated circuit on these old Honda motorcycles. We often see parts of the original circuit bypassed or not functioning right but just l...
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The Early Electric Starter Circuit (Pre 1973): Electrical Troubleshooting and Basics on a Vintage Honda Motorcycle
The electric starter circuit can be a more intimidating circuit to approach due to its inclusion of high voltage and a solenoid. With that said, when broken down it is nothing more than a few ...
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Caleb Foster created an article,
The Three Fuse Headlight and Running Light Circuit (Post 1974 Late Style): Electrical Troubleshooting and Basics on a Vintage Honda Motorcycle
Honda motorcycles from roughly 1974 and on incurred many specific changes to comply with worldwide safety regulations. Many of the changes were aimed at increasing visibility on the road and saf...
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The Single Fuse Headlight and Gauge Light Circuit (Pre 1973 Early Style): Electrical System Troubleshooting and Basics on a Vintage Honda Motorcycle
Most of the 12v motorcycles made by Honda in the late '60s to the early '70s fell into 2 distinct categories of electrical design. There are what we call the "Early" motorcycles, which primarily...
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How to Assemble the Keihin Round Slide Carburetors on Your Honda CB175 / CL175 / SL175 / CB200 / CL200
Part 1 _______________ Welcome to part two of our series on rebuilding the Keihin round slide carbs found on Honda 175 and 200-series bikes. If you’ll recall, in the last article we tore down a ca...
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How to Synchronize the Keihin Round Slide Carburetors on Your Honda CB175 / CL175 / SL175 / CB200 / CL200
__________ Getting Started On a motorcycle with a multi-carb setup, each carburetor must have identical settings for the bike to run properly. Dialing in all these adjustments so that your carbs a...
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How to Disassemble the Keihin Round Slide Carburetors on Your Honda CB175 / CL175 / SL175 / CB200 / CL200
__________ Look, we’ve all been there. You just picked up a new classic Honda—this time it’s one of Team Red’s tiny, mighty twin cylinder 175 or 200 family of bikes—and despite your best efforts, ...