shavenYak

Oh hey I missed this

Currently watching the terminator. Sarah Conner rides a pretty sweet gold scooter..

Could always go for skinnier seats like mr2 to avoid faffing about for clearance? Sw20 ones fit in my alto no worries

Looks schmick Al! Always wanted to yellow paint one pair of the headlights on the hiace. Good work!

Nope, I'm in newlands. Blasted through happy valley today though, while on the distinguished gentlemans ride. Was a good day out! Approx 200 bikes riding together is quite the experience!

Yeah just gradual drop in engine speed until stalled as per video. I have this problem while riding too, quite often once I come to a stop I have to give it a little throttle to keep it running. have rocked the bike side to side while running and that doesn't seem to affect it.

Nah she's been nice and dry. It's gotta be carb related, surely. If it was electrics, like something shorting out it would die at any revs, right?

Nah doesn't have a stand kill switch.

Been riding this every chance I get for the last few weeks. Really enjoying it! Joe and I rode to Makara the other day which was a great ride with some sweet twisty bits. Forgot to take photos though. Bought myself some leathers, now just on the hunt for some boots and gloves. Discovered an interesting issue tonight while idling warming up for an oil change: engine is happily idling, but when the bike is rocked the engine stalls. Have tried it with the gas tank off running from a bottle in case it was something to do with that. If I hold the throttle open at around 3000rpm it will still die when rocked? But not if its around 5000+ Any ideas?

I made it home ok guys

Oh yup yup I will be there

I saw peet on the motorway in Wellington and gave him a thumbs up. Car looks good in motion. As does pete.

Went for a little night ride just now and if not just for safety I need some bike pants purely for the cold! Where's the heater on this thing?

Shheeeeet yeah will take you up on that, might come see you on Sunday if you're around? Pm me your digits brah

yep. Very keen to get out of the city for a little jaunt. Once I get some protective gear lets do this thing.

Yeah it's definitely the fastest thing I've ever owned including cars - so still have a healthy amount of fear and respect for it. Will be careful. Still haven't told mum that I've bought a bike...

Bike is now legal! Had a good ride around the hutt today under sunny blue skies. Bike still wouldn't idle lower than 2.5k which was pretty annoying after a while. Got home and tracked down a little vacuum leak around one of the carb boot. Screws on the jubilee clamps were pretty munted so I couldn't tighten them enough. Swapped them out for some nice fresh stainless ones. Fixed the leak, but idle problem still there. After some headscratching and removing and reinstalling the carbs for the umpteenth time (I'm getting good at it now), I finally realised what the problem was... ... The choke lever adjustment screw on the handlebars was out. So, felt pretty dumb but also super stoked everything is now running good. Now I gotta get some pants, boots and jacket and go on some epic rides! http://youtu.be/FWmH9ylqYYQ

Great success!! Big thanks to kicker who came round and helped out with the carbs. The thing that was tripping me up was the little sprung pin on the end of the float valve needed to slot into the tang so the float not only pushed but also pulled on the valve. Pretty obvious in hindsight. Rigged up a pretty flash auxiliary fuel tank from a dishwashing liquid bottle, and fired up the bike. Ran pretty well if a bit smoky, but we couldn't get the idle to sit any lower than 2500. Pulled the carbs off again and tweaked the butterfly balance between the two, and then we fiddled with the pilot screws but still wouldn't idle low. Apart from that, engine sounds great, nice fast throttle response and the smoke had cleared up. Kicker was the Guinea pig/crash test dummy and was happy with how the bike was behaving. So I chucked on my new helmet and went for a ride! Feels great to ride, I'm getting used to the gears, and bike goes and sounds awesome. Spent around an hour riding around but I should probably go get a wof tomorrow before I get into trouble.

Yeah bottom of float to gasket surface seems to be the standard way. Spec for these carbs is 22mm, at the moment the tang makes contact at around 26mm so it's way too low.. What's the best way to bend these things? I feel like I need to bend it inward so far that I have to bend the other metal tab as well. I guess I'll just bend away and see how it goes - weird that they're both so far out and the bike still ran quite happily when treggo owned it..

So I've had the carbs apart, cleaned everything, reassembled - bike won't run. One thing I didn't check was the float height. So the problem I have now is I can't work out where exactly I'm supposed to be measuring to on the floats themselves. The workshop manual I'm using is just too photocopy spec. I know i measure from the gasket mating face on the carb body, but do I measure to the very bottom (when carb is right way up) of the float? There's a seam right in the middle of the float which seems like it's in approximately the right place.. Oh and I think I've discovered why there was a second CDI wired in - apparently these bikes have a 11k rev limiter, and by using one CDI per coil you get past this. According to these guys anyway: http://retro.400greybike.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3803 Purely academic at this point since one of the CDIs doesn't go anymore. I'm happy enough with 11k anyway!

oh god what am I doing

Yeah had another go this morning, seemed to go a bit better. Once it warmed up it started doing some weird stuff where engine speed would go up on its own to about 3000rpm for like 5 seconds. Did manage to get it to rev over 7000, so yeah probably a bunch of crap in the carbs. Was hoping not to have to touch them but yeah might pull them apart for a clean up. Spent the rest of the day reassembling swing arm, rear brake and electrics. Still got quite a bit to do and a big pile of screws and bolts with no real order. Lesson learnt for next time. Edit: here's a video

So I swapped both coils out for a new pair, along with a new set of leads. Had to space out the mounting holes for the coils which were about 10mm too narrow. chucked the fuel tank on and tried to start the bike. Took a while to get it to fire - the choke doesn't feel like it's doing much and I ended up just using my palms over the carbs to choke it. Seemed to work and the engine fired up! revs fairly quickly but doesn't seem to want to get over 5000 rpm. Not sure what's happening, if maybe the cdi is a bit buggered and that's why they piggy backed the other one on? Will take a video of the engine running tomorrow.

Fuel tank seal has been done. Basically spent a whole day doing another round of marine clean, then a good 2 hours of metal ready. Spent a fair amount of time drying it out with the heat gun. End result, meh it actually looks a bit thin at the bottom where all the rust was, and I can see an exposed rust flake towards the top of the tank, so who knows, maybe I didn't dry it enough.. Will run as is and see how we go. Pre-sealant: Post-sealant: And while this was happening... Stripped some more stuff, gave the bum end a good clean to repaint some surface rust. However as I was cleaning up the swingarm, I suddenly noticed what looks to be a big old dent in one side of it. Would this be wof fail?

If the black/yellow and the white have been switched at the cdi the coils will be round the wrong way and will fire at the wrong time - or do both coils fire at once?