johnny gaijin
Been Around the Block
Re: Lazarus - 1975 Cl360
so i checked the timing and it was a little bit off. adjusted it as well as i could (i think i did a good job but it's my first time doing it so i can't guarantee my work) and still she only ran on one cylinder.
so i took the carbs out of both bikes and opened up the float bowl on the CL carb on the side that wasn't running. everything looked good in there so i kind of assumed it wasn't a carb problem.
so i swap carbs on the two bikes to double check (having 2 of the same bike is pretty freakin' awesome). first i put the CL carbs (lazarus) into the CB.
i guess at this point i need to mention that the CB runs well but only idles on one cylinder.
i fire up the cb and it's only idling on one cylinder but both of them are getting hot when i rev the engine so they're both working to some degree or another. so at this point i assume that the CB only idling on one cylinder is not a carb issue like i thought it was.
then i put the CB carb into lazarus. she fires up, idles on one cylinder but runs on both.
so i guess the CB carb is causing idling on one cylinder
and the CL carb even though it appeared to more or less run on both cylinders must be why lazarus wasn't running correctly and it's some kind of weird fluke that both cylinder were getting hot on the CB.
sheesh.
so i guess i'll be ordering some jets to replace the handmade ones and see if that fixes anything. for now i'm happy with one running bike, even if it only idles on one cylinder.
here's some pics of the tail light:
it's a little crooked but the turn signals are REALLY crooked so until i get new ones i'm not gonna worry about it
from the side you can see that i really need to cut the crossbar down to make it look good.
and here's a pic of the bike, it's got the CB tank on there because it doesn't have a crossover cable and makes working with it a lot easier than the other one.
the black tank does look good though, even though the PO did a really crummy rattlecan job on it.
someday i'd like to paint the frame and have it end up looking something like this:
apologies to mysta2!
so i checked the timing and it was a little bit off. adjusted it as well as i could (i think i did a good job but it's my first time doing it so i can't guarantee my work) and still she only ran on one cylinder.
so i took the carbs out of both bikes and opened up the float bowl on the CL carb on the side that wasn't running. everything looked good in there so i kind of assumed it wasn't a carb problem.
so i swap carbs on the two bikes to double check (having 2 of the same bike is pretty freakin' awesome). first i put the CL carbs (lazarus) into the CB.
i guess at this point i need to mention that the CB runs well but only idles on one cylinder.
i fire up the cb and it's only idling on one cylinder but both of them are getting hot when i rev the engine so they're both working to some degree or another. so at this point i assume that the CB only idling on one cylinder is not a carb issue like i thought it was.
then i put the CB carb into lazarus. she fires up, idles on one cylinder but runs on both.
so i guess the CB carb is causing idling on one cylinder
and the CL carb even though it appeared to more or less run on both cylinders must be why lazarus wasn't running correctly and it's some kind of weird fluke that both cylinder were getting hot on the CB.
sheesh.
so i guess i'll be ordering some jets to replace the handmade ones and see if that fixes anything. for now i'm happy with one running bike, even if it only idles on one cylinder.
here's some pics of the tail light:
it's a little crooked but the turn signals are REALLY crooked so until i get new ones i'm not gonna worry about it
from the side you can see that i really need to cut the crossbar down to make it look good.
and here's a pic of the bike, it's got the CB tank on there because it doesn't have a crossover cable and makes working with it a lot easier than the other one.
the black tank does look good though, even though the PO did a really crummy rattlecan job on it.
someday i'd like to paint the frame and have it end up looking something like this:
apologies to mysta2!