Bons
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Re: CB200 '73 tracker project
hey all!
this time not an update but a cry for help.
I have been driving my bike for a week now, fluctuating in how well it worked. We needed to adjust some things here and there, but it worked. but today I was driving home and it took me a lot of effort to keep the engine running while waiting for the red light. As a said, this week it worked.
Yesterday, we tried to make it run better, since we added the new podfilters, by adding the rough side of a kitchen sponge to the pods. (those which come in all kinds of colours, with a soft side and a thinner rough green side). Ofcourse, i made a 'fence' to prevent it ending up in my engine.
Worked like a charm, not holding back anymore at high RPM, so it seemed perfect. Very happy girl at that time.
Another thing we adjusted yesterday was the headlight highbeam function. Since the light has no 'off', and the lamp that i'm currently using uses to much power, the battery was not loading at all. As a result, we have to start it by running and it's a lot easier with the light off. Unplugged the high-beam cable so we could turn the light off. Everything worked fine and we drove home.
Now, this morning we wanted to ride to the workshop and it wasn't running well at all. The end of the day i drove home and after about 200 meters, engine stopped. So i turned it on again, drove a few miles and had a very hard time keeping the engine running, as soon as i let go of the gas, the engine almost fails, and when i had to stop for a red light, it even turned off.
After bert showed up, he got it running, maybe something had cooled down a bit? But when he drove my bike again this evening, about an hour later, same thing happened, and each time after a shorter period. Hard to keep the engine running, terrible (no) idle, and finally a quick death.
Checked the pods, everything fine and it didn't make any difference whether we'd use them with the extra foam or not.
Battery is new, but when removing the battery, it works only with all the lights on and using the horn. Otherwise it just dies. Very weird?????
So, my battery is new, my regulator/rectifier is new, new coil is used, anyone any idea what i'm doing wrong? Must be something in the electric system but we must be missing something.
A mystery to me cause everthing seemed to be ok, and suddenly everything seems to fail on the bike right now :'(
We suspect the regulator must be ok since the headlight doesn't pop anymore, and the rectifier part must be ok as well since the horn is working too...
And no, i did not forget to get some fuel or open the fuel tap this time
Thanks for reading my long story, hope one of you guys can give me some directions!
Goodnight for now
Jene
hey all!
this time not an update but a cry for help.
I have been driving my bike for a week now, fluctuating in how well it worked. We needed to adjust some things here and there, but it worked. but today I was driving home and it took me a lot of effort to keep the engine running while waiting for the red light. As a said, this week it worked.
Yesterday, we tried to make it run better, since we added the new podfilters, by adding the rough side of a kitchen sponge to the pods. (those which come in all kinds of colours, with a soft side and a thinner rough green side). Ofcourse, i made a 'fence' to prevent it ending up in my engine.
Worked like a charm, not holding back anymore at high RPM, so it seemed perfect. Very happy girl at that time.
Another thing we adjusted yesterday was the headlight highbeam function. Since the light has no 'off', and the lamp that i'm currently using uses to much power, the battery was not loading at all. As a result, we have to start it by running and it's a lot easier with the light off. Unplugged the high-beam cable so we could turn the light off. Everything worked fine and we drove home.
Now, this morning we wanted to ride to the workshop and it wasn't running well at all. The end of the day i drove home and after about 200 meters, engine stopped. So i turned it on again, drove a few miles and had a very hard time keeping the engine running, as soon as i let go of the gas, the engine almost fails, and when i had to stop for a red light, it even turned off.
After bert showed up, he got it running, maybe something had cooled down a bit? But when he drove my bike again this evening, about an hour later, same thing happened, and each time after a shorter period. Hard to keep the engine running, terrible (no) idle, and finally a quick death.
Checked the pods, everything fine and it didn't make any difference whether we'd use them with the extra foam or not.
Battery is new, but when removing the battery, it works only with all the lights on and using the horn. Otherwise it just dies. Very weird?????
So, my battery is new, my regulator/rectifier is new, new coil is used, anyone any idea what i'm doing wrong? Must be something in the electric system but we must be missing something.
A mystery to me cause everthing seemed to be ok, and suddenly everything seems to fail on the bike right now :'( We suspect the regulator must be ok since the headlight doesn't pop anymore, and the rectifier part must be ok as well since the horn is working too...
And no, i did not forget to get some fuel or open the fuel tap this time
Thanks for reading my long story, hope one of you guys can give me some directions!
Goodnight for now
Jene
