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Firing on right cylinder only

mike in idaho
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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by mike in idaho » Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:39 pm

Take the master link off, an attach two pieces of wire to the chain to keep it from getting lost. There is a small"O" stamped in the cam sprocket, it points up with the crank at TDC.
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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by fatboy98 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:29 pm

Well i got it apart. the piston on the weak side looks like it had a little grief at one time.It looks like someone had to smooth out the area where the rings go. It does not look to bad though.another thing i found was that the piston on the weak side also had a taller dome on the top than the other one?? So know i am not sure which one is the right one for this bike (67 scrambler) the higher comp. one or the lower?

mike in idaho
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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by mike in idaho » Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:41 pm

The dream engines are lower compression, with lower piston domes.
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LOUD MOUSE
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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by LOUD MOUSE » Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:17 am

They are not.
The piston isn't cut away like the CB/CL piston and the Dome in the same height as the CB/CL piston (put one of each on the same wrist pin and you will see they are the same height) so the piston actually raises the compression when installed in a CB/CL 305 engine.
The lower compression is because the head is deeper and the valves are smaller. ...............lm

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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by fatboy98 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:03 am

Now i am all confused.There is definetly a difference between the two. They both have ART and CB77 on the sides of them.When i set the two side by side on the table there is a height difference.Would one cylinder have more compression than the other then?? I there a difference in comp. between the cb and cl?? Thank you for the help guys.

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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by LOUD MOUSE » Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:30 am

The CB and CL use the same pistons.
The DREAM uses a different piston.
You compare the piston height by placing "a" wrist pin in one of each and then compare the height.
I did that and found the height was the same so I put a CB in one cylinder and a DREAM in the other and used a gauged syringe and each piston was the same height I counted the amount used to get the fluid to the top level.
The CB too more fluid than the DREAM.
I then measured the CB head fluid against the DREAM head and the DREAM took a LOT more fluid.
Why did I do this?
All my HONDA days I heard the DREAM has less compression and EVERYONE
knows it the PISTON!
Well it isn't. ....................lm
...............lm

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Re: Firing on right cylinder only

Post by Tim Miller » Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:04 pm

According to all of Honda's literature, the compression is lower on the Dream motor, even though the dome height is similar, the profile/shape is obviously different.

I agree with Mike in Idaho, and decided it would be best if I did my own test on these two combustion chambers, to determine the precise volume of each. After performing a side-by-side test of a CB/CL 77 and a CA77 chamber, using a burette of course, it turns out that the volume in the CB/CL 77 and CA 77 is virtually the same measuring 31.5 CCs. This is somewhat of a surprise, knowing that the Dream intake valve is slightly smaller.

Tim

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