20 Most Recent 1983 Honda CBX 550 F-F2 Questions & Answers

Clean fresh gas? Checked the spark? The spark plug wire ends should be replaceable. They usually just twist, or unscrew, from the wires. They can get corroded or just plain wear out just like a cars spark plug wires do.

The instruments have nylon gears and are prone to squealing when dry. Spray liberal amounts of PB Blaster into the cable ports. The graphite powder will not migrate to the gears. Repeat with the blaster spay if needed, do not over do the spray treatments. Spray some blaster in the cables too.

My bet is that it is actually coming from the speedometer. Try disconnecting either end of the speedo cable and see if the noise stops. If so, then all you need to do is apply a drop or two (but no more!) of oil into the speedometer-head bushing. Do this by removing the instrument cluster so you can flip it over - then put some light viscosity oil into the area where the speedo cable goes in. CAUTION; do not use more than one or two drops of oil - and do not leave the instruments upside down for any length of time. Failure to heed these warnings can cause oil to drip onto the face of the unit, making an unsightly (and un-fixable) mess.

Please let me know if this fixes the noise.

Buy 'Seafoam', put it in your fuel tank - about half the 16oz bottle, and keep turning over the bike. It will eventually clear out what is blocking your fuel and the bike will run. You will need to put the next half in the next tank of fuel. This stuff is amazing and can be found for sale on E-bay. No matter the cost, just get it. I tried everything else with my fuel issue and this is the only stuff that worked. All other fuel or carby cleaners just didn't cut it. It cleared it out within two tanks - half a bottle in the first tank, half a bottle in the second.

i would be looking at the battery it sounds like its not as good as you think it is,,,my honda give me lots of greef all down to the battery, and if its been standing around this long i would go around all the wireing joints cleaning every joint one at a time so you dont get lost and put some vaserlean/ petroleum jelly on every joint as for the switches get a tin of switch cleaner and give then a realy good swilling with it work in well into all the switches it has an oil in it that wont hurt any switches but it will clean and lub them
with only having 12 volts in the battery it realy dont take much of a dirty joint to stop it working it may look clean but it could still be to dirty to work well scrub the fuse box till its shiny clean then use the switch cleaner on it and after that use the pertroleum jelly on the fuses and all joints "every joint!"

its a carburation problem. probably due to either your choke sticking open or your fuel air mixture set up incorrect. check your plugs and have a look at the condition. if they are black and sooty your mixture is too rich. if theyre wet you possibly have a weak spark so check plug condition etc. if you can give me more info i maybe able to advise further.

Buy 'Seafoam', put it in your fuel tank - about half the 16oz bottle, and keep turning over the bike. It will eventually clear out what is blocking your fuel and the bike will run. You will need to put the next half in the next tank of fuel. This stuff is amazing and can be found for sale on E-bay. No matter the cost, just get it. I tried everything else with my fuel issue and this is the only stuff that worked. All other fuel or carby cleaners just didn't cut it.

If the fuel is a year old, Replace all of it.Stabilizers are not restorers. Your backfiring may very well be due to the inconsistancy of the fuel. Try it and see if that gets you flying.. good luck

sorry to tell you this but it might be the head. This model ran a no bearing head for the cams and they wear out. If it is the chain you got lucky, there are after market quality chains and tensioners out there

Greetings from Bermagui have you checked either the cdi unit or the coil pack? they made need replacing good luck 7 let me know how you got on cheers

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Have a look on E-bay, they have quite a few.

Have you tried dave silver sparesWww.davidsilverspares.co.uk

hi you can still get the fork stancions the tube part from dave silver spares, see link below http://www.davidsilverspares.co.uk/CBX550/

yes, automatic transmission fluid is fine. it is the correct weight for standard suspension. The thicker the oil, the harder your front forks will be.

hi,if the bike has been stood for a while,or played with by some one,the best thing you can do is strip the carbs and clean them,it sounds like a blocked main jet also check the fuel filter in the fuel tank(part of the fuel tap),stale fuel in the carbs will congeal and gum ,this deposit will block the main fuel stream through the carb,give the carbs a good clean up and your problem may go away...cheers

clean out fuel system completely .take carbs off and apart ,clean with carb or brake cleaner.