The Koolaid Project

Cool, I know Barzu was planning on that too, plus a 6 inch stretch. I would love to see it. Apologies for the rant.

 

-just sayin', you're going MORE than the extra mile cutting out the shafie swingarm and making your own...

 

you call that a rant? hahahaha.....try harder

6" stretch would be nice, but I think I'm sticking with stock on this one to keep it easier.... actually.... the more I think about it the more I'm thinking of maybe keeping this one on shocks. I could always turn the '81 cb900f into the hardtail. That will let me get this one up and running a lot quicker and then to take my time and just fool around with the cb slowly. huh.....that might work.

 

Well Iguess each individual knows their own limits as to what they can do.

 

Then again..... after looking at this build and a few others maybe I WOULD just go the easy route....

http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic ... art=0.html

That is probably my favorite looking XJ. I would make a few changes, but it is REALLY clean looking.

 

Alright guys.... There might be some work done on the XJ in the next few days if I can get the garage cleaned out and organized a bit tonight. The wife is going to be out of town until Friday evening, so I may move the XJ out from behind the shed and into the garage

I got the seat that I am going to be using on it the other day and it looks great. I should be getting the king sporty tank that I MIGHT use on it in a few days as well.

First things first though... I need to clean out the garage and get it in there. After that I'll pull the carbs again, rebuild them, and see if I can get it running right. I'll post up pics of the tank and seat sitting on there.

Oh, and the 10" shocks should be here tomorrow as well.

I don't think I'm going to hardtail it anymore. I might save that project for the '81 cb900f instead. I'll be asking advice and opinions in a bit, so stay tuned.

 

+1
I couldn't have said it any better.

 

I'm not hardtailing it anymore. I think I'm reserving that project for the cb900f project. I'm also thinking the king sporty tank will go with that project as well. I got it today and I'm just not feeling it on the XJ. I'll make the final decision after I strip all the bulky crap off of it, mount the new seat, lower it with the 10" shocks, and decide on some different bars.... THEN I'll revisit the possibility of the sporty tank.

I got the tank about 2 hours ago. The XJ has been drug out from behind the shed and is on the back patio now I'm still waiting on the shocks that should get here sometime today though.

 

Ok, so today I slapped the carbs back in along with the battery and hooked the bike up to the aux tank. It fired up first try with full choke and then died. I fired it up again and was able to keep it running for about 15-20 seconds with some throttle. Then it fired up a few more times, but I couldn't keep it running and then nothing.

I wish someone was around here that could give me a hand. This is frustrating. The wife gets pissed when I fool around with bikes instead of doing other shit, so with that annoyance and the stress of just wanting the f'n thing to run, so I can start doing the fun stuff and modifying it..... ggggrrrrr f***! any advice?

 

Will it start without the choke? Maybe you're flooding it? Is the battery dead now?

 

I don't think I messed with it long enough to kill the battery. I didn't check it yet. I'm trying to get the place cleaned up before the wife gets home after being gone a few days.

I'll throw it on the trickle charger before I head to work tonight.

I figured I might be flooding it, so I quit trying. I really only messed with it for 3-4 min.

Oh, and the one time I got it started for about 3-4 sec was with the choke at around half, but it never started up with no choke.

 

Mine hates full choke unless it's about 40 something degrees outside.

 

it wouldn't start at all with choke though. With full choke on it fired up IMMEDIATELY and then I was giving it a bit of throttle and attempting to take the choke off. Then it died and I'd try again.... did that 3-4 times before I couldn't get anything.

Oh, and when I first turned the fuel on I got a puddle under the bike from the overflow tube. I shut it off right away and cussed a bit then it didn't do that anymore..... weird

 

ok, I only had a few min to look at the bike real quick today before I have to get ready for work....

Again... with full choke it fired right up, but only ran for 2-3 seconds. I couldn't even get it to turn over with no choke. I bench synched the carbs, so I should be good, right? What could be causing this? I just want it to be able to idle, so that I can get the carbs synched and get this thing functional. IRRITATING!

Oh, and I discovered a few more things. the blinker relay doesn't work, no big deal..... and I knew the headlights didn't work and wasn't worried about it, but today I had the headlights switched on for some reason and they turn on when the motor turns over. After they click on they stay on until you turn the switch off. Well, the aux light works with the switch after it comes on, but I just thought it was odd that the headlight doesn't come on until the motor turns over. Whatever..... I just want this thing to run.

I'll be searching all over the forum tonight from work to see if anyone else got good advice for a similar issue, but feel free to chime in and help me out

 

The headlight doesn't come on until the motor's running to save juice from the battery.

How are your float levels? I didn't reread the thread.

 

aaaaaaahhhhhh......that makes sense. GOOD, I'm glad it's not another issue

Float levels.... I actually didn't check them Probably should have, huh? I'm guessing you think they could be set too low?

 

I hate carbs. I just want to send them to someone and have them go through them for me.

Chacal - do you provide that service

 

If you messed with the idle mixtures it could be that they are too lean and it would cause the bike to not idle. I had that problem that she wouldn't idle unless the choke was on all the way, and turning the idle screw up to where it would idle it threw the carbs way out of wack. When I started my project i had never done carbs before. It took a lot of patience and thought. Read this it may help, or maybe not.

http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=14751.html

 

This is just payback. The first time I ever touched carbs was with my gsxr 1100. Everyone was saying that I would need to fool with them 5-10 times ....on, off, tweak...repeat. I cleaned them, put a jet kit in, put them back in, synched them with a motion pro tool, and haven't touched them since

I DID mess with the synch screws as well as the idle adjustment screw as per the bench synch thread....

http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic ... synch.html

 

Did you change the idle screws?