Great info, thank you. The bike has not had valve clearances checked nor has it had a compression test performed. I will read through that PDF...
You're absolutely on point. Oil filler smells like gasoline. I just did 1000 miles on this bike in the last two weekends, no issues besides a...
Okay, curiosity got the best of me. I went outside and untucked all the cables, and she fired right up. Choke worked fine, throttle worked fine,...
you might be onto something, i went from stock bars to clubmans which are much narrower and leave far more slack. I'm going to mess with my cable...
I haven't, but I'm not looking forward to draining the tank AGAIN. I will if i have to but... for the sake of discussion let's assume the...
you know, now that i think about it, the bike rides very similarly to the way my 83 seca 750 ran when it had a vacuum leak. does anybody have...
In prime, it's dumping fuel. In on or reserve, it's a slow drip. Not ideal, but before the rebuild it was spraying fuel out the side so it's an...
I think I got the hoses on correctly... smaller hose on upper petcock nipple to airbox, larger hose on lower petcock nipple to carb. I...
Today I replaced my rear wheel, rebuilt the petcock, and installed new handlebars. Somewhere between those modifications (i'm guessing the wheel...
and yes, you have to wait like 2 minutes to download it, but it's free, so whatever.
great thank you again! I found the Haynes Service/Shop Manual for this bike (I'm sure most of you already found it... but here's a link to the one...
problem solved guys, the issues were: the inner boots were swapped with where the outter boots were (ie, i had to move the inners to the ouside...
oh wow... i guess i was thinking too technically :) thanks for the information it's very helpful!
Thanks for the great run-down. I understand all of it except for when you say "wrap a sheet of sandpaper around a 5" section of closet rod."...
