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almost to baseline...
Yesterday I hung out with a fellow GSR member duaneage and got some more work done. It is so much easier when someone has tools and spare little parts the you end up needing while you're doing the work... makes it almost fun to work on this thing. here is what we did.
used vice grips to get the intake boots off. The o-ring in there were brittle enough that they fell apart when you applied any pressure to them.
Cleaned the boots (though best practice would have been to replace them, I just don't have the $100 right now to drop) and reinstalled them with the new orings and hex-cap bolts ($10 I bought extras) with a little anti-seize on them. So when I do replace the boots it should be an easy adventure.
added some weather stripping to the air filter box. Also, added a couple bolts that had just not been there before.
Finally synced the carbs properly. And this was our "duh" moment because it took a minute to figure out why #2 was off... yea, we didn't plug the vacuum hose.
after that my biggest issue-the idle hanging-went away. We went for a quick test run around the neighborhood, but there was still a problem. Throttle response was great, but I still wasn't getting power. duaneage tweaked the air/fuel mix screws (I believe backing them out another full turn, they were only 1 1/2 out previously).
Though there is still some small issues, the ride home yesterday was simply the best ride I've ever had on this bike.
Things to still do.
Compression test - no real need to do this, just want to know
clutch cable/ screw assembly - waiting on the part that holds the cable to the assembly should be here tuesday
Horn - need to fix the horn button... found a guy on here that makes the button, may be able to rig the rest from radio shack parts...
everything else in my previous post has been done as well.
Yesterday I hung out with a fellow GSR member duaneage and got some more work done. It is so much easier when someone has tools and spare little parts the you end up needing while you're doing the work... makes it almost fun to work on this thing. here is what we did.
used vice grips to get the intake boots off. The o-ring in there were brittle enough that they fell apart when you applied any pressure to them.
Cleaned the boots (though best practice would have been to replace them, I just don't have the $100 right now to drop) and reinstalled them with the new orings and hex-cap bolts ($10 I bought extras) with a little anti-seize on them. So when I do replace the boots it should be an easy adventure.
added some weather stripping to the air filter box. Also, added a couple bolts that had just not been there before.
Finally synced the carbs properly. And this was our "duh" moment because it took a minute to figure out why #2 was off... yea, we didn't plug the vacuum hose.
after that my biggest issue-the idle hanging-went away. We went for a quick test run around the neighborhood, but there was still a problem. Throttle response was great, but I still wasn't getting power. duaneage tweaked the air/fuel mix screws (I believe backing them out another full turn, they were only 1 1/2 out previously).
Though there is still some small issues, the ride home yesterday was simply the best ride I've ever had on this bike.
Things to still do.
Compression test - no real need to do this, just want to know
clutch cable/ screw assembly - waiting on the part that holds the cable to the assembly should be here tuesday
Horn - need to fix the horn button... found a guy on here that makes the button, may be able to rig the rest from radio shack parts...
everything else in my previous post has been done as well.
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