Honda CB500 Barn Find - Will it run?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we got my old CB500 running after sitting for almost 40 years. You will see this bike on the channel again at some point but stay tuned for our next big project unveiling.
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I can’t believe you haven’t got a sonic cleaner. Essential in my opinion for carbs in this condition especially . Nice bike, I recently did a ground up on one and sold it. Beautiful bikes
That is one good looking old bike.
I had a CB 350-four. My buddy's Suzuki 450 blew it doors off until we hit top end. Then the 350 would slowy pull ahead.
The 4 cyl Honda's were sweet engines.
Honda certainly know how to build a starter motor.
Honda the best.
No shit, that’s what I was thinking all video. Makes me feel a lot better about how I’ve treated mine.
Back in 72 my bride to be rode a Honda 450 all around 3 western states, never missed a beat, it would kill me today! Nice job and brings back memories of all my tinkering and 56 years of riding.
Bought a new CB500 in June, 1972. It was a great starter bike -- easy to learn on, and fun to ride.
Yes, she runs!
My first big bike I rode was a CB500, back in early eighties. Been a while but I will never forget the power it had!
Awesome stuff!
Always enjoy this man's thorough approach. It's a great feeling when an old engine bursts into life after decades of silence.
if i've learned one thing from watching quite a few of your vids, it's that old hondas never die. no matter how forgotten or neglected, show'em a little love, and like sleeping beauty, they'll wake right up and give you a smile.
All the CBs were very good bikes.I have an '80 750c & I absolutely love it. Way way more than my sportster!!
I had a cb500 in 1985. Lovely bike. Even back then I had someone leave a note on it asking me if it was for sale. Not had that with any other machine.
I have a 71 cb500 same color can't beat that sweet aging
This would be cool as a just a restoration to original instead of a mod. These are neat bikes.
It’s just nuts to me how these old CBs will most often spring back to life with just a little bit of fettling. New battery and carb rebuild (along with flushing other fluids etc.) will typically have you back on the road right quick!
It's a Honda.
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my first vehicle was a 1975 cb 550/4, bought it for 300 bucks. rode it to school and a long time after i graduated. loved that bike.
my dad had a cb 550/4 ran great and never broke down
Don't toss the seat pan, strip the old foam off but keep the pan.
Definitely. I'm missing the entire seat from a cb550.
Bought a CB400F new back in 76, it was a screamer! Tons of fun for a newly married 20 year old, worked at Vetter Fairing at the time. Was going to put one on it, but we had a baby, and I got into the "death wobble " @ 105mph, decided to sell it and got something heavier. Still that bike was a great starter bike, still riding at 65.
Not much I love more than seeing old bikes come back to life. You should've taken some footage of how dirty it was when you got it!
Yeah really wish I would have done that. It was so bad I wanted to hose it off before I even took it off the truck.
Wow, another classic Honda, try to keep it standard, it looks cool 🙏
getting a 80 CB500 tomorrow I'm excited to restore mine back to life me and my dad will have a project to work on together 🙏
Please keep the 73’ CB500 original. 🙏 It is too pretty to convert into something it’s not.
nothing is sacred!
You right!
Absolutely. Don't want to see yet another CB Cafe bike...
The man can do whatever he damn well pleases with his motorcycle.
This is America - No idea what a classic is ... Just look at all the waste here. Fan, electric lighting when its full daylight, fridge in the garage .... The land of consumption dummies.
I bought one new in 73 it was a nice bike. It ran well and I finally sold it to a kid in 78, he tried to semi chop it with some 6” over stock forks and 6 bend pull backs a sissy bar and a fat rear tire. The long story short it eventually killed him. It apparently was very unstable.
I had a CB 750 in 1979 and sold it for more than I paid for it to a collector in 1990 those were some solid machines
Those Hondas were the most reliable objects
This bike came out when I was 17. I bought a Cycle and Cycle Guide magazine every month and pined for one of these and for the '73 Kawasaki Z1. Congrats man. Do it justice.....
Hi Taylor. Just fitted one of the 12” shorty mufflers to my 1974 550. Looks great and sounds even better. Thanks for the tip. Wayne.
I have woned about 12 CB's over my 50 years of riding CB350 Four CB500 Four, CB450, CB550 Four CB750 and CB900 but the CB500 has always been my favorite bike...
Got a 500 in the 80s tried to go to work got down to 20mph smoking and a dude with a Mohawk hung out the window of a car laughing at me.Fuel leak ran out of ⛽ walked to a station filled a couple of pop bottles with gas and got it to the station.Got home and parked it for good.
When I got into riding motorcycles at 16 or 17 i quickly went into sportsbikes and could never understand what made all the old folks like those weird looking 30, 40 or 50 year old bikes.
Not that I get older I start to realize that at some point in time those where to the young folks back then what a S1000RR or a ZX10R is for the boys today, and that is freaking cool.
Just recently I saw some pictures of someones first motorcycle tour. Germany to Italy in 1979, on 250 two-strokes. Seeing those guys 40 years ago beeing literally no different then me and my friends where 5 years ago just made me happy.
People dont change and neither does ne love for bikes.
I saw the shiner Bock and immediately subscribed, Texas forever
I have a golden retriever named Shiner too. :-)
I had a 1975 Honda 500T twin and loved it..What a great engine!!!..Actually used it to tour out west for a few months in 1976 and it did really well..
The "T" was touring right, so it had 6 gears?
cb500/550 - great project bikes!
Fezzler61 cb500/4 is a much better bike than the famous 750 really. Really great bike for the era there still looks amazing all this time later such a sweet little smooth engine.
I enjoyed this video. My first bike was a Honda 550-Four. It had a sad ending. The man I sold it to used it to jump hills and trails off road. The bike did not survive that afternoon/evening.
they were not design for off road
Good job bringing it back to life! Carburetor cleaner from a spray can will work great as a starting fluid, and because it burns slower, more like how gasoline burns, there's no risk of damaging engine bearings and connecting rods, like there is with ether (starting fluid) which is much more explosive. Good luck with it, love the old inline, carbureted 4's!
Really like this video, longer and more explicit on what you're doing
You damn Honda Classic Junkie! Proud to be apart of this elite club. lol Just started my two CB900 Customs after sitting for yearssss!
Phenomenal video! It gives me the confidence to pick up a non running (clean) CB! Thanks for the info!!!
I had a 1972 CB500 was fun to ride
Seeing how many carbs you rebuild, you should definately invest in a ultrasonic cleaner. Did it on many carbs and it really works better and faster than carb cleaner
I really want one. Any recommendations on brand?
I'm not an expert on the differents brands out there but I know they are 2 categories: the ones you can find on ebay for about 100 to $200, which I think will do the job just fine, and the profesionnal stuff that retails for 3 or 4 times more. I think that the ebay stuff (brands like GTSonic) will be perfectly good. I do not own one myself because the shop close to my place has a huge one where you can sink 4 carbs without even separating them and they do it for pretty cheap so I always go there :). But I think I might buy one for smaller bikes with twin or single carbs or even for other pieces than carbs. Since you almost always separate your carbs in your vids I think you could go for something like that too, the smaller ones where you can fit just one carb even retail for $50
By the way I love that 500, can't wait to see what you'll do with this one and what is your other non-Honda project :)
I'm working on 3 bikes at the same time myself haha, a CB360 with a short circuit somewhere... a CX500 and a FJ600 :)
Take care
Yup. Look at sharpertek, I went a little bigger and got the heated model 11L so I can completely fit a holley 4 bbl in it, it was about 1100.00 with the 4 different detergents I got with it, the smaller ones are a few hundred less. You DEFINITELY want the SC20 and shellac buster detergents, they rip through the crusties in float bowls and jets like nothing I've ever seen!!
My first st bike was a CB550-4 w a kirker 4-1 pipe loved that bike
Rode a 1983 Honda CB900F Super Sport back in 1990 for a couple of years... best bike I’ve ever ridden, aside from my first brand new bike I bought in ‘76.... a brand new Yamaha RD400c; that was a totally different driver, of course, but still dream of the many miles I put on it way back in time.
I’m super stoked to see what the next non Honda bike is going to be. I love watching all your vids man. Keep up the awesome work
I will reveal the new bike as soon as the current barn to brat bike is done.
23:37 I love hearing old engines wake up from the dead!
1. Assume all carbs are dirty and all idle air passages (the fuel supply at idle) are clogged shut, because they are the smallest, and gas with ethanol wicks up into the tiny passage, and then dries out, leaving resin to block the hole. Only a thin guitar string and carb cleaner can open them.
2. You can always find out if a bike is worth rescuing by using starter fluid in the spray can into the intake. If the bike can fire on starter fluid, then it will usually run once you've sorted out the carb cleaning.
A bike that starts on starter fluid has both spark and compression, leaving only the timing and fuel air mixture left to diagnose.
Timing can be both the advance, or the timing chain adjustment. Easy to miss on some older bikes.
That pipe corroded because water accumulated there when a tarp was placed over it, years and years ago. Probably a cotton blanket. Only touched that place on the bike, and of course, the seat.
I would return it to 100% original using as many genuine honda parts as possible
The cool thing is I already have almost every part I would need from past projects.
I tried to do this some time ago... but one of the issues is that the parts are so old. I remember buying a headlight casing OEM for my 73' CB 350 and when I installed it the casing cracked. The rubber parts are also disintegrating at this point.
Do you use non ethanol gas after you rebuild the carbs ?
I just said to my wife, this is one bike that was pretty much perfect looking from the factory and i see from the comments many people agree. Your mods are usually ok, but in this instance its like drawing a beard on the Mona Lisa, you could but why would you.
Instead of throwing the seat out you could strip it to the base and keep the plate if you ever want to build a original bike. It's easy to get it repolsted.
Will do!
Classic Octane the paint looks awesome like the most recent barn to brat! I have actually bought a cb 500 recently and will try to restore it! You're a great inspiration and I like your videos!
Pops and bangs are always great!!
You lucky man. I used to have Honda 400f in the eighties.
That sleeping vintage monster.. You awake it..
So cool😍😍
Very interesting, I had a CB550F 40 years ago!
Shiner in the beer fridge. Been a fan, now I'm a subscriber!
I have a 1974 Honda cb550 four it sat for 30 years I cleaned the carbs an points an started right up also the pipes were completely rotted off got some nice 4 into 2 slip on mufflers
Original, except the exhaust. My 74 model had 4 mufflers. Nice video.
I have so much history with acN50ff scoots. Great bikes Honda built the beat thing with this bike
Those are beautiful bikes. I’m new to the channel but have enjoyed this video. I am a subscriber now. One of the better channels, in my opinion. Very tasteful.
Thanks!
Im from maryland but that is the best casual beer to drink. Nothings finer than a shiner!
Hey, I love your vids! Thank you for all of the inspiration to do my own build.
Thanks! Good luck on your project.
I enjoyed the video. I was cheering you on. Start little Honda start!
It needs the I-talien tune from Vice Grip Garage!
Good condition for its age.If it was me, I would spray some oil into cylinders and manualy turn crankshaft with kick starter slowly.Then before trying to ignite would clean carburators regardles.
Thanks for the video! I just scored a 70’s 500 four chopper as a barn find as well. I’m hung between painting the springer front end due to a good bit of surface rust. I want to keep it as original to the 70’s look as possible. These are some amazing motorbikes.
Please do a proper restoration.
I plan on doing a “restomod” type restoration soon. Stock looks but just updated for reliability and safety (brighter LED lights, etc)
Ian let's be honest, main good things from that era are engines (motors) and the rest is nostalgia
Oil doesn't lose its viscosity, you keep it clean and it will last for years and do its job in any engine. I wouldn't contaminate the new oil with a bad and dirty oil filter. Not a good idea. I would pull all the plugs and run a compression test on each cylinder so I know how the engine is doing for wear. I also would check the chain tensioner and make sure the valve timing is correct and that the valves are set to the right clearances before running it and bending one of them if it is off. Yep that thing is going to be a ripper.
Great new project! I'm actually visiting Austin, watching this episode, waiting to go to a sales presentation and wishing I could skip that and come help you with those awesome CBs. Love your channel - keep up the great work!
Classic Honda's are great. I have 3 of them.
This year I insulated my garage door, installed weather stripping, and put in a 14k BTU dual hose portable AC unit. The best $300 I ever spent.
Thanks for this video. A lot of the parts looked very similar to my old CB400F. Brought back a lot of fond memories.
You don't have to look at the title, the year is on that tag on the neck of the frame.
Love your show keep up the gd work bud building cafe racer can't wait the bike finshed
First bike I owned was a CB500T (twin cylinder). Bought it for a song, sold it for a whimper. Kinda wish I still had it.
Nice bike!!That was cool I was excited to when I heard the engine.
Nice video Taylor!!
nice to see things brought back to life . thank you
Lol, so many guys begging for a resto in the comments... IMO these bikes have enough life left in them to update them to more modern standards, and that's fine. The beauty of these bikes are really their customization potential, and frankly owning an old bike for me means molding it to whatever my needs and desires may be.
And they made a million of them. The "black bomber" might be different, but the world won't miss yet another generic CB.
Nice vid dude but I reckon you need to make sure those carb jets are properly clean (especially the pilot jet) and also take into account you are starting the bike with no air filter connected so hence, sucking too much air in.
Hope you get it running sweet man.
Love your videos! Watching from Malawi
I love your video as a frustrated mechanic who end up different carrier. I prefer the Honda 500 and roar sound..
great video love the bike cannot wait till next one
I have had about 7 f those from a 200cc, 350cc,500cc a couple were 4cyl but mostly 2cyl and a 1965 Superhawk CL/CB350 wish I had them today , Just missed out on two Suzuki GT360s for $800
Its running! Thats a great start.
I had one of these as my first motorcycle back in 1993. I wish I would've kept it!
this bike looks so good stock i would just bring it back to life.
When I had a CB400-4 IN 1978-80 a friend had a CB550. I was very happy with my 400-4 but the 550 had a slightly nicer tank design.
i had a Cb 400-4 i miss that bike. my dad had a cb 550-4 he miss that bike they both ran with no problems]\
Man bro it's so hard to find a good Barn find like this in California.
1st time viewer man,very interesting work with a great outcome through troubleshooting.Will be watching to see how the bike turns out thanks!!
S W E E T. understood next build will probably be something else... I would watch this CB500 build. 🔧
SHINERS!!!!! My favorite craft beer!
I have a cb450 needs wiring, hopefully get to it very soon
I love this old Honda’s myself. I’d love to build one on a cruiser frame. I would rather have a CB750, with an 836 kit, but would settle for a smaller engine.
I haven't done a cruiser style build on a Honda yet but I agree that the 750 might be the way to go for that style.
I had a cb 750 a when i was young Loved that bike Wish i could find another to play with
you should take a small sample of the oil and send it to a lab
they can give you the break down of said oil
that way you can see how bad or how good it is or if there are metal shavings in the oil
also good idea to look at the condition of the spark plugs can tell you a lot of what is inside
Past 2 bikes I’ve worked on that starter switch has had a weird film on the contacts and as soon as I hose it down with brake clean and steel wool they’re reliable
haven't watched the video, but if its Honda, it will run, no matter where you find it
Shiner bock! Oh those were the days... 👌
thanks for the video!
You will end up flooding the carbs in a minute your carbs will need to be balanced as well but apart from that it sounds nice
Awww! I have cb 500 four, when i was much younger. ;D It was -74 and same colour green/black. Race "pipes" but all original. Nice video thx man! :D
Ps. How many miles odometer when u buy that beautys? :D
It varies, I have had some with 8K and others with 28K
I have a 1982 cbx500 turbo that is collecting dust I need to start working on.
Your getting there ...thanks for sharing .
That is awesome, both in look and find. I agree with some other comments, I would go for a proper restoration. Also, maybe keep that original seat pan and sell it? Just junk the foam. Keep on keepin on. Also, what do you plan to ride in the DGR this year?
I just moved to Austin and quickly learned motorcycles are the best way to get around in the traffic. Let’s go for a ride sometime! I have knobbies on my FZ1 and want to ride one of the dried up lake beds. How cool would that be?!