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Why we shouldn't take shortcuts
So there we are electricals done. So we spend some time trying to get the carb bowls off without, trying take off the carbs realize its not going to happen so we take off the carbs. Reset the floats, put em back on and apply the gas. No overflow after letting it sit for 15 minutes on prime. Yay the floats are working again, and she is cranking without the choke and idles beautifully and when you rev her up to about 6k it is smooth all the way up and all the way down. Now I know i had set the floats before installing but I must have messed up the math conversion or something because I was useing a standard Depth Michrometer and had to convert the right setting from metric. But that problem is solved. We snaked the chain in from the back of the gear box over the sprocket and back in so we would not have to remove the foot peg gear shifter and side cover to access the sprocet. Hook up the chain cut off the extral links, peen over the rivets on the master link. Life is good to go. We put it in gear to make sure the wheel is turning straight and are preparing to take her off the stand for her first test run. Clunk clunk growl growl. What is that noise. trying to figure that out when Oil comes gushing out from under sprocket cover. Kill the bike. Remove foot peg, remove gear shifter, open sprocket cover. When we snaked the chain through we forgot about the clutch rod. The chain had managed to go out past the sprocket before it curled back and so it was around the clutch shaft and the sprocket. Looking from the back of the sprocket cover this could not be seen. It is now good and bent. Only good news out of this is the seal was not damged just got pulled down a little with the bend in the rod and when we put a little oil back to make up for the spill and ran the engine with the clutch rod out a bit no leaks. All this minutes before the test ride. Lesson to all you kiddies out there don't take short cuts. I think I have a plan for straightening out the rod. Anyway I will post videos of her running and the bent rod this evening when I get home.
Paul
So there we are electricals done. So we spend some time trying to get the carb bowls off without, trying take off the carbs realize its not going to happen so we take off the carbs. Reset the floats, put em back on and apply the gas. No overflow after letting it sit for 15 minutes on prime. Yay the floats are working again, and she is cranking without the choke and idles beautifully and when you rev her up to about 6k it is smooth all the way up and all the way down. Now I know i had set the floats before installing but I must have messed up the math conversion or something because I was useing a standard Depth Michrometer and had to convert the right setting from metric. But that problem is solved. We snaked the chain in from the back of the gear box over the sprocket and back in so we would not have to remove the foot peg gear shifter and side cover to access the sprocet. Hook up the chain cut off the extral links, peen over the rivets on the master link. Life is good to go. We put it in gear to make sure the wheel is turning straight and are preparing to take her off the stand for her first test run. Clunk clunk growl growl. What is that noise. trying to figure that out when Oil comes gushing out from under sprocket cover. Kill the bike. Remove foot peg, remove gear shifter, open sprocket cover. When we snaked the chain through we forgot about the clutch rod. The chain had managed to go out past the sprocket before it curled back and so it was around the clutch shaft and the sprocket. Looking from the back of the sprocket cover this could not be seen. It is now good and bent. Only good news out of this is the seal was not damged just got pulled down a little with the bend in the rod and when we put a little oil back to make up for the spill and ran the engine with the clutch rod out a bit no leaks. All this minutes before the test ride. Lesson to all you kiddies out there don't take short cuts. I think I have a plan for straightening out the rod. Anyway I will post videos of her running and the bent rod this evening when I get home.
Paul
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