Ok, fellas. I know this is easy for you OG gear heads. This is my first bike and I'm doing my best to get this thing running as nice as possible and learn as much as I can in the process.
When I got the bike it was idling extremely high. Like 5k. It was ugly. I rode it home anyways and tore apart the carbs and cleaned the living shit out of them and replaced all gaskets and needles that came with my rebuild kit.
Fired it up and it no longer idled extremely high. (could have been a product of reseating all the adjustment screws) However it wouldn't idle for long. I could get it to fire up and run nicely at 2k (high still I know) however not for very long, eventually the idle would drop and it would stall out. You had to keep on the throttle to keep it from stalling. But while it was running it sounded like it was running pretty strong. I even took it for a rip around the parking garage. It seemed to be ok, yet it would still want to stall while idling.
I started to do some searching and it sounded like it was the valve clearance was off. So I went down today and gave it the old college try after reading through a couple different manuals. (the honda one and a Clymer one). I got everything off and was a little confused as to what I was supposed to be measuring with my newly purchased feeler gauge. I did some more reading and studied the pictures for seemingly way too long and I think I figured it out. Though once I put it back together I'm not sure if I was right.
I'll attatch a picture with what I was measuring.
This picture was taken pre-adjustment. Now at first I figured I was measuring the gap between the rocker and the valve but I quickly realised that was wrong. It's between the valve stem and the adjusting screw.
So what I want to do is lower the screw until the screw is .05mm away from touching the bottom of the valve stem? Is that correct?
If that is correct can someone explain it to me like I'm five what a bigger gap does and what a smaller gap does? Should I also make sure to adjust my cam chain tension before doing this?
Also another quick question. How I can be certain which valve to adjust when I get the generator rotor line the T up to the index mark. Whichever one is lower? It says closed but how can I tell if it's closed? In the picture was the one I figured was closed. Can you tell from the pic or no? What should I be looking for?
Sorry. That was a lot of words and questions. But I'm a newb with a willingness to learn and asking questions to people that know more than me helps.
Thanks.
When I got the bike it was idling extremely high. Like 5k. It was ugly. I rode it home anyways and tore apart the carbs and cleaned the living shit out of them and replaced all gaskets and needles that came with my rebuild kit.
Fired it up and it no longer idled extremely high. (could have been a product of reseating all the adjustment screws) However it wouldn't idle for long. I could get it to fire up and run nicely at 2k (high still I know) however not for very long, eventually the idle would drop and it would stall out. You had to keep on the throttle to keep it from stalling. But while it was running it sounded like it was running pretty strong. I even took it for a rip around the parking garage. It seemed to be ok, yet it would still want to stall while idling.
I started to do some searching and it sounded like it was the valve clearance was off. So I went down today and gave it the old college try after reading through a couple different manuals. (the honda one and a Clymer one). I got everything off and was a little confused as to what I was supposed to be measuring with my newly purchased feeler gauge. I did some more reading and studied the pictures for seemingly way too long and I think I figured it out. Though once I put it back together I'm not sure if I was right.
I'll attatch a picture with what I was measuring.
This picture was taken pre-adjustment. Now at first I figured I was measuring the gap between the rocker and the valve but I quickly realised that was wrong. It's between the valve stem and the adjusting screw.
So what I want to do is lower the screw until the screw is .05mm away from touching the bottom of the valve stem? Is that correct?
If that is correct can someone explain it to me like I'm five what a bigger gap does and what a smaller gap does? Should I also make sure to adjust my cam chain tension before doing this?
Also another quick question. How I can be certain which valve to adjust when I get the generator rotor line the T up to the index mark. Whichever one is lower? It says closed but how can I tell if it's closed? In the picture was the one I figured was closed. Can you tell from the pic or no? What should I be looking for?
Sorry. That was a lot of words and questions. But I'm a newb with a willingness to learn and asking questions to people that know more than me helps.
Thanks.