Recent content by mecbruno

Good news! I quit using the starting fluid and put work on making sure all the parts were fine. First the wiring was a little messy and the starting was moving slow. So I cleaned the ground and the plugs with the battery. I am also using a car battery, which is new. Second, the vacuum line...

Good news. I put new gas on the tank and tried cranking it. I saw that there was something going wrong on the carbs. There was no gas flowing from it. So i took it apart again and checked the needles and floaters, rebuild it and put it on the bike. Tried to crank it again and it fired up on...

So I checked again and the spark plugs comes totally dry after trying to crank it. I can see also that there is fuel being sucked inside the carbs bc I have transparent tubes from the peatcock to the carb and they are full. I rebuilt the carbs, with new needles on both and cleaning with carb...

Thanks for the replies. This engine has a TCI to time the firing of the spark plugs. I don't know if there is a way to check if the TCI is firing at the right time though. I read somewhere that rebuild engines might need a very good battery, some people even try to use a car battery in the...

Hey guys. I have been working on this bike (1982 Virago 750) for a long time now and I haven't been able to run it. I tried everything and I am putting a video here to see if anyone can help me with this sphinx mystery. Things i have done: 1) New pistons and rings (from a 97 VIrago -...

Thanks for the replies! Unfortunately, I am not going to change the rear wheels man. I saw some builds that the owner did that and apparently is extremely difficult to find a hub that fits the rest of the swing arm structure. I decided to spend the money in other stuff like the tires, front...

I am putting a 2002 yamaha r1 front in the bike that i bought on ebay. I did the front swap that i found more feasible. The issue is that the r1 bearing steam is too short and we have to either replace it or increase it. I decided to increase it by cutting it into half, threading the inside of...

Back to Robert again. I decided to keep the virago tank but to raise it from the frame. Therefore I have to make and weld brackets under the tank and on the frame, close the tanks and allocate the new battery under the tank. A lot fabrication to do, but Robert rocked it again.

I bought a seat from Bitwell that i really liked. It is actually a seat for a harley, but i just think it will fit this project perfectly. Then i ran to the welder to fabricate the seat frame. At last we start actually building stuff!! The guy doing the welding work is just amazing. We were...

Also i decided to make the metal parts shiny. So i sandpaper the crankcovers and polished them. Nothing crazy here. Also a before and after pic from the engine. Later i cleaned the carbs and put new kits. Some of the screws were really hard to remove. Damm it was a patience test ...

I spent almost a month cleaning the engine. It looked terrible. I degreased it, cleaned, wheel brushed. Primmed and painted. Now it looks amazingly beautiful. Demanded so much patience but i think it pays off. btw I used engine enamel for all the work and it is trully amazing. Have had some...

Although the bike was not running, I decided to disassemble it and start to work on the cleaning of the bike. I will be doing all the disassembly, cleaning, polishing and then giving a good change of oil and filter on it. The carbs are probably very nasty too, so I will be working on getting...

I just started my cafe racer project. I always wanted to do a project and I saw some pictures from the yamaha virago 750 that I loved. Such a cool bike with a nice size Vtwin. So I started looking for so cheap stuff and found out this bike at craigslist. The bike is a 1982 Virago and it was...