I was planning a 50 mile round trip to my buddies house this morning, to check carb operation. However, it started raining at 5:30 this morning, and dont look like its gonna stop til monday.
So, a good weekend to work on the advancer.
Where she was at...
Where she is currently...
The goal...
First, I find free play in the weights. pull one weight out to its stop and wiggle the opposite weight, then the other. After I found which weight has the most free play I worked on the opposite weight stop. Grinding it down w the dremel, just a little.
keeping in mind everything needs to go back together exactly how it came apart. (especially lobe orientation) Clean thoroughly, grease and reassemble.
Then I re-installed on bike, set point gap on the left, static time, adjust right point to suit. After warming bike up a bit, check it w the strobe light and tweak to perfection.
After like 10 times, on and off the bike, I had both weights hitting the stops at simultaneously, This gave me some advance but not enough.
I dont want to remove anymore off the stops. So now I am working on the weights themselves. I understand by removing material from the weights this can change advancer operation a bit. But, I dont believe it will be a detrimental change, cause its just a little.
I am pretty conservative with dremel just removing a bit at a time, then checking operation on the bike and repeating the whole process...I dont want to go too far and then have to find another advancer and start over.
After like 6 times I have gotten pretty quick at setting up timing. ;D