06-04-2008, 10:55 PM
It ran tonight! On all four, too. I had installed the idle jets for #1 and #2 in the wrong spot. There was something fishy with the points too, but I cleared it up and set the timing/points gap. I checked the valve clearances, and did a compression test. got 160 psi on three cylinders, but 125 on one of them. I think the rings just need to seat properly in it. One of the float valves wasn't seating, so I lapped it with some lapping compound and it cleared up. The carbs still leak a bit though, I'll probably put some hylomar on the float needle valves and the float bowl gaskets, and spend a little more time setting the float height.
One of my coworkers is bringing in some handlebars tomorrow, I'm gonna try and make some clubman bars for it, and make a better headlight bracket. I've also got a line on some new mufflers, I know someone with a pair of Dunstall Decibel mufflers, one with baffles, and one that's just a straight megaphone.
I also made and installed a braided steel front brake line today. It's money. Only thing is, with the F4i master cylinder and the single piston caliper, the brakes are kinda binary. Very stiff lever. I guess that's what happens when you use a master cylinder designed to operate 8 pistons and have it operate 1.
I'm gonna try and make a wiring harness too. Theres a bunch of extra crap in this one I don't need, I want to simplify it a bit. Really I just need it to power lowbeam, high beam, taillight, brake light, coils, and starter. When I'm doing that I'm gonna make a battery box and stick everything in the tool tray under the seat.
Down the road I'd like to make a cafe-style single seat.
Another coworker might have a line on a rolling chassis with rearsets, tank and some other stuff. I'd like to have another frame and swingarm that I can add bracing and gussets to, the stock frame seems pretty noodly.
One of my coworkers is bringing in some handlebars tomorrow, I'm gonna try and make some clubman bars for it, and make a better headlight bracket. I've also got a line on some new mufflers, I know someone with a pair of Dunstall Decibel mufflers, one with baffles, and one that's just a straight megaphone.
I also made and installed a braided steel front brake line today. It's money. Only thing is, with the F4i master cylinder and the single piston caliper, the brakes are kinda binary. Very stiff lever. I guess that's what happens when you use a master cylinder designed to operate 8 pistons and have it operate 1.
I'm gonna try and make a wiring harness too. Theres a bunch of extra crap in this one I don't need, I want to simplify it a bit. Really I just need it to power lowbeam, high beam, taillight, brake light, coils, and starter. When I'm doing that I'm gonna make a battery box and stick everything in the tool tray under the seat.
Down the road I'd like to make a cafe-style single seat.
Another coworker might have a line on a rolling chassis with rearsets, tank and some other stuff. I'd like to have another frame and swingarm that I can add bracing and gussets to, the stock frame seems pretty noodly.
horizontally opposed>*