While still waiting on what to do with my 350 motor and what else breaks in my fucking house, I'm trying to get at least one motorcycle running.
I had been chasing my tail on the carbs for 2 weeks now, they've been off the bike 3 times. I always say assume nothing with old bikes... I finally found the culprit on Sunday - the carb slides were installed backwards on #3 & #4 by the previous owner. Fucking hell.
While trying to figure out why the bike ran like shit, this happened. The bolt just... backed out. Why? Who knows. Mysteries of old motorcycles. I'm going to run it back in with loctite, give it a couple of ugga duggas and replace the cover as soon as I can find one - I guess I got nothing to lose here, worst case something else is wrong that caused this and the motor has to come out. Also have a new muffler on the way that will bolt in properly.
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I had been chasing my tail on the carbs for 2 weeks now, they've been off the bike 3 times. I always say assume nothing with old bikes... I finally found the culprit on Sunday - the carb slides were installed backwards on #3 & #4 by the previous owner. Fucking hell.
While trying to figure out why the bike ran like shit, this happened. The bolt just... backed out. Why? Who knows. Mysteries of old motorcycles. I'm going to run it back in with loctite, give it a couple of ugga duggas and replace the cover as soon as I can find one - I guess I got nothing to lose here, worst case something else is wrong that caused this and the motor has to come out. Also have a new muffler on the way that will bolt in properly.