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Recent purchaser and head mechanic / slave to a 1980 CX500. 'Cycle came in pieces, 37xxx miles, slightly crashed and bent some distant time ago. Parked in a barn for the last two years. Carburetors were in a box with most parts present. Later found to be missing a bung and and a collar. Couldn't locate a collar, made one out of a couple of brass jets soldered back to back, some sanding, drilling and a functional collar. Don't remember now what I used for the bung. Recently found a collar spacer on the front axle missing. A trip to the handy dandy wrecking yard came up with piece of shock mount tubing that was close diameter. A little cutting, circular saw with abrasive blade, grinding, and welding with the wire feed welder (I really do need more practice) and a suitable replacement was fabricated. This same collar part along with the speedometer gear was also missing on the '79 parts donor bike I recently purchased.
Having a parts bike seems to be a most reasonable way to keep one of these 30 year old 'cycles going. Parts bike is lower mileage than the street legal bike (maybe). Recently purchased another even lower low mileage CX500. Common story, parked in the shed a year or so ago, now it doesn't run. I'll take it!!! Haven't even seen the bike yet. Concerning the axle collar, I do have an OEM part on order through the local Honda,X,Y,Z dealer. The part might be in this year! Or not.
I live in the Denton, Texas area, USA , quite near Ponder, Texas. Think of that. Rural area with thousands of natural gas wells. Many rural roads, populated with 18 wheeler tanker trucks hauling salt water from the wells. They'll sneak up on you.
I'd like to mention as an addendum to the carb. cleaning articles that an electric Dental "WaterPiK" water jet makes an excellent miniature pressure sprayer for cleaning carb passages. Shoots 6% white vinegar like you would not believe. Follow that with a spray of mostly pure water recovered from a dehumidifier, to clear the vinegar, then an air pressure blow, and good to go. Wear eye protection. Spraying can create quite a mess. Coffee filters are suitable for filtering the vinegar for reuse, if you cheap out and don't purchase a whole gallon. The pressure spraying operation is after a 24 hour soak in vinegar, more or less, on the time.
This got way to long, sorry.
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