Ok, scratch that shaft radius idea. I'll add some material to the top portion of the button where the shaft is at, and instead of making a...
gosh sorry for the slow response slow... found a rubber chicken and just haven't been the same. Yes I intend to make a button that will FUNCTION...
Invisible, Try this. I looked it up where I usually buy our tooling. MSC Industrial supply. Individual searching may require some patience and...
Same issue with my bike. The headlight went out and the start button felt funny, so I parked her for the winter. Yesterday I took it apart and...
Thanks Matt. By the way, do you keep it at 7k in general or just around the twisties? After my couple of rides I felt that around 4k was cruise rpm.
Ok, went for another ride yesterday. No smoke at all. NONE! I am perplexed cuz all I did was clean the plugs. All 4 are now uniform in color....
yanked the plugs yesterday. Some good news! #2,3,4 were nice. light brown color with black rim, #1 was oil fouled. Does the valve seals swell up...
Thanks j! got a new tank today. NO LEAKS! excellent deal too. Replaced the pilot idle screw o rings as well. still starts hard. full on choke, had...
ooooooo!!!!!!!! Send me an e-mail, I'm interested! mecrutio30@yahoo.com Let's talk.
Yes. Thank you, I need a slap on the wrist. But it has been 3 or 4 years scince I rode, it wasn't raining, and I had the tape :)
Update: Went for the maiden voyage yesterday. It was a success! Started with full choke (barely) any throttle and she died. Started again and...
Ok, lets look at another option.... what are the chances of finding a different tank having the same issue? I was thinking of looking on e-bay and...
Thanks again! I know that is what I need to do. I'll try to take some pics to show the damage. I may not be so lucky as I have rust spots above in...
Anyone have a link to patching a leaky gas tank? Rust holes on the outside are leakin thru. I was thinking of permatex but I also heard of Bondo....
yup that was it exactly! I was afraid to tap it out cuz of lack of meat.
Not enuf room to tap the case. just drilled it out .165 ish and put in 2 6-32 screws with nuts. Gotta grind the one side of the nuts to fit....
Checked the No. 1 plug today. It is dark tan to light brown ish. Clean, no gunk and definitly no black stuff. I don't know but is that a little...
Ok, thats a bit much, but oh well, just gotta wait. What I'll do is fix the petcock or replace it.
The DIY manometer is junk. completely junk. what a waste. The RPM Guage i used was garbage too. So I just set the pilots out 2 and a half like the...
Thanks! Everything checked out like you posted. the pilot jets were clean everything was clean on second look. The float level was wrong. I...
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