Alright lets try this again. I had a big write up about what I did so far today and hit post and it disappeared into cyber space. Maybe the Mars rover knows where it went.
This is my first bike. I spent about a month looking for something that would be in my price range, that was running and had a clean title. I picked it up for a dollar a cc. with the addition of some gaskets, a Clymer manual, the original owners manual, a new chain. It has a 4 month old front tire and battery.
First things first. I know that there is a new clutch cable that was installed. But the clutch doesn't engage until the lever is nearly fully released. I think that this should be a fairly simple fix, I just need to look it up or get some suggestions to how to get the clutch to start engaging slowing instead of suddenly right at the end of the release.
Second in order to get the bike to start and continue to run the choke has to be pulled all the way out. This leads me to believe that there is an air to gas ratio issue with the carbs. So I know that they need to come off and get cleaned out.
Today I decided that I wanted to see how it would ride so started it up and ran it up 2 streets from my house. It coughed along a little and pretty much dogged its way there. When I got ready to turn around it stalled and I couldn't get it to kick back over. So I pushed it back to the top of the hill and got it rolling and popped the clutch. It ran but stalled again before getting back to my driveway so I pushed it the rest of the way.
I pulled off the air boxes. To check the filters out. The right hand air box is cracked on the bottom. I don't know if fixing it with jb weld will be enough to seal it back up, or if I should just use that as an excuse to get pods. Also, I don't know if the filters are supposed to oily, but these definitely are oiled. Is this just to help trap particulates?
Took off my tank and then the carbs. The carb joints to the engine have some external cracking and they where missing the gaskets. Instead there was a orange silicon or caulk of some type sealing them to the engine. The left joints vacuum port was taped closed with electrical tape. These two things made me wonder if the choke is needing to be pulled all the way out to compensate for a lost of vacuum seal. I will be replacing them and just need to take the carbs apart and clean them to make sure that I won't need to add anything else to that order.
Only other thing I did today was I removed the crash bar from the front. Looks like she was blue at one point. She might get there again. paint schemes are the least of my worries at the moment.
phil
This is my first bike. I spent about a month looking for something that would be in my price range, that was running and had a clean title. I picked it up for a dollar a cc. with the addition of some gaskets, a Clymer manual, the original owners manual, a new chain. It has a 4 month old front tire and battery.
First things first. I know that there is a new clutch cable that was installed. But the clutch doesn't engage until the lever is nearly fully released. I think that this should be a fairly simple fix, I just need to look it up or get some suggestions to how to get the clutch to start engaging slowing instead of suddenly right at the end of the release.
Second in order to get the bike to start and continue to run the choke has to be pulled all the way out. This leads me to believe that there is an air to gas ratio issue with the carbs. So I know that they need to come off and get cleaned out.
Today I decided that I wanted to see how it would ride so started it up and ran it up 2 streets from my house. It coughed along a little and pretty much dogged its way there. When I got ready to turn around it stalled and I couldn't get it to kick back over. So I pushed it back to the top of the hill and got it rolling and popped the clutch. It ran but stalled again before getting back to my driveway so I pushed it the rest of the way.
I pulled off the air boxes. To check the filters out. The right hand air box is cracked on the bottom. I don't know if fixing it with jb weld will be enough to seal it back up, or if I should just use that as an excuse to get pods. Also, I don't know if the filters are supposed to oily, but these definitely are oiled. Is this just to help trap particulates?
Took off my tank and then the carbs. The carb joints to the engine have some external cracking and they where missing the gaskets. Instead there was a orange silicon or caulk of some type sealing them to the engine. The left joints vacuum port was taped closed with electrical tape. These two things made me wonder if the choke is needing to be pulled all the way out to compensate for a lost of vacuum seal. I will be replacing them and just need to take the carbs apart and clean them to make sure that I won't need to add anything else to that order.
Only other thing I did today was I removed the crash bar from the front. Looks like she was blue at one point. She might get there again. paint schemes are the least of my worries at the moment.
phil
