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Hope none of you got taken...........

Yeah, I should have mentioned a slight bit of something to relube what may be dry cylinder walls.............also just before start, kill the kill switch and rotate with a strong battery to prime the ...

Look for dirt in the open holes. Get it running and hot and then change the oil shortly after (use junk oil). I'd turn it over a few times in the CORRECT DIRECTION first.

Should be fine. I've done ...

Gotta look at that stuff.

You have a drum brake SA instead of disc. The drum anti-rotation arm attaches under the arm on those.

Yes, but do they use any other high evaporative like MTBE, ethanol not the only thing used. Other chemicals can promote super fast evaporation to clog carbs too.

I always found it much easier to do with smaller bikes, the thought of flipping 500+ lbs. backward on oneself is a sort of psychological limiter there for me.

On the '2 stroke crossers' I could dr ...

I too spent a lot of time cutting crank scrapers to just the exact profile.

This...

'This was a matter of life or death for the big (Oldsmobile) motors running 5500 RPM.'

...is curious and n ...

Only works at braking, why it seems to not have any effect.

Mine from the day bike was new was lopsided at that gap. It bothered me enough that I simply jacked up one side of the seat by gluing a thick washer right under one of the rear sucker feet that seat s ...

Hard to put worth on it as it is rare and Kerker has gone sky high for the ones you can get. Of course having a buyer at hand helps.

Mine was crunched under the 4 pipe join before collector, I pus ...

The Kerker for sure has a nice baffle that can pick you up a chunk of low and mid, I got one and modded it. I don't care for the V&H baffle at all, it kills noise but does little else.

How do they determine if bike is stolen with a policy like that? Here no way can you do that. The original owner if wanted to can come back to claim it was stolen, it's happened and been in the news.

They may have changed things but I have yet to see the electric gauge that can pick up very slight needle quiver that shows when you are running slight bits of air in the system. Mechanical, even the ...

Oil pressure and mechanical gauge only, electric sucks for that. You can actually deduce the oil temp from the pressure..........

Use stripper on the paint to remove some of it and then blast, you'll save bundles in media cost, the paint dust wrecks the media.

You MUST use googles as well with external blasting, don't ask ho ...

The idea is that grounding the plug wires removes load off the spark units, some brands and cars say can pop the electronic boxes if the spark is trying to jump through infinity. I've had a crap rider ...

So we'd like to think..........but then after that comes the real world. Are you prepared to strip it back down to verify they have done it? Don't own a Volkswagen, do you?

You begin to see the pr ...

The OEM windings are glued layer to layer all the way down to the core, I understand a lot of rewinders do not do that. They only glue the outside of the whole coil.

To be expected but far better than nothing..............

How long is 'long'?

He does not say.

ALL electronic ignitions stretch dwell out much longer, he could just have been reading that. Dwell with no cam ramps and points to worry about floating sim ...

Closer is better on the pulsers, the closer makes the impulse stronger. Of course you can't make contact. Works the same on any magnetic impulse proximity sensor out there. I used to do it on the chai ...

Changing up carbs on a stock engine=no man's land for many.

It can be done but it also separates the doers from the wannabe doers as well, that don't leave very many standing at the last.

I have an impact too but it gets nowhere near any carbs I work on. Even when I was paid to do it I never used them. But then I don't break parts either. Ever.

OP, you are terribly lost if the engi ...

I wouldn't worry too much about 15.1 volt, that is 15 basically and all cars pretty much charge up to 15 nowadays and battery still the same. The old days of 13.6 or so charging are gone with all the ...

That's handy, where does one come up with a small gauge like that?

I misspoke, you are right genesound, the alts are full wave. I'm getting old and losing my sh-t. However all pics I've seen on these DOHC show the stators to be wound in wye rather than delta, the ide ...

Not me. I should probably pick up an electricians' book.

How many of the rotors you've run across are simply wound without being glued down other than maybe just on the outer surface?

The OEM i ...

Genesound is right about more wire making more resistance, but I was only talking a small bit more. I've wondered about going up on the size slightly too. The one OEM I've stripped used .028" dia ...

Only a maniac or a butcher uses any sort of hammer impact on a carb.

The VB51 is the thing, a standard VB Keihin carb it sounds like. The VB is the basic carb type and anything here you find would cover it other than the jet numbers themselves.