A journey through a hanging idle.

Hello friends!

Haven't had a chance to work on the bike due to traveling and the holidays, and I figured I would just strip everything and start painting/taking care of cosmetic issues over the winter. But alas! It's december 10th and it looks like there's riding/wrenching weather for the rest of the week/weekend.

Yesterday I attempted to start the bike for the first time in three weeks (battery's been on a tender).

Normally this thing starts the first time every single time, but with the cold weather and long sit time, it took a bit. There was lots of popping and a few flames coming out of the exhaust, but it did indeed start up.

Carbs must be out of sync because cylinder 2 and 4 took longer to heat up than one and 3.

Anyway, today I will be getting the bike warm and syncing, colortuning!

Here's to some success. Stay tuned.

 

I'd like to get back to this very quickly.

Sadly, I stripped one of the mixture screws and it is completely stuck in carb three. Any suggestions folks?

 

some valve lapping compound will give you some grip to possibly back it out. get it at NAPA , Autozone etc it is gritty works great ...we use it on Aircraft all the time for stripped screw heads.

 

Supergluing the tip of the screwdriver to the screw head works too. Make sure that both are clean.

 

Good suggestions... if all else fails, I've had success with the Easy Out (or Grabit?) bit to extract the screw. You'll need to replace it at this point anyway. My #2 wouldn't come out and while trying to persuade it, I snapped the head.

After I got it out with the extractor, the threads were a bit buggered so I purchased a tap to clean up the threads in the body.

Chacal has everything you need. Tap, new pilot assembly (Screw, Spring, washer, o-ring). Works "Like butter!" now...

 

Get in contact with listmember " mirco ". He does fantastic fine metal machining. Let him know I sent you....

His name is Joe.

mirandamachining@gmail.com

Dave Fox

 

I might have a spare #3 I'll check after work

 

this got complicated. i have a 1 or 4 (didn't bother to check) with good float pillars, and a center body (2 or 3) with a dovetail repaired pillar. I think the 2 and 3 bodies are interchangeable.
i'm going to check it out farther just to be sure all is right. It's yours if you want it

 

All 4 carb bodies are different on the HSC33 series (due to the "sideness" of the overflow vent passage), and, the 1985 versions are different from the 1986 versions. And just for gits & shiggles, the #2 carb body is different on the California models than it is on the 49-state models. So there is actually 10 different unique HSC33 carb bodies!

On the more common HSC32 series carbs, the #2 and #3 bodies are the same, although they came in both ultra-fine and coarse threaded (mixture screw) versions..........

 

Thanks for all the replys folks. The reason it stripped out is because (I think) it may have been cross threaded in there, making it difficult to turn out in the first place when I used my colortune. At the moment, the bike runs great, and the color tune has me about where I want to be on all cylinders, so I don't NEED to mess with it, but it's irking me that I can't fine tune it if/when it is needed.

I probably won't do much until later this summer when I break the bike down to paint the frame/motor but would like to have a game plan beforehand.

Also, thanks for the offer Polock! Looks like I'm SOL.