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Let me start by thanking BassCliff for his awesome web site and all the information he has accumulated there (specially his carb cleaning series!!); Steve for his valve adjustment spreadsheet (which somehow I managed to mess up. Twice)and for telling me that I should dip the carbs overnight (they came aout awesome!!!) ; Ghostgs1 and the Shim Club for making it possible that I could adjust my valves; Nessism for explaining me how to raise the jet needle; and to chef1366 for all the advise regarding carbs and jetting.

Thank you all so much!!!

I RODE MY BIKE TODAY!!!!!!:):):)

It is not perfect (has a spot when I switch to 2nd gear) but this puppy has come a long ways since I bought it. The only time I wasable to drive it before has been only..... 2 feet :o, and then it would die.

I basically put the cabs on, jumped it (have a dead battery still ) It did not start right away but I guess the bowls were still not full. It coughed a couple of times and then it started. Raised a bit the idel let it run for a few and shut it off. Felt the exhausts, and 3 and 4 were cold, while 12 were hot. Pulled the spark plug and it was totally dry. Since it was out, I sprayed a bit of carb cleaner, and crancked it: fired right up, Only thing I did to it was to adjust the idle.

Next thing was the clutch. My clutch had a problem. It would not disengage. I tried adjusting it, and the onlyway it would disengage was to adjust it all the way to a point that it was hard to press the lever. I was not sure if I had some really tough springs. I opened the cluch, and saw that I had some really hevy oil, and looked more like very thick syrup. I took it appart to separate the plates, and put it back together. I tried it (the bike still didn't run at the time) by pushing it with the lever pressed, and could not move it. Finally I eyeballed where the clutch should be adjusted, and put it in first gear, while on the stand
I was very happy to see that I could get it into 1st gear, and the rear wheel did not turn. So, since it still hasn't been transfered to my name, and it has no plates, I just drove it up and down the alley a few times. I have to say, that bike has a lot of power. and when I shifted to 2nd there is a soft spot when I opened the throatle. No worries, I will get to it tomorrow and start figuring it out.

This would have never been possible without all of you. So once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

Nico
 
It was a pleasure. Now you can come over and get this darn car running. ;)
 
Shoot, I forgot to thank Rob Barr for the o rings special !!!
 
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Get it licensed, take it for a 20 minute spin, change the oil. It sounds like it is suffering some prior neglect.

I'd also run some Seafoam in the gas and get your carbs synced

Good work!

It's like watching your kids graduate.

And post a picture
 
Big T, if I told you what those cabs were like when I opened them you would not believe it: Pilots with air screw o rings :confused: and air screw with out it, air screw broken and the tip so embeded that after trying everything I had to drill the body itself to get that tip out!!! and that is just the beggining. What ever you can think off those carbs had it :eek: !!!!!

All I have to do now is to fine tune the carbs (even rode it without adjusting air/ fuel mixture to max idle :-$) figure out if it is the needle jet hight (had no washers what so ever so strted with 2 and will check soon with 3) and then yes get it licensed. the rest is all done.

Steve, actually I was going to ask you for another one (Nahhh :0) Thank you so much!!!! I want to see tomorrow how it starts, but hope that it will fire up right away :0)
 
cruz del sur said:
Let me start by thanking BassCliff for his awesome web site and all the information he has accumulated there (specially his carb cleaning series!!)
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Thank you for your kind words, Mr. cruz del sur. But just to be clear, I am merely hosting copies of the carb cleaning series from this site that were created by John Bloemer and Paul Musser, along with information collected from other contributors. I'm glad you find my site useful. Please feel free to offer suggestions.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Mr Cliff. even if it is"just" a compilation of other people's work, you took the time to put it together in one place where most of us can rush and save tons of time (and lots of cash too) I know that the work and time you put into it helped me tremendously.

The thank you is still valid :0)
 
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