Four Wheel Forum

Well, grad school is kicking my ass financially and I am forcing myself to consolidate projects. Unfortunately this means the 95 might have to go. While it has been a great project, I am itchy to have another one to help cope with grad school stresses and I don't really have room or $$ for two so I ...

Having just finished my rebuild (well, it's never finished) I can say that you should definitely do yourself. Smithers' tutorials got me through it. There are enough of us on here now that have done it and enough of us with service manuals (grab one if you can find it cheap but don't spend 50$ on a ...

I took 2 off since I had a spare engine so I practiced on the spare before I hit my real one. One of them was on there so tight that when it finally 'popped' the puller went jumping off onto the floor and I lost the wrench I had been using to tighten it for 2 days. How do they say it in formula 1 ...

Before adjusting anything (since it otherwise runs fine and seems to go away once you ride it for a while?) When you start it, give it full choke and start it and just as soon as it fires off start backing the choke down until it is the minimum needed to run. Once it gets started it shouldn't need ...

If the smoke has a blue tint and a particular smell (one which I don't know how to describe) it is oil.

If it is white and doesn't have an unusual smell (just fuel), it is probably just running a bit rich. Have you used the choke for starting at all?

Coker sells whitewalls but I don't know the price. I also don't know if it shows up in their inventory online. You might have to call. I know someone who recently sold his CA95 with new whitewalls he got from there though.

Safety wire is better than duct tape! Well, maybe. Still, Smithers' advice is right on. This is how I clamped all my hoses until I found some good aircraft clamps to use. Hell, its how we clamp half the hoses on our airplanes : p

The carb feed seems to be especially susceptible to leakage due to ...

You will need to take the coil off before the extractor will help you much. Take the bolts off that hold the coil on. There should be a few. One is a nut on a stud which I can see in your picture. Then tap the ring just a few times with a hamer, preferably a rubber mallet if you have one, around it ...

Before you search the timing problem too far, it probably isn't the timing. I would guess you have it right. I messed with the timing for 3 weeks only to find out that there was a wire out of place elsewhere and I was missing 1 half of the coil under firing. The timing light made it look like ...

I just got out my service manual (I found it after doing my rebuild) and I have a picture showing that the official way of setting the timing marks is 'up'. The cam sprocket mark goes toward the top of the head. The crankshaft sprocket mark also goes to the top of the head. The book's wording makes ...

Hey, you never know. Maybe someone will put out the startup costs to create a manufacturing line to make custom mufflers for the 200 surviving bikes and make a fortune of fives of tens of dollars... Yeah, probably not going to happen.

In Smithers first picture you can see the plates I am talking about. You have to take the coil off first. This might be a little awkward, but once you take the retaining bolts off, you should be able to just work it off by hand, or with a little help from a hammer. Once you get a crack between it ...

If memory serves, the magneto has 3 circular plates with the stacked magnetic plates sandwhiched in between. I think I got mine off by hooking onto a combination of these plates. That said, I bought a small gear puller which ended up not working because as it tightened, the arms hit the top of the ...

http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Honda_CA95

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Motorcycle-Repair-837/CA95-Benly-Touring-150.htm

According to the second link:


Benly serial numbers through the years:
1959= C(A)92 or 95-9XXXXX
1960= C92 or 95-0XXXXX
1961= C92 or 95-1XXXXX
1962= C92 or 95-2XXXXX
1963 ...

An idea I kicked around for a while was to do like they do in the Model Ts. They are a 6 volt system also and there is a lot of literature on LED headlights for these things. Unfortunately many parts proved hard to come by or expensive. It would be a hell of an upgrade though. Still, I *Barely* ride ...