New bike and a strange noise

[salty_monk]

It will drag if the clutch cable is too loose... not too tight. Check the play at the lever. You should get a 1.5mm gap before it starts to pull the clutch.

If you just changed the oil, what did you put in there? 20w50 always drags a bit especially when cold. Even 10w40 will drag a little bit.

Dan

[PhantomBGD]

Different strokes for different folks. I guess if I had that guy's bike, & it was all I had to get around on, I would ride it. but only till I could afford to get something I wouldn't be embarrased to be seen on. Like they say, to each his own. Good luck

Haha, that guy (on the bike) doesnt look like he embarasses easily.

[Talon]

haha, i don't embarrass easily either, I have the most furious mullet and handlebar moustash ever right now and love it...

anyway i'm still keeping this thread alive with my progress on this bike. So i bought that other 750 for like $250 which will be alot of work if i want to get it running but could be a fun project, anyway it came with some stock pipes which on further inspection were actually rusted out and they're on that bike still, and it also came with a 4 into 1 exhaust that he claimed fit that bike.

so i took off the stock pipes from my 1100 and went to go grab another set of pipes from the 750 which is at my buddies house a couple of blocks away, which is when i found that the pretty and shiny stock pipes on that bike are rusted through. so i grabbed the 4 into 1 pipe that was there and brought it home and attempted to put it on my bike...

so i wanted to steal the stock pipes because i knew the 4 into 1s had some work to be done to them, they need a tab welded back onto the back of them to mount to the bike and such.

anyway i got around to trying to mount them and this is what i ended up with. I'm holding the rear of the pipe up with some cable currently, which i'm not super concerned about, but the headers have some crappy mounting system that doesn't really work and the pipes don't make a seal with the exhaust ports of the engine.



so should i look for a 4 into 1 header that would fit well and cut/weld the can from the pipe i currently have onto it?
or should i patch up then wrap the stock pipes i took off of my bike in the first place?


man i really need to hit the engine with some engine degreaser...

[Steve]

... as i was putting it all back together i kinda mixed up the spark plug wires so the ones on the right (while on the bike) might be switched around. the ones on the left should be correct because they're actually labeled 1 and 2. so how do you tell which plug leads are supposed to go where?

It appears that nobody has answered this question for you, so I will. 8-[

It is good that you have at least one plug wire that is labeled. If you look up under the gas tank, you will see that there are two coils, each of them has two spark plug wires coming out of it. Follow the wire from plug #1 to its coil. The other wire from that coil should go to #4. The other coil should be connected to #2 & #3. Some time when you have the tank off, label the coils so you do not mix them up in the future.


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