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1983 CX650 Eurosport restoration thread.

Right on Tim. :thumbup

Interesting tid bit on the engine badge. :cool
 
Larry had a few things to do over the last weekend, wrap his boat for the winter, and deal with gunk that he thought was a failing fuel pump, but might be boogers in one of the tanks.
Still, he made progress with the front brake system.
The Orange you see is EBC semi-sinter pads.
Note the reflection in the polished TRAC system.
Shiny!

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Soooo nice!
Brings back fond memories of my first road bike, a lightly used CX 500 I purchased in 1979 I think.
Great little bike that I rode with equal parts of ignorance and bliss...:)
 
Not sure but I think we might of met years ago at the west end of HWY 36 at the gas station. You would have been on a beautiful turbo CX.
When I traveled to Canada in the late 90's , the CX was a favorite up there, super common.
DT
 
Funny thing about Larry.
He doesn't like boredom very much.
(Who does?)
So, engine in.
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. . . and I'm about to learn something I've never known about CX bikes - apparently, there's an adjustment with the swing arm pivot that varies between engine in and engine out.
(Larry)- ”With the engine tightened up in the frame, I can now set the
proper adjustment for the swing arm pivot. With the engine not in the
frame, it will spread out the lower mountings. Then when the engine is
tightened up, it'll put too much tension on the pivot bearing."

As long as I've owned and worked on CX's, including a couple of engine out repairs, I've never known this.
I'm not even sure it's in factory manuals. . .
 
Tim-That CX Guy said:
My other bike is a highly customized 1978 CX500.
Click to expand...
I sold these new at Pop Kenyon's in Sunnyvale. Aside from the styling, I thought it was a great bike. We touted the no-hassle aspect... electronic ignition, Comcast wheels, driveshaft, tubeless tires, easy valve access.

One of the guys I worked with, who's done a number of killer restorations, is currently restoring a 650 just like yours. It's S/N 55.
 
Nice... one more step closer to rolling it out of the door and onto the road! :thumbup
 
Getting there.
I have a pair of NOS throttle cables coming in from CMSNL, a NOS clutch cable from Italy, and left and right controls to fix wiring issues as well as a cracked housing on the left control.
 
That time you bought beat up handlebar controls for restoration (because the housing wasn't cracked)
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Discover that the ignition control you're replacing came off of a different bike.
The one on the top is from a Eurosport, the bottom possibly from a GL650 Silverwing.
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Only to find that you had a near restoration grade control sitting in a drawer all along. . .
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"D'OH!!!"
 
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