These carbs look fine right?

or should I have gone with black RVT?

 

I'm reading to much. just saw somewhere , that the rtv goes on the shell under the gasket and you use a light oil on the top to help with the fit on carb body.

should have gone with the black for the astetics

or the flew seal that comes in clear or silver

 

if you do it right you should not need anything
a cardboard cereal box gasket before this monstrosity than anything

 

cereal box with Indian shelacc gasket sealer

 

It appears that those bowls have a recess cut into the top face, meaning they accept an o-ring..........

God that is just horrible/miserable looking.

 

It looks like that PO guy has been busy again.

 

that's what you do when you loose the screws, just glue them on

 

tie wraps

 

now that right there is funny!

 

They look messier than the cake icing after my four year old's birthday party. Maybe you should ask my mother-in-law to clean up after the PO!

 

Unfortunately a lot of people do stuff like that. Here is another good example of idiotism I bought an old beat up seca 750 the headlight bucket broke so he took it off just used the fog lamp. He mounted the horns to the headlamp ears painted them gold along with the air box ends and plastic around the mirror and to top it off the factory brown outline around the numbers and between the gauges in the atari he painted gold also. Main reason i bought the bike the motor runs great with no noises. They are beautiful don't you think

 

Customized his bike--- tried to make a "Half-'(p)ast' Midnight Seca 750"

Dave

 

Is that a hand painted "81" on the side cover? We need more pics! I wanna see the gory details! I think I'm gonna start a thread dedicated to the dreaded "Previous Owner".

 

When I first got my Maxim it would easily bump start but I couldn't get the starter to respond. My first thought was starter relay, looked more closely at the battery cables and realized the positive cable had been replaced with a cable that was much thicker, probably from a lawn mower.

The hole in the lawn mower cable was too large for the small post on the relay and apparently the person working on my bike must have been fresh out of washers. So the genius drills holes in two pennies, one for each side of the relay, and uses them as washers which did the trick of securing the cables.

What said genius failed to realize was the pennies were overlapping each other and touching which I assumed is why the starter was burned up and required a full rebuild.

Your results may vary.

 

We need a PO Hall of Fame for examples such as this..........

 

Or the battery clamp on a truck I got one time that had a dirty terminal and instead of cleaning the terminal, the PO had sunk a screw straight down into the joint to creat contact between said terminal and battery cable end.

Or the cable in my tractor that didnt even have a clamp on the battery cable.... The frayed ende of the cable is held to to battery via a large vise-grip clamp....

 

Garden tractor. Running but would not move when in gear. Engine installed backwards (horizontal crankshaft) and not hooked to the transmission. I kid you not.

 

Lol. I refer back to my other forum post regarding my first sled -- long story short,I got the sled cheap... It would run but not move. Paid for it, then proceeded to unstick the skis from the ice they were frozen to, and proceeded to ride up onto the truck.